1. Watch the video or better, listen to it with your eyes closed. Point those Alien Ears.
2. Write down 3 to 10 sounds in your workbook (no wrong or right here) continue to write down the sounds you hear in your daily life in your workbook .
3. Extra: watch the video again and reflect on what’s happening when your eyes and ears co-operate.
4. The rest of this day: listen to every sound as if it’s the first time you hear it. Try to remain in that open state of wonder.

In lesson 3 we’re continuing Super Sensing our Superpowers. This time, use your ears. This is not about the quality of your hearing, mine is not what it once was, spend way too many hours dancing in very loud places. Can’t hear the crickets chirp anymore.

But this is about really taking the time to hear the ‘small seemingly unimportant sounds and noises’.

I live in a very quiet rural area. But in summer it can be very noisy due to the harvest (farmers are usually in a hurry and drive their tractors way past the speed limit). We make silly jokes about farmers ruining our silence. Because noise feels almost alien to us.

I used to live in the center of Amsterdam. If you live in a large city you are used to the roar that goes on almost 24/7. But every year on May the 4th at 8 PM, it’s completely silent in the center of Amsterdam because we commemorate those who died in the Second World War. It’s a deafening silence.

We tend to get used to sounds (or the absence of too many sounds) Get Unused. Live in wonder about what you hear. Be curious!