The Ghost Whose Breath I Can't Hear
A fair warning, this blog post may trigger existential thoughts (but will provide you with plenty of insight on the struggle of living in my brain on a daily basis)! I live by one truth, and it is that there is not a single truth in this world, and yes maybe that statement is both dramatic and ironic but i believe in it greatly. Ackerman speaks on how sound is registered and processed in our body by sound waves, and how animals and humans vary in the sound waves they have access to. Say you find yourself next to an elephant... they are hearing things that you do not have the capability of hearing- they hear at frequencies 20 times lower than humans! And while, yes, that is so awesome- how absolutely and simultaneously horrifying is it!? How many things exist around us that we simply cannot hear, how many things will we never know are making noise? There is a world of discomfort in the idea that things are there that we can't experience- what if there are things out there experienc...