What If Your Hearing Got 10% Stronger Every Day

What if every morning you woke up with hearing 10% stronger than the day before? It sounds like a tiny upgrade, but it compounds: twice as sensitive after a week, 17 times after a month, almost 1,000 times by day 72. At first it's fun. You catch whispers across a restaurant and know the coffee is ready before the machine beeps. Then you start hearing the 60 Hz hum of everything plugged in, what people say behind your back, your own heartbeat, singing mice inside your walls, screaming bats, clicking tomato plants, and infrasound that makes you feel a ghost in the room. And on day 90 you finally hear the sound that has been touching you every second of your life.