i find bird song aly in the morning, very emotionally powerful. And i don't know, i love the idea that it could be part of my evolutionary, you know, past. It doesn't just evoke ma, my evolutionary past. Maybe evokes a time when i was a young boy, and, um, i had a certain feeling about waking up and being excited. The birds were singing more quietly because they weren't shouting above the din.
We undervalue our sense of hearing and we under-appreciate the impact sweet sounds and disturbing noises have on our well-being. Neuroscientist Nina Kraus of Northwestern University talks about her book, Of Sound Mind. Kraus argues that our listening affects our minds and brains in ways we ignore at our peril.