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The stress of non-cummuting may have been offset by the stress of 'OMG there's a pandemic' - a more existential kind of things. The Scientologists have some ve
by jariel 6y ago
The stress of non-cummuting may have been offset by the stress of 'OMG there's a pandemic' - a more existential kind of things.
The Scientologists have some very aggressive rules about 'quiet' around baby and birth, rather extremist, but I think there is something to it.
Even in the womb, we are picking up information - imagine all the noise, hormones, moving around etc. we get from pre-birth to age 1.
I wonder if we should head out to the countryside 3 months before and after.
It would be powerful to see more research into this, because the results could be revelatory not just in relation to birth, but in other life activities.
Edit: I'm not suggesting there's any 'Science' in 'Scientology', rather, it's an expansive and odd cult with just a ton on out-of-the-box thinking, a lot of it initiated way back when treatment of mental illness was actually draconian (ie lobotomies, arbitrary detention, brutal treatment) and there are often 'kernels of truth' in some of these things. The 'quiet during and around birthing' always struck me as something actually rational in a way. Not scientific either but Glenn Gould attributed his musical genius to the fact his mother would play softly while he was still the womb (thus he's literally been playing 'before he was born') and I don't think it's unreasonable at all to think 'maybe there is something to it'. Early childhood events have incredible impact on our lives. I think of it like 'the time when the kernel code is established' and things gone wayward at that level cause idiosyncrasies for the rest of one's life.
- Viliam1234 6y agoI am pretty sure most people don't remember whether someone said something during their birth. Generally, people remember very little from their first years. For a child below 5 years, if you talk about something that happened a year ago, from their perspective it never happened (unless you remind them of the thing repeatedly, in which case they actually remember your repetition, not the original event). Also, the babies themselves contribute some of the noise. The "something is to it" part is probably that you shouldn't play loud metal music in the hospital. Which probably no one does anyway. But being afraid to say a word... that's just superstition.
- jariel 6y ago"whether someone said something during their birth. Generally, people remember very little from their first years" You're missing the context here. Babies don't understand speech, so it's not like words are going to matter. And this has nothing to do with 'memories'. Loud noises, unnatural humming sounds like vehicles, the constancy of it all - is highly unnatural. The possibility that hormones can alter our development is implied in the article, it's not entirely unreasonable that other stressors can affect us as well. We were 'designed' to come into a very quiet world (granted, it was a rugged place) but it was audibly very quiet. Since all of us - adults, children, react in a variety of ways to sound (stressing, soothing etc.) I suggest that audio, in the very earliest phases of one's life can possibly be a stressor.