What are the harms of headphones?!


Question: What are the harms of headphones?
So i have this problem ... I can't study or sleep without listening to music and my parents keep yelling at me coz they say that they r harmful and i know they r they keep causing me headaches and stuff.. Lol
But what r it's harms?? I'm asking coz my grandma made me...
And what should i do about it??
Thx =)

Answers:

If you are getting headaches, then it is causing some kind of problem or problems. If the pressure of waring headphones causes you to clench your jaw, for example, you could be getting a headache from the clenching and you may also be grinding your teeth (which can prematurely wear them and/or crack them).

Headphones can be easily abused, that is, they can be used at too loud a volume and cause hearing damage. You hear because ear canals are lined with tiny hairs called cilia. The cilia move in response to sound waves, vibrating the muscles that then carry the signals that the brain decodes as sounds.

Intense, long-term, loud, and/or repetitive sounds can cause a kind of fatigue, the muscles just quit responding. You might have noticed this after a loud concert, everything sounded muffled. Eventually your hearing pretty much recovered.

Well, headphones can cause enough dameage long-term that you stop hearing in certain ranges of sound. People subject to repeated or very loud noises have hearing loss, e.g., soldiers have hearing loss due to loud weapon fire.

Tinnitus is another risk, a constant ringing in one or both ears. This can interfere with hearing other sounds, and is difficult to treat.

I don't know if your parents and grandma know this, but listening to music while studying can interfere with your thought patterns. Classical music can increase your thinking skills, especially in math (something about using the same parts of the brain, read R. Kotulak's "Inside the Brain" for more info). Other music will just make it more difficult to think, and instead train your brain to --essentially-- proceed dumbed-down.

Listening to music --via headphones or not-- while sleeping, probably interferes with your sleep patterns and your brain is getting stimulation when it should be resting.

The best thing to do is to train yourself off of it. Listen to classical music when studying. No music when sleeping. And as much as possible, keep the volume of earphones down low enough to hear others in the room. That way you will be able to hear people well into your old age.




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