Inspiration & Paradox 20: We listen while asleep

WE LISTEN WHILE ASLEEP

This sounds almost too ridiculous and contradictory, isn’t it? But it’s true; our ears practise selective listening all the time, even when we are sleeping. We basically listen to what we want to hear. Our mind can focus attentively on the softest background noise of the running washing machine, the ticking of the clock, the murmuring of two persons, but can also shut off and not hear the most important point in a lecture, the most ferocious scolding, or the most irritating nagging. Just think for a moment, don’t some of us get awoken suddenly by the slightest noise in the middle of the night, whereas, others could continue to sleep like a log. Precisely - because our ears do selective hearing.