Are we getting deaden and numb by digital noise?

A while ago, I recorded a documetary of Ryuichi Sakamoto. He is one of my favourite musicians and I like his last CD “Playing the piano” very much.

Sakamoto lives in New York City. The Interviewer asked him – what he thinks about increasingly digital noise we are surrounded  with – like mobile phones, the sound of the computers, in buildings, at platforms, in the streets etc.  Have that noises changed – or will it change our sense ?  He answered “because of beeing surrounded by so omnipresent digital sounds we will get deaden and numb. Once we have the chance to be somewhere quiet – the quiet will get that exciting – like a wow effect -  just then we will recognize that we are always surrounded by those noises.  Especially in cities we are surrounded all the time by noises – our brain, ears and eyes get information all the time. Too many information!”

I like what he said very much… A while ago I experimented a similiar situation. I had a very stressful time – and when I went to bed – I thought – something is wrong here… I couldn’t recognize what it was – but after a while I noticed that there was just silence… I heard nothing at all -  it felt so good and peaceful. I was wondering when it was the last time I heard nothing at all. It must be a long time ago.

I guess it is getting harder and harder to de-energize ourself in our time . We are surrounded by noise – information – stress – that we are loosing the sense  to enjoy the small moments in our daily life – to listen and watch sensibly. We tend to unconsciously reset our minds and forget what we have seen or listen. We all should take some “time off” ever day – get back a sense to enjoy the silence and peace that our enery could flow again.

Ryuichi Sakamoto with “energy flow”

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