Ok. When I listen for changes in the audio playback, and perceive something, I always "make" my wife find the same before I'll believe it. Sometimes she says "nothing" (I don't hear a change), and in such a case I always force here to mention at least
something (yea, it's close to slavery here !). Next there always *will* be answer (may even take 30 minutes - and notice I never A-B anything here, so it is all from fresh music), and so far it never happened that we both did not perceive the same. Allright ...
Day before yesterday something occurred to me, and today it occurred to me again. This time though I thought it couldn't be a coincidence. So I aksed the coorporation of my wife for this.
Yea, it will be very different from what you expect ...
Listen, learn, read on.
Here's the literal conversion :
P: Can I ask you a serious question ? I expect a most serious answer too.
W: Sure.
P: If you listen right now, what do hear otherwise from other days ? So, you can listen right now.
W: Mwah ... ehh ... nothing.
P: But you *have* to find something. If you can't find anything, just mention something you can make up afterall.
W: No really, nothing.
P: ?
W: But there isn't anything !
P: ??
W: Okay, that it is quiet outside apart from the rain.
P: Huh ?
W: Yes. It is quiet outside.
P: Yeah, but quietness you don't hear different from other days when it is quiet.
W: But there is no wind.
P: Come on now. If you say "it is quiet outside apart from the rain" this is not what is really in your mind.
W: Still it is.
P: No, please, this is nothing for a good answer. What did you really hear when you though of saying what you said ?
W: Ehh, that I hear rain ?
P:
RIGHTSo here you have it. I am sitting where I must have been sitting for hundreds and hundreds of hours, and undoubtedly it has been raining before while at the same time there's no wind. And I can tell you, some rain is falling in this country.
But day before yesterday I noticed I heard dripping I didn't hear before, and even looked whether it could be dripping inside somewhere. But no.
Today I noticed it again, and again I was looking for how it could be that suddenly it was so apparent. The Schumann device was already in my mind ...
There is no question in my mind that this is what the Schumann resonator is doing to you. Yep, to YOU. Not to your music equipment, but just to you. From the conversation you can learn how sneakily it works, and how someone *is* able to tell "a" change, without realizing what the change actually is. Of course this is related to how one thinks about stuff and how to set your mind - and formulate about it. Also you saw that it took some effort to begin with, to even realize *that* something is there. My wife didn't notice it, while actually she could with some force.
The funny thing is of course that this isn't related to audio at all, but that it somehow has the data in it for exploring what is actually happening. So, do we hear more silence and therefore better the rain ? Do we just hear better the rain ? everything ?
This is what I tried to explain in the earlier post, when I didn't have the rain subject in my mind yet. But similar happens to listening to music;
If I hear that rain better, is that related to concentration ? how can it. I concentrate on e.g. the typing I am doing. Or am I not concentrated on the typing as much ? Nah, that would be strange.
I also
think it now is more easy for me to quickly form the sentence I want to say, before saying it. Oh, I can do that always, but it is if all goes more easy now. Not a word wrong. No ehhs, and ehmms. But not sure on this one yet.
Ok, for now I say that your brain is capable of separating better. Think of a woman who often can talk and at the same time can do another thing, while a man can't (of course the man says that the woman makes a mess of everything this way, but still).
One last MOST pretentious thing for now :
Yesterday I had some visitors over, and I noticed an "over" sensing of understanding things, listening to audio in general. If you look at the conversation with my wife again, normally (and very generally of course) with random people the conversation will go similar. The answers will be there in the end, but they have to be drawn out. Not so yesterday. In each of the occasions the answers were immediate and and agreed upon by both persons. Of course this is about the persons themselves whom I didn't (and actually don't) know, but still it came to me as not normal.
I can be wrong, but additionally I heard sayings like "wow, how easy it is to listen to audio anomalies the way you do after some small examples" (this is hard to put in a sentence, but I hope you feel what I want to express here). Well, as surpisingly it may have been to those people, as surpised I was myself to be able to make clear things so quickly.
You can call this stupid talk, or even "trying to find things", but firstly I am not like the latter, and secondly I always try to think about everything (and next have an opinion).
Right ... So I thought I was finished with this post. Want some addtional voodoo ? here it is :
(but I really think this is unrelated ... still ...
Before pressing "Post" I walked outside to have a zip on a cigar (mr Schumann didn't teach me yet how to quit smoking).
Walked back in after that, and closed the door behind me. Next I was three steps away from the door, and suddenly halted. What !!?? I heard the tingeling thing on the door keep on tingelinging forever ! ... well *that* never happend before !
Of course I immediately thought about this post and Schumann. But no, something else was going on ...
Look at the picture below; What you see is that thing and it hangs sideways against the glass. This allows the bars to move more freely compared to when it is in it's normal natural position (which is 90 degrees twisted). So, at closing the door, somehow the thing managed to get into this position, which I could hardly do my self by hand ! It just won't stay in this position, unless by precise coincidence. Yet it did it, and it never never happened before.
As said, most probably unrelated voodoo. But still ...
More to come ?
Peter
