• JoJo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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    1 month ago

    It’s a curse

    It puts my brain to 150% processing and I just wanna listen to one conversation and aaaaaa

    Even when I can’t listen to the dozens of voices due to them being nearly inaudible it still enables the part of my brain to try to decode them, so about 75% is used to try to listen to words that I don’t even wanna listen to

    This is why ANC is heaven

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      1 month ago

      Oh man. Mine actually is able to listen and understand each conversation. My brain will not only listen but mentally join that conversation. Lord help me if a few people in earshot are having technical problems with their phones or computers. I will literally pull my phone out in the middle of dinner with a friend and start finding the solution for multiple people’s problems while my friend is like WTF, you were just telling me about your day and abruptly stopped talking and went into your phone.

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          1 month ago

          I can’t do noise cancelling because then I get in my head about not being aware of my surroundings, and what if I needed to hear something in order to not die? Hey, it’s possible.

        • bamfic@lemmy.world
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          30 days ago

          Oh cool. those bose headphones saved my ass when was forced to work in open cafeteria style tech offices