About Music and Ears

I´ve always loved music, and I´m always trying to listen new music. Nietzsche said it already "The world would be a mistake if there were no music". And that´s the reason why I´m really thankful to the auditory system. It is wonderful how sounds can be interpreted by our brain, and it is something really important in our every-day lives, we can communicate by emitting sounds and hearing them, there are of course other types of languages, such as hands-languages. We can also hear when a car is coming across the street, so we can stop our walking. Surely, when humans were not civilized yet, hearing had a great importance, because they could hear when a predator was close to them, they could hear when babies were crying, when someone was angry, when someone was happy. The beginnings of our social structure was built based in our hearing sense, also in other senses and factors, but this is my blog, so I can say whatever I want to say. 

The auditory system is located in our head, there we have our ears, which receives a sound wave. The wave reach the eardrum, which passes the vibration to the middle ear bones. Then, the vibration goes to the cochlea, in which there are lots of tiny hairs. They change the vibration into electrical signs and then, they send them to the brain. There, our brain interprets these sings as sounds. And that is how do we hear.

I'm definitely not an expert in anatomy or physiology, but I think that the size of this system is not defined, It depends of the person. You can call me fool, but that's what I think.

As I said before, I love listening to music, but one of my worst sins is that, when I listen to music, I use to turn all the volume up. And it's horrible what I do, and I know it´s horrible, and it´s even worst when I listen to metal or rock music. Also when I listen to opera, or orchestra classical music, it hurts, and I feel how it hurts, but I like to do so. It´s wrong, and I have to stop doing it.

There are lots of diseases we an acquire and make our auditory system feel sad and bad, such as infections, inner ear partial or total damage, loss of our capacity to hear, problems with our middle ear. Otitis, mastoiditis, nonsyndromic deafness, and some others. That´s why we should be aware of our auditory health, by keeping our eras dry, stop using cotton swabs (yes I know, it sounds really not hygienic, but, that´s what google sais, and who am I to disagree with google?) and keeping our stress levels low. So we can keep listening to the most wonderful of all them fine arts, music.