you know, if the caller is having to say things like "the other right hand", the individual(s) concerned are confused to the point of not processing properly. Hence "no, I'm facing in". Or the sound going in their ears just not connecting with a realisation that they need to move.
the dancer(s) concerned may or may not be hearing, but they're mentally stunned, or freezing, in the way that I see students who have just made a significant mistake in the lab (drop a beaker, for instance, with resulting shattering noises), and they'll go bunny-in-the-headlights on me. Not for long (and not everyone does after they've killed a beaker, but some do), but for longer than a couple of bars (assuming I had background music in my labs).
They eventually snap back into focus, but once they've done it on one occasion, it doesn't take much that lab session to put 'em back in the headlights (or do a Bambi-on-the-ice). It's a mental processing issue.
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Date: 2007-11-06 11:25 pm (UTC)the dancer(s) concerned may or may not be hearing, but they're mentally stunned, or freezing, in the way that I see students who have just made a significant mistake in the lab (drop a beaker, for instance, with resulting shattering noises), and they'll go bunny-in-the-headlights on me. Not for long (and not everyone does after they've killed a beaker, but some do), but for longer than a couple of bars (assuming I had background music in my labs).
They eventually snap back into focus, but once they've done it on one occasion, it doesn't take much that lab session to put 'em back in the headlights (or do a Bambi-on-the-ice). It's a mental processing issue.