Mindful Doodles #317 –
You know its a slow day when you can hear your clock ticking. When you’re busy, and producing noise, these factors obscure background sounds like a ticking clock. When you are not hit by a constant stream of stimuli, you pay attention to whatever stimulus that you receive. In other words, when the only auditory stimulus is the sound of the clock, you hear it loudly. Your background is so quiet that the clock’s sound becomes amplified.
