Noise

[Desiree W]

How does everyone deal with noise? I have. To wear earplugs in my own house somedays
Its like the noise of life is peranantly in my ear drum
Its truly awful

I have sensitive ears. Some noises are more tolerable than others. I really don't like screaming or other loud noises. Phones ringing can be irritating too sometimes.

 

[Keigan]

I have the Bose Quoet Comfort 35, they are amazing. I wear them at work and listen to classical music all day long. I've worn them in flights and they work fantastic.

Every environment I've worn them, they help me be calm and focused. Yes expensive though I have no regret as the benefits for me far outway the expense.

 

[Lady Penelope]

I'm seriously thinking of "going the distance" and purchasing some wireless Bose Quiet Comfort noise-cancelling headphones.

Absurdly expensive, but they actually work as advertised, unlike so many others I've tried. Rechargeable, so I'd just hook them up at night when I got sleep.

I splashed out and bought the Bose noise canceling headphones prior to going on an overseas trip. I thought they would cancel out the plane noise and I could sleep in blissful oblivion. WRONG. They didn't cut out jack. They are ok for listening to music but they were advertised that you could turn on the noise cancelling button and without music it would be silent. They weren't.

 

[Keigan]

My Quiet Comfort 35 definitely work on flights, bluetooth or wired for music or movies.

 

[8398]

This thread is helpful- I was thinking of getting ear plugs but headphones with an ear muff over it sounds nice.
I'm selective about noises. I don't mind nature noises, I can forget about the clock, fridge, and fan in the background usually. But not noises from certain people, particularly my family. From my room I can hear everything that goes on in the bathroom, it makes me irritated. My step dad is inconsiderate, my sister makes noise to spite me, my mom uses the bathroom often while she has her own- turns on the loud fan even though I can hear everything anyway. I find my heart beating hard from irritation too often to be healthy. But if it's noise from someone who I like more, I hear the same thing but react way less negatively. Kinda bratty of me...

 

[Streetwise]

my neighbours decided to have a slanging match 10 doors up the street at one o clock in the morning ,i got sick of hearing "out and proud "repeated at the top of its lungs and f**k o** this when on for at least 30 minutes ,
hoping i would catch up on sleep but oh no

And to think most of my life I just surmised I was one intolerant S.O.B.. Fancy that! Glad to know it isn't just me.

Right now, literally my nemesis are pigeons on the roof, constantly groaning. Drives me nuts...having to rap on the window at them every so many minutes.

It's going to be in the high 70s today, so I've got the ceiling fan on at the moment. Helps to have some white noise. Of course I sleep each night to the sound of rainfall thanks to my clock radio with a few ambient sounds.

Unwanted, unexpected sounds really do bother me. I guess I've always been a bit self-conscious about it too.

The worse recently being my neighbor who has discovered a high-wattage audio system with a subwoofer.

 

[Streetwise]

we had the same thing when the park was !!refurbished !! basically deforestation and the pond was fiddled with a poor witless moorhen came to a house at the bottom of my street out of its mind then scuttled back to chaos at the park i dread it when any refurbishment starts !

Chemist warehouse

Competing background noise does my head in, also motorbikes. And leaf- blowers - who invented those things? Use a bloody rake!

There seems to be a lot more people in my neighbourhood riding motorbikes and hotted out cars, and of course they have to rev the guts out of them, because that makes them tough. I think there are quite a few vehicles using my street as a detour around roadworks and new traffic lights.( The road has ripped out a lot of bushland, which pisses me off too. A while back we found an echidna in our street - probably displaced by roadworks. But by the time we got back with a laundry basket and gloves, it had moved on. An echidna. In suburbia)

Chemist warehouse

Competing background noise does my head in, also motorbikes. And leaf- blowers - who invented those things? Use a bloody rake!

There seems to be a lot more people in my neighbourhood riding motorbikes and hotted out cars, and of course they have to rev the guts out of them, because that makes them tough. I think there are quite a few vehicles using my street as a detour around roadworks and new traffic lights.( The road has ripped out a lot of bushland, which pisses me off too. A while back we found an echidna in our street - probably displaced by roadworks. But by the time we got back with a laundry basket and gloves, it had moved on. An echidna. In suburbia)

 

[Streetwise]

love the birdsong its humans that do my head in

I have to have something on, Star Trek, music, cartoons, Pokemon, certain tv sitcoms, etc to keep the noises in the what would be silence from getting to me. I think if there was ever absolute silence I might freak out, I'd probably be afraid I was going deaf. The birds outside are ultra-annoying, and if I can hear the people next door outside talking, freaks me out I get ultra-anxiety, even though they can't me or know that I am there. Dogs are even more annoying than the birds. People's car stereo's being cranked up but unclear so it's just total noise and some of them even shake the whole street, crazy people, total ugh. The noise from fans and air conditioners annoy me to, I always have to drown them out with music, cartoons or Star Trek. Man I would not be able to live without Star Trek.

 

[Gracey]

I choose my own (noise)
listening to my music through my headphones most of the time.
at the dinner table with family, no headphones but classical music on in the background.
I can focus on the different instruments rather than getting annoyed having to listen to people chew or crunch.

 

[isthisreallife]

Buses going by, motorcycles, emergency vehicles, cars driving in the rain, construction, subway station announcements, subway trains (especially when wheels screech), the ding the elevator button makes at my psychologists' office, loud music in confined spaces (concert I do ok at), my place of work (makes me dizzy sometimes), running water (the shower used to scare me), flushing toilets, apartment building garbage disposal (metal flap makes a loud clang), I have to use a fan to drown out ambient noise, songs that go into a louder phase, or become high pitched (I have to turn it down before, then I'll turn it back up when the offending section is over). There's probably more, but those are the biggies.

 

[Momo]

I just sink into my head when everything becomes too much, like a mini meltdown, but I become unresponsive until I've sorted out my thoughts. Though texture generally starts this, or a whole lot of stimuli at once, like a concert: too much noise, too many lights and waaay to many people touching me! So I suppose I just put up with stuff like noise until it becomes too much, then become a zombie. So my advice is, be one with the zombie, I've heard brains are nutritious!

 

[Lellynelly]

I have the added problem of being hard of hearing (I don't hear higher frequency sounds which includes some speech) and I have tinnitus, so at work I have to wear hearing aids or I can't hear what is being said. I am a teacher. This means I also hear lots of things that I don't want to. But the things that really wind me up the most are anything repetative or continuous - a gate banging in the wind, a child tapping a pencil, fidget spinners spinning on a desk, the fan. My stress gets way higher if I can't locate the source so I then become fixated on finding out what is making the noise. A very good part of my day is getting home, when I can take my hearing aids out. Phew!

 

[QueenOfFrance87]

I have a pair of headphones that I need to sleep with every night because someone has the TV on, or just to block off noise in general. I like to sleep in complete silence.

I have super-sensitive hearing, so when I am around balloons, I get squeamish because the sound they make when they pop make me jump. I also need headphones to watch fireworks because of the noise.

Besides using headphones, I try to drown out everything by listening to music, and on summer days, cranking up the A/C.