Headphones

Question. Why does everything sound so much better through headphones?
It sounds so right.

If you put them in and turn the volume up, you wonder how you can ever feel really profoundly in response to things that happen at a distant level. It just feels wrong. I mean, when you're talking to people, I guess it's best that that's distanced, because I couldn't deal with the sound of my physics teachers voices thrumming through my mind at an intimate noise level.

But seriously. Why is it better with headphones? WHy is the dangerous so much more enticing? [I say danger because of the whole noise overload equals deafness thing]]. Why..?
It's the same everywhere, but for me, right now: the most important thing is that I plug my headphones in and listen to some Bon Jovi before I lose my mind.