why are very high pitched sounds more unpleasant to human ears?
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Things that are high pitched are more compressed; they have more motion. More speed. That increased speed is exactly like when you have a pain somewhere. Your nerves are basically overloading (your nerves are in motion themselves and the pain feeling you get is also in motion *but faster* freaking them out and you feel the sensation) and you interpret it as pain.
High pitched thing are of a motion (speed) that is too fast for your ears, causing pain.
For comparison, think of how staring at the sun injures the eyes. The sun gives out “high pitched” compressed, very fast rays of light. Exactly the same thing. Your eyes cannot take the speed and strength of the sun and they get overloaded and you get injured as a result.
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