Why don’t our ears get tired from hearing sound all day, like our eyes get tired from looking at things?
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Take it from someone with four boys… They get tired. I grew up an only child and had a ton of free time on my hands alone. I spent my youth building models and laying with Legos in silence. I can still work in my garage with something to do for days without sound and I’d be perfectly happy.
I love my boys, but sometimes I still need to excuse myself just to detox from all the noise.
Your eyes get tired because muscles in your eyes are constantly working to move your lens in and out, focusing on what you’re looking at. There are no muscles required to hear anything
You’d be surprised how much the noise environment can contribute to overall fatigue and poor mood in people. As a society, we’ve just become very unaware how it’s affecting us because it’s constant. And people who bring up how the noise environment affects them are seen as pariahs so no one talks about it.
Eyes get tired if you focus on things like computer screens, phones, and reading, i.e. you’re constantly looking at something up close and blinking with reduced frequency.
We evolved in an outside world where we spent most of the time walking through the woods, not focused at anything in particular, and looking at longer distances.
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