"a recent paper published in The Society for Consumer Psychology suggests that the restorative qualities of nature might be overblown, and that certain people might find lush trees, chirping birds, and blue skies anything but zen-like. Kevin P. Newman, an assistant professor of marketing at Providence College, and his co-author Merrie Brucks, a marketing professor at the University of Arizona, teamed up to explore whether people who tend to be more neurotic might actually find relief from the very source of their racing thoughts and buzzing brain...
The researchers discovered that neurotic people found “high-anxiety” situations to be more calming for their minds. In another experiment, Newman and Brucks ran a soothing ocean wave soundtrack followed by a tape of honking horns. Surprise: neurotics didn’t find the blare of taxi cab horns annoying. Actually, they found it rather satisfying."
So, this is one study being over-interpreted and reported kinda absolutely, but...
I kind of get this... I love, love, love getting out of the city and into a state Park or something for a hike and the kind of soundscape where you can hear a creek or some deer up the hill or wind in the trees. But I think I would eventually cave inward on myself if I lived out there all the time. Living with a rushing mind, it's sort of validating to see the rest of the world being just as chaotic.
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