Hearing While Sleeping: You can stop seeing by closing your eyes, but have you ever wondered what to do if you want to stop listening? In order not to listen, people have pressed their ears with their fingers or they forcefully stuff cotton in them. However, even then we still hear a little bit of outside noise. In such a situation, the question arises that when the sound does not stop even after closing the ears or stuffing cotton, then why do not we hear the sounds around us in sleep? Let’s know the interesting reason behind this…
The ears are always listening!
Actually, the functioning of our brain is such that it works to control all kinds of sensations including seeing and hearing. It is also our brain that decides which sounds, activities and smells to ignore when we are in deep sleep. You might be surprised to know, but our ears work in the same way all the time. The job of the ears is to transmit the sounds to the brain. They keep on doing their work even while sleeping. But the brain does the work of filtering the signals of information and decides whether we have to respond to the voice or keep sleeping.
a great feature
When we are awake, the brain makes memory of the sounds heard, but while sleeping it acts as if we have not heard anything. This is a very strange feature, because it keeps us asleep and when we wake up, we don’t even remember what happened around us while sleeping.
Why does loud noise disturb sleep?
It is not that the mind ignores all the voices. Even though sleep our brain ignores normal and small sounds, but our body’s defense system remains active, which is controlled by the brain itself. That’s why our sleep is disturbed due to the loud noise around us while sleeping and we wake up in a panic.
wakes up when there is sensitive activity
Apart from this, all those sounds to which our mind is already sensitive, such as doorbell or mobile phone, the mind forces us to wake up from sleep after listening to the sounds indicating any danger or warning. Waking up from this, we are able to decide whether we have to take some steps for our safety or not.