Thanks to a cochlear implant, a guy in Los Angeles experienced intense emotions after hearing voices clearly for the first time.

Aric Hoffmann suffered meningitis at the age of six months, which left him with hearing loss from the time he was a boy.

The 28-year-old was previously limited to lipreading and sign language as a means of communication. His hearing grew worse with age, necessitating a cochlear implant.

Before I had my implant, I found that interacting with people was the hardest since I occasionally had trouble understanding what other people were saying.

“I’m now so excited to hear people talking so clearly, without asking to repeat and be able to keep the conversations going.

“I had never heard the sounds so clearly, and I was overwhelmed, crying, and very happy to hear them.”

I sensed that a deeply emotional chapter in my life had started. His audiologist asked him how he was feeling,

and you can see the tears welling up in his eyes in the video below. “I attempted to articulate my feelings through words, but they refused to flow.”

Aric had a plan to visit Disneyland, one of his favorite locations, right after receiving his implant on May 31st.

“I was astounded to hear tropical noises and mechanical birds in my implants as the Walt Disney Tiki Room show began.

The entire concert was enjoyable to listen to, and it opened my eyes to what I had been missing. Aric is still getting used to all the new noises he can hear,

particularly in his job as an assistant at a movie theater where he is exposed to a lot of background noise during conversations.