Reactions to Different Sounds
I was just listening to this slow music and thinking about my sound investigations. At that instant this loud cacophonous and alarming sound of my ringtone starts ringing and startles me. The volume was in its highest level so this made me kind of jump out of my seat. My heart was pounding and at the same time I was laughing because of how fast I reacted. That encouraged me to later investigate reactions of human beings towards different sounds. The main question that I kept on asking myself was why do loud sounds scare or excite people and low or slow sounds keep people calm?
While investigating, I learned that it is actually our body’s reaction to the loud or low sounds. Each of us react to every kind of sound that is around us. Basically, our mind takes time to mark the cause of the loud or low sound, so the fast reaction occurs from our body. It doesn’t really expect what happens so it reacts to defend itself out of impulse and natural feeling. I also learned that the rapid action of mine got my blood circulating and speeding up the rush of “adrenaline” throughout my body. This happens to everyone when they are under stress and it might increase their hearth rate, sweating and increase of metabolism.
