Psychology
Going temporarily deaf from extremely loud noises
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Auditory fatigue, or a temporary threshold shift, happens when you expose your ears to a booming concert or machinery. To protect themselves, your auditory hair cells hunker down and temporarily lower their sensitivity. You step out into the quiet night, and everything sounds entirely muffled. It is your ears' desperate, temporary defense mechanism to stop you from permanently ruining your own hearing.
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