Tempus fugit

 Some time ago I posted about hearing - or apparently hearing - sounds that were familiar from before I lost my hearing.  My brain was more of less filling in the blanks, and letting me hear things like the sound of the shower water, or my hairdryer, or the coffee canister plopping down on top of the tea canister:

https://hearinglisten.blogspot.com/2021/01/your-brain-on-nothing-at-all.html

Ah, there, so it appears that I posted that in 2021.  Two years on, I'm taking another shower (not to worry, there were a few in between as well) and I noticed that it's not happening anymore.  No more rushing water in the shower courtesy of my hardworking brain, no more banging cabinet doors.

I know sometimes when things are making noise but it tends to be when there's associated physical bangs, or vibrations like the sonic toothbrush makes, but mostly, my brain has noped out of the business of trying to make me feel normal, just like my ears had already done.

It's not surprising, I guess.  The fact is I didn't hear those sounds.  And while I would argue that my brain actually has LESS to worry about these days than it did before, insofar as I retired in March, apparently it's joining the rest of me in retirement and not bothering with all that stuff.

Can't say I blame it.  I'm enjoying the heck out of being retired.  So if a tree falls in the forest and I'm the only one there, does it make a noise?

Heh.  Well, actually, I do hear one thing yet when I don't have my processors:  my tinnitus.  That's probably not ever going away.  So that philosophical little thought experiment?  I guess a tree falling in the forest sounds like ears ringing.


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