After becoming aware of these subtleties, you can start to realize where the walls are by the sounds reflecting from them. It's not too hard to be able to stay aligned in the middle of the hallway using this basic echolocation method.
Today I had a bit different experience. In my building, there are several bends in the hallway which are generally more difficult to detect. A right angle turn is easy, because you will suddenly notice a "hollow-ness" off to one side and you will know that the hallway opens up to that side. However my hallway has several 45 degree bends which are much more difficult and I generally am too confused by the signal change to know exactly when the turn is coming. Today as I approached one of these 45 degree hallway bends I kept an open awareness to all of the signals coming in, but tried not to think about it too much. When I did this and approached the bend, I felt a complete shift in my subconscious understanding of where I was. It was as if the whole environment shifted around me. I actually felt the walls and I felt the opening ahead of me simply change position. My body understood the change and almost automatically course corrected.
I'm certain that confidence played a role in being able to ignore some of the details and relax, so it's still important to simply close your eyes and walk around even if you have no sense of echolocation and have no idea what you're listening for. This will help build the confidence and comfort level of walking with your eyes closed and eventually lead to the ability to relax.
Good Luck! Let me know what you find!
11 comments:
thank you, very interesting!
can't wait to try
Glad you're interested. It's pretty amazing when you start realizing the effect.
Hello Tim, I enjoy to meet you, after time practising echolocation. I share with you the same enthusiastic, and empowering vision about human echolocation. This is not exactly a not used human capacity. Unconsciously, we all use it, because there where there are sounds, these always are making echoes. More and more you enjoy echolocation in your everyday life, more aware you are of that, and more different dimensions you are discovering. I am going to read your beautiful and practical blog, and I will say to you more... Thanks
Do you suggest any practice methods that seemed to help you?
You can check out the beginner lessons that are what I've been using to learn how to do echolocation:
http://learnecholocation.blogspot.com/search/label/Lessons%20-%20Beginner
How will human echolocation effect tinnitus?
How will tinnitus effect human echolocation?
That's a good question. I don't have a good answer but I can speculate. Our muscles remain strong when we exercise them. Our mind stays sharp when we utilize it. I have personally been successful in treating my myopia (near-sightedness) by exercising my focus. But the average use of these natural capabilities in our modern world doesn't require the focused and diligent use of them. We don't have to run for our lives, or think critically, or spot enemies from a distance. These are handicaps that we have allowed ourselves to take while entering into this era of abundance. These handicaps allow things like tinnitus to emerge.
It's my belief that with diligent practice and proper maintenance of all of our human capabilities, we can keep them strong enough to fight ailments such as tinnitus. Echolocation can make your hearing so much stronger and more sensitive. I believe that a person who practices echolocation, regularly for many years will be much less likely to be affected by impairments like tinnitus.
not to burst your bubble, but could it not just be that you have started to memorize the layout subconciously?
Don't worry about bursting my bubble. Thanks for putting the question out there. When exploring one's own echolocation capabilities, there are certain elements that can be considered crutches, or variables that need to be factored out. IE: Memorization, sounds of appliances, floor texture, smells, slopes, etc. It's always best to eliminate all of these variables and perform in an environment where none of them supply information that you should not be using.
When attempting to test yourself on how many pull-ups you can do, it would make no sense to do half pull-ups. That would be considered cheating yourself and when you are the only one who cares about the outcome, cheating yourself becomes nonsensical.
Hope that makes sense :)
I notice that each of your responses is thoughtful and considered. It is easy to imagine that you are well-liked by those who know you. Thanks in no small part to YOUR diligence, my sweetie and I are looking forward to jumping right in with daily practice for 100 days or so, at which point we look forward to reporting back to you with any distinctive shortcuts or methods that appear to help the process. Thanks so much for your work. Each page is more fascinating than the last.
Awesome! Thanks for your comment. I'm glad to hear about your commitment, and of course, I would love to hear what you discover. If you'd like to write it down in an article format I'd love to post it on the blog as a guest post. That goes for anyone else out there who wants to share their experiences as well. Maybe I'll write a post about that inviting others to share what they've learned.
I have to apologize for not posting in a while here, but hopefully there is enough content to get someone started or at least pique interest in the subject.
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