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Jason: Sensory adaptation is where you get used to your surroundings, and you stop noticing things. So if you hear noise, eventually you grow immune to the noise.

Diana: I have experience sensory adaptation. I live next to railroads, and there's that whole sound that comes when it passes. At first, I did notice it, and it bothered me. But after living there for a couple of years now, I don't notice it passing. When people come and visit actually, they get annoyed by it. And they're like, oh, how can you live with the train tracks right there? But I don't focus on it as much anymore.

Jason: When you first go on a ship, it's almost impossible to sleep because of how noisy it is. And where my berthing was on the ship, where we slept, we were right underneath the screws that make the ship move, and it was very loud. But within a week, you didn't even notice it, and you would just lay down and fall right asleep. It was like the noise wasn't even there anymore.

Amanda: During the summertime, I go to Austin a lot. And there's a place there called Barton Springs, and it's super cold. The water is the coldest water I've ever been in. And every time I get in there, at first, I'm just like, oh, I feel like I'm freezing to death!

Then after maybe 20 minutes or so, it's fine. I don't notice anymore. I'm just swimming and having fun. But then I'll see other people getting in, and they're just like, oh, it's so cold! And I'm like, just wait about 20 minutes. You won't even realize it anymore. You'll just be used to it.