I remember in my childhood I used to narrate horror and suspense stories that I came to know from my friends and movies to my grandmother. In just one-fourth of the story she would fell half asleep and start snoring. However when I stopped and started to leave, she would hold me back and insist that I should complete the story as she was listening. Now I understand that probably it was the sound of the words, which made her feel comfortable as it diverted her mind from the tensions of the unconscious mind and also made her feel that somebody was around.
People might just hear your words and not actually listen to your message.
Words are not just meanings, they are more than that. Spoken words have a rhythm. Out of all the sounds existing around us they are one of the most familiar ones. They also do not come alone but wrapped with voice, volume and expression. Therefore it is all-possible that the listener is put on or off by just hearing the ‘music’ of the words. It is also possible that the attention of the listener is somewhere else but he cannot afford to look unresponsive to somebody’s speech. While taking lectures I had noticed several times students faking attention. When suddenly asked- ‘ What the class has been discussing’, they would promptly utter 2- 3 sentences just spoken by somebody in the class.which might have been just stored in their ‘RAM’. On further probing, however, they would be clueless.
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