Disrupted Harmony: How Unwanted Noise Alters Our Inner World

In today's modern world, sound irritants—whether it's the intrusive snore of a neighbor or other artificial noises—can radically change our emotional perception. They invade our tranquility, disturb our inner balance, and create the feeling that important natural sounds are ceded to empty external information.

Such sounds act like powerful signals that do not carry deep meaning, yet they can provoke immediate irritation. They strip away our calm, forcing us to focus solely on external stimuli and lose the subtle perception of the surrounding world. This results in our emotional state becoming more superficial, gradually diminishing our ability to enjoy the deep and aesthetic aspects of life.

That is why, in conditions of constant noise exposure, it is so important to find moments of silence. By creating a personal space free from an overload of sounds, we allow our consciousness to restore harmony and tune back into the true beauty and depth of the world around us.

How do sound irritants, such as the snore of an unfamiliar neighbor, affect our mood and perception of the world around us?

Sound irritants like the snore of an unfamiliar neighbor can significantly alter our emotional state and distort our perception of the surrounding world because they interfere with the natural function of our senses and disrupt our inner balance. Essentially, such noise is not recognized by our brain as a meaningful signal but as an annoying, intrusive impulse that pushes aside the quiet, natural sounds of nature, impairing our ability to perceive the depth of the surrounding reality.

For instance, one source states that noise is “brazen and disappointing, boastful and empty, self-assured and superficial, relentless and deceitful. One might get accustomed to noise, but one can never enjoy it. It harbors nothing 'spiritual'; it is free of any 'third' spiritual dimension. [...] It lures a person away from their spiritual refuge, from their concentration, calls them out from it, irritates, and binds them, so that they end up living not a spiritual life, but an exclusively external one” (source: 123_614.txt).

Furthermore, it is noted that noise has a conducive impact on how we perceive the external world: “Thanks to noise, the external world becomes significant. It deafens a person, consumes them entirely. It turns them into a materialist; because a materialist is precisely someone who focuses on the external matter and regards it as the only reality. Noise, so to speak, 'blinds' the human ear, its hearing, its perception” (source: 123_614.txt).

Thus, sound irritants like snoring can provoke immediate irritation, disrupt inner silence, and lead a person to increasingly focus on external stimuli. This, in turn, results in a worsening of mood, a diminished ability to deeply perceive aesthetic and subtle aspects of the surrounding world, and a transformation of the emotional state into something more primitive and solely oriented toward external disturbances.

Supporting citation(s):
"Noise is present wherever sound means little or nothing; ... it irritates, binds, so that it lives not a spiritual life, but an exclusively external one." (source: 123_614.txt)

"Thanks to noise, the external world becomes significant. It deafens a person, consumes them entirely. It turns them into a materialist: ... Noise, so to speak, 'blinds' the human ear, its hearing, its perception." (source: 123_614.txt)