DailyJim: Sound environments

April 27, 2022 |  Podcast |  |  , ,

DailyJim: Sound environments

April 27, 2022 |  Podcast |  |  , ,

6:07 minutes

In this episode, I talk about how different sound environments may affect me (and us) emotionally, as I listen to some sounds around me.

Transcript
Hello everyone welcome to another DailyJim. Today is It is Wednesday 27 April 2022 and it is about nine pm here in the eastern eastern daylight time. Oh man, time changes a lot. It's yes, here and here in michigan And it's about 39°F outside a couple days ago is about 80°F. For those of you who are in Celsius it's cold. It's cold, it's maybe three Celsius. Something around there, it's cold out right now. It's not normally this cold the end of april or at least I don't remember it normally being this cold at the end of april, but I also can't remember who wins major sporting events the year before. So maybe it is normally this cold out. Okay, today, I didn't know what to talk about, basically what I'm trying to do now is I'm trying to record this on the road. And one thing I've really dreamed of being able to do is have the ability to record a podcast or record kind of these short episodes, but to do it from anywhere. Um so far I'm getting close. So this is possible for me to record it on the phone and upload it and then do some magic behind the scenes where it could get uploaded to the podcast with the music and everything. Boom, boom bam in just a few seconds, but you know, I'm sitting here in a parking lot and what I'm realizing is that it's quite hard to find a quiet space. Sometimes I sit here and you know, I'm in the supermarket parking lot and then you hear the guy moving the shopping carts or trolleys as you call them in England, I believe trolleys, and um Mhm and then they hear the plane that goes over and then maybe there's a car that's pulling out, and it's very, very hard sometimes to find a quiet space and just have me reflect a little more on just. The impact of sound. You know, trying to live in a place. For example, I'm sitting in a place that's right next to the train station, train tracks coming through right now, it's very quiet, but when a train comes through that itself can be quite loud, but then imagine, the train blowing the horn or the whistle that can get really loud. There are apartment buildings right next to the train tracks and you know the train comes through that could rattle the windows, it could even shake some things in the apartment. And what kind of impact does that have on us while we're awake? Yes, but also while we're asleep um just throughout the day, constantly being subjected to different sounds and noises and. Going to a restaurant or going to a store and they're being music in the background or just people talking constantly and what is it like when it's just really quiet. Speaking of quiet, there's another plane going overhead. Am I near an airport? What's going on? And so, you know, I think about it in my perspective, right? So I think I've been lucky in the last couple of years and that I've been at home at my parents house and my parents live in a very quiet suburb of Detroit, and to be able to sleep at night and know that there's not going to be a sound that's likely to wake me up, whether it's a plane outside or whether it's a car rumbling outside or whether it's a person shouting coming back from the bar. You know, I've lived in places like this before where you know, you hear the loud motorcycles at night or you hear the drunk person walking down the street and um so I've been very grateful in that respect. In another way, it's funny, I've been in a very quiet place, but sometimes I've had so much anxiety that my head is just so much shouting in my head, not shouting, but so much conversation in my head, that even if I am in a quiet spot, it doesn't necessarily feel quiet or seem quiet. And you know, I wonder for those of you who are listening, if that can relate. You know, do you find that if you're in a quiet spot, sometimes it doesn't feel so quiet or even if you're allowed spot, it doesn't seem so loud, I don't know, it can be quite relative, but just trying to really reflect on this because I think as I was talking with my buddy Caleb in a much longer podcast episode I released today, there can be so many things that contribute to my emotional well being. And then I will latch onto something else and say this is 100% the cause of what's happening to me. This is this is why I'm angry, this is why I'm tired. This is why I'm stressed and not realize that there could be some very subtle things happening like sound that could be making me feel more frustrated or more. A different emotion and not the full thing coming from the other source. So yeah, just to pause and reflect and think about, what are some other things that could be contributing to the way that I'm feeling in the moment and you know, trying to record a podcast while a very loud shopping cart comes through and then a plane and then luckily there's nobody else around to be porn's but goodness that could have been, frustrated, I would have been frustrated, but then maybe I would have gone home and said, oh, I'm so frustrated because of politics. I mean partially, yes, but maybe there's also some underlying factors of the sound environment that I'm in. So with that I'm gonna end at 5 30 ish and trying to keep these around five minutes, I think 10 minutes felt a little long. So hopefully, you know, I'm glad if you listen today and look forward to hearing any perspective your feelings that you have as a result of listening to this and any suggestions, and then we'll keep going. Alright? Thanks everyone.

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