Tinnitus is a supposedly rather common condition which was devastating to me when I developed it. Yes, one can and does learn to ignore it but it’s unquestionably the elephant in the room.
On May 14, 2015, at 9:16 PM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
First time I recall the canceling-out Fred speaks of is noticing that a new refrigerator motor in my family home was quite audible at first, but over time became imperceptible. Until the thermostat would turn it off — at which moment someone might say, sincerely, "What was that?!"
When I was away at college my parents moved to another town nearby. My first time home it was quite noticeable that a plane would fly overhead every 6 minutes. Pretty soon, whenever I was there, the planes became imperceptible — unless I thought about them, in which case they were suddenly there.