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Why is music so loud in restaurants? (Serious) (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago by JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I got my hearing professionally checked today and all is normal. But I have difficulty hearing people I am dining with, talking in restaurants. Is it me, or is the music just too damn loud?!

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hmm. Processing disorders are a thing.

Some restaurants do have damn loud music, though. Most don't where I live but that's probably regional.

[–] arty 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Everyone keeps mentioning them, but no one links to the information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder

One of potential symptoms is indeed "Difficulty hearing in noisy environments"

I have a nice workaround: good earplugs. They lower the overall volume, and all of a sudden I can understand spoken words again. Too bad they actually increase for me the sound of my own chewing.

[–] Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My work was evacuated once for a fire alarm (false) and we all kinda stood around waiting for the firemen to come and let us back in. While we waited we chatted. But I realised that I couldn't understand what the people four feet away from me were saying. I could hear the noises coming from their mouths, but I couldn't understand them. When the alarm was switched off, I could understand them.

Brain is weird.

[–] arty 1 points 3 months ago

Weird and impressive!

The article for this condition in German Wikipedia mentions that there’s a training which can help, but I have not looked into this yet

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago

Thank you. I would have linked it if I realised.