Some of the interesting experiences people have when using a new set or hearing aids can vary from individual to individual. Also the severity of hearing loss and the length of time you have suffered a hearing loss can affect your reaction to wearing hearing aids for the first time.
Notice how you personally react to new things like-:
- A new pair of shoes
- A new pair of glasses
Your hearing aids will require a similar breaking in period.
Initially you may be irritated as you are with other new things or you may simply be delighted from the get go and not care about any minor irritation. It is important to notice and be aware of your initial perceptions – for many it is absolute elation at the quality of hearing they may have considered permanently gone.
Your Brain
Getting your brain used to sounds again.
We know hearing loss is linked to cognitive decline.
We also know that people in certain occupations or under exposures automatically aquire listening patterns.
Actively Listen
As a hearing impaired person you may have slowly started tuning out of conversations. Your active listening skills will need some time to improve again.
Hearing still requires active listening, which means making sure you face the speaker and look right at them while they’re talking. This will help your brain reconnect the dots between sounds, vocal patterns, and nonverbal body language.
Musicians have better hearing
Musicians generally have better hearing than the non-musicians.
A study of 12 musicians compared to 12 non-musicians in a controlled environment confirmed this.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5078501/
Conclusion: The present study demonstrated that musicians do perform better than non-musicians in detecting frequency changes in quiet and noisy conditions. The ACC and onset LAEP may involve different but overlapping neural mechanisms.
One of the benefits for musicians was their ability to “extracting speech signals from background noise”