>>26447
I like walking at night by houses and neighborhoods and hearing the commotion coming from them. I like when I can hear a family shouting at each other, or friends laughing about something but I can't see them. So I imagine them in my head. Through the wall or the window, they may be in a different universe… I don't know. I like watching people and imagining where they are going to go, what they are thinking and doing. Every house is its own world, with its own atmosphere and smells and rules and people with stories and emotions. The feeling of being alone and getting lost in the reflection fills me with an emotion, I can't describe it. I've felt it since I was a kid, only when I'm alone - it's like a mixture of nostalgia and self pity and wonder, it's a comfy as it is uncomforting.
I like it so much that I used to spawn myself into games by myself to just take in the world building. Source game maps are good for this. Just walk by the buildings, taking note of the little details the map creator set out by the front door - like a bag of trash, a stain, a crack in the wall, a lamp, a rug. Listen to the soundscape the creator chose for that section of the map(soundscape is the background noise), they are usually made up of several noise events at random intervals i.e. dogs barking, car horn, police sirens, wind. In some parts they add a constant loop of what sounds like a big room with a bunch of people talking, like walking in on a cocktail party, with the occasional steel spoon dragging across a porcelain plate, or the one guy who laughs too loud.
Usually the creator will place these in a hallway by a door, and the range of the sound entity is quite small, so you have to walk right up close to the door to hear the commotion - just like you're a little voyeur pressing your ear to the door.