• toynbee@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I used to almost exclusively listen to any kind of audio through headphones. I had a microphone near my desk configured so that it would pass through the vibration of footsteps directly to my headphones. I was rarely startled, no matter what sordid activity I was undertaking.

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      1 month ago

      I swear the footsteps trigger a Pavlov response in me at this point. I can even tell who it is by the footsteps