Hi, folks! Have you ever heard of this song?
https://odysee.com/@bumnumbum:d/insects:6?lid=favorites
It is one of the most famous nursery rhymes in Japan. It is an appreciation of the chirping sound that autumn insects make in the night.
It is true that only Japanese and Polynesians listen to insects in the left hemisphere of the brain? According to some experts who have studied the EEG patterns (see, e.g.,
Oh, by the way, the author is a deep-state ignorant agent.), they theorize that certain languages such as Japanese tend to use extensive onomatopoeia to evoke emotions. Some European language speakers simply do not pick up the insects' sound as the Japanese naturally do? They simply regard it as a noise and thus the brain is trained not to process the sound. In a way, it is very similar to the phenomenon where ordinary adults in the Western world in general usually no longer able to "sense" ghosts and other entities (as something David Iche describes) as children and animals do. It may not be far-fetched to think that it is also related to the basic ideas of the Monroe Institute.
And there is the famous Japanese poet Basho's haiku, 閑さや岩にしみ入る蝉の声 (Shizukesaya Iwani shimiiru Semi no koe). The English translation by https://blogs.transparent.com/japanese/what-is-haiku/
is,
What a tranquility!
penetrating the rock,
voice of cicada’s.
I wonder if what Basho felt about the "tranquility" is the same as the most ordinary people feel nowadays. When the Japanese learn this haiku, we tend to be taught that it is this contrast and apparent inconsistency that makes the haiku profound and clever. However, the tranquility he felt is simply not noiselessness. It is neither "tranquil" nor "quiet" if cicada is chirping so loud, if you ask me. As you know, insects make loud noises to attract opposite sex. Then what is it that makes him clam (tranquil) in this environment? When you really think about it, it is very hard to miss the idea of the spiritual (霊的) aspects in this poem, which we do not learn in school.