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relaxing auditory experience
Saturday, May 27th, 2023 08:48 pmI discovered an amazing and wonderfully relaxing auditory experience.
It requires a cloth headband and a pair of something to cover the ears with under the headband. If you have multiple headbands, try them all out as different kinds give different results.
For the 2nd item, I used an old worn-out contoured foam eye mask cut in half. I had wondered if sewing the halves to the inside of the headband on each side might make good ear-warmers. That was why I shoved them under the headband over my ears to see what it would feel like, and how I discovered the neat auditory effect.
The soft and curved shape of the foam I used seems to contribute to the best effect. If you have something else soft that can cup around the ears, you can try that. As an alternative, I tried folding over a pair of socks and placing them over the ears under the headband - that works too, though it doesn't sound as great and isn't as comfortable.
After putting that on your head, simply run one or more fingers lightly across the headband. You can follow a swirly path around the ears, up to the forehead, around to the back of the head, etc.
It makes a sound like roaring winds in a storm, like the roaring of the ocean, like airplanes taking off or flying directly overhead and then into the distance. You control it all with the path of your fingertips.
I tried wearing over-the-ear headphones, running my finger along the outside of the headphones, but that did not give the same nice effect like the headband.
It requires a cloth headband and a pair of something to cover the ears with under the headband. If you have multiple headbands, try them all out as different kinds give different results.
For the 2nd item, I used an old worn-out contoured foam eye mask cut in half. I had wondered if sewing the halves to the inside of the headband on each side might make good ear-warmers. That was why I shoved them under the headband over my ears to see what it would feel like, and how I discovered the neat auditory effect.
The soft and curved shape of the foam I used seems to contribute to the best effect. If you have something else soft that can cup around the ears, you can try that. As an alternative, I tried folding over a pair of socks and placing them over the ears under the headband - that works too, though it doesn't sound as great and isn't as comfortable.
After putting that on your head, simply run one or more fingers lightly across the headband. You can follow a swirly path around the ears, up to the forehead, around to the back of the head, etc.
It makes a sound like roaring winds in a storm, like the roaring of the ocean, like airplanes taking off or flying directly overhead and then into the distance. You control it all with the path of your fingertips.
I tried wearing over-the-ear headphones, running my finger along the outside of the headphones, but that did not give the same nice effect like the headband.