SILENCE, SOUND AND SMELL

Sometimes the silence in an awfully big city is completely surreal and unreasonable and you ask yourself: Is this normal? How can a city of 20 million people be silent on a Saturday night when the weather is as nice as it is in autumn or during the day when everyone is supposed to be going to work or is working or in the evening when there are supposed to be a lot of people in cars going from one part of the city to another. 

Or you live in a multi-storey building with several tenants and you never hear anyone go out or come in the front door, nor when you're at home do you hear anyone in the bathroom showering or flushing the toilet or pacing the rooms, even though the walls aren't that thick and when you're in one room you can just hear the noise coming from the other room. So how is it? 

How is it that there is no soundproofing in the walls, almost no insulation and you can't hear the noise from the street, even though you live right next to the street which is quite busy. So it's interesting 😲 how the sound spreads in this part of Istanbul. Or rather, it's interestingly not. By the way, you know that the sound frequencies that humans hear with their ears are heard by other animals, but the sound frequencies that other animals hear (e.g. bats - ultrasound or whales, elephants - infrasound) are not heard by humans. However, evidence has been found that humans do respond in some way to these sounds. ☹ 

There are many ways to get sick from these sounds. E.g. headaches or not sleeping, unexplained nervousness or tension, high blood pressure, nausea, dizziness etc. So even though you can't hear and even though you are not aware of it, you have senses for these sounds that are responding to the infrasound and the ultrasound, although you can't hear them with your ears.

Compared the smog in the city to the air in your home (where you don't smoke and live a perfectly normal everyday life), feels like a spring breeze. 😄 You feel sick to your stomach and you have a headache and everything that was clean and fragrant in the morning stinks by the evening. 

Also when in the evening you open the window for fresh air and look out through it, it's like a mediocre horror movie. The lights are on in the flats and the TVs are on but there is no a single person sitting in front of the TVs or moving in the flats. This is the Elm street 💀so you hope Freddy Krueger is not around. Spooky!👻 At this point some very scary deep music would come on, slowly speed up and then something unexpected and scary would happen.