I just thought it was funny how you could be minding your business, then instinctively turn to the side and see someone turning away cause they were looking at you. You probably had no clue someone was looking at you, but you turned your head to look directly at someone who was anyway. How does this happen?
In: Biology
Sound, a human is a large, moving sound absorber as well as producer.
If someone walks between you and ambient noise from that direction the person absorbs and blocks some of that sound.
In quiet spaces we also breathe, movement causes friction between fabrics and skin, shoes tap or squeak.
I have a visually impaired coworker who can tell us apart by our normal everyday sounds. They snap their fingers when approaching a doorway to cue us that they’re there so we don’t just go rushing around the corner and collide.
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