Mind of my Stroked Brain

Today I got a TV in the room. The broken one is still not working. They couldn't get some parts so they will replace the whole TV. This is a temporary arrangement. So that concludes my hearing experiment formally. It has been almost 4 weeks. Good enough I suppose... Here are the results... Procedure: Put on music/ songs that I am very familiar with, a bit loudly on my phone. Keep the phone closer to the right ear. Plug the left ear as tightly as I can. Close the eyes and listen. Do the above as many times as possible everyday. Observations: Unfortunately, I did not do a baseline correctly. But on a scale of 0 - 10, I would peg it between 0 and 0.5 before I started. Some unintelligible noises would come through intermittently and feebly and there was a constant shrill sound (like the one we would get from a picture tube tv with no signal) After 4 weeks of the listening, I think I can peg it at 3.5 - 4. The background noise is still there - but has changed from the shrill noise to so

For the past week almost, my TV has conked. It is likely to take a few more days to get it set right. I am currently feeling like a fish out of water. I have resorted to listen to songs. I am actually liking it. Many of the old albums, english, hindi, instrumental, etc. These were my favourite albums/ songs and I have listened to them countless times in the past. Although it has been many years, I just need to hear the first 1 or 2 seconds of the starting tune/ beats and I am able to know the song. In many albums - playing in order, I am able to remember which song will play next. It's crazy after all this time! It has got me thinking, what if I play a song, keep the phone close to the right ear, close my left ear fully and play the song along in my head? My right ear, which is completely not working, still the sounds hit the ear, still gets converted to neural signals, but they don't reach the brain. Except I don't need the signals. The brain already knows and is singing a

On a good day, i would be driving the car, humming to the music playing on the radio, having a conversation with the person next to me, fully aware of the conversation going on at the back as well. On many occasions i have caught myself subconsciously chanting a sloka which i used to chant very often.. 3-4 threads were easily processed in the head... Now, i cant handle even 2. Yes, I can hear ok, quite well in the left ear. However the brain just cannot process 2 conversations together. Suddenly both conversations become gibberish. If there is any cross talk, everything becomes unintelligible. Its quite an experience.. i can hear the multiple sounds, but i just cannot make out anything. This is not reserved to conversations i can understand alone. Even when the nurses are talking, i cant understand anything on the tv. Same when I'm watching tv in the living room. That's why i can't watch anything without subtitles. There will be some talk, and i can't make out without s