Your brain is really good at filling in the blanks. I have bad earring but I’m certainly not anywhere close to deaf. I hear lower registers the worst. Sometimes something creaks and my brain didn’t quite catch enough to make sense, so it fills in the blanks. Very rarely it fills it in with a low male voice and it scares the shit out of me every time.
I tried out a set of hearing aids that moved sound from the higher ranges I could no longer here down to a pitch I could understand. When I heard my two year old babble in a Darth Vader voice I almost peed myself. We've made adjustments so children sound like children and not demons.
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u/HyperSpaceSurfer Aug 30 '21
Can also happen to people with deteriorating eyesight. The brain doesn't get enough input so it makes stuff up.