when overwhelmed by loud noises or several people talking at once.....I discovered, long ago, that the best thing for me to do...is re-focus...replacing the stimuli to one sense to that of another.......especially on nearby sharply defined objects, which seems to muffle the edges of my diminishing constraints. Yellow, with green, is especially effective....... I think this is one reason that I became a photographer.....to re-focus on still, visual stimuli rather than endure cacophony.....then....as I just was studying the cinematography of David O. Russell, becoming fixated on his "emotionally disasterous" scenes .....and all of his films have mountains of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kItBZZK1p0 Perhaps I am delusional to even consider, or imagine, a World without dramatic inconclusiveness or desperate, competitive attention seeking.....detached, as David Clemens wished his world was, in his own mind, oblivious to the mixed metaphors of Reality, the outreach for connectivity seeming to always assume the posturings of children, seeking approval, then rejecting this for doubt and uncertainty...