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| Thu, 06-15-2006 - 10:17pm |
I don't know how many of you heard about the ringtone adults can't hear. There was a news story.
Well, I can hear it and it goes right up my spine worse than fingernails on chalkboard. After I turned it off, I still felt it 10 minutes later. When I first heard in on the radio the kids were in the car. Mike instantly started to yell. Cait definitely cringed as well. The others not so bad. I know lots of adults say they can't hear it so I wonder if you have auditory sensitivity if that is why some can hear it.
I know I get annoyed when there are loads of competing noises and I HATE the TV too loud. But I never realized how sensitive I was.
So can you hear this? http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages/audio/nyregion/20060610_RINGTONE.mp3
BTW, I am laughing because as I sit here DH is having his nightly smell sensitivities. Cait has a certain conditioner she uses after her shower and every night "What is that smell?!?". I never smelled it and it didn't bother anyone else. Took me days to figure out what the problem was.
I guess apples don't fall far from trees, lol.
Renee


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You've actually had people tell you they can't hear THAT!?
Oh great! Now I've go the willies.
Yes, I can hear it. It is annoying, it isn't something I'd choose to listen to. It is rather like the emergency broadcast signal we sometimes hear on the tv and radio.
Ever since I started doing research on sensitivities, I've been noticing more things that bug me. I am sometimes much more bothered than others by too many people, weird smells, bright colors, and various lights and sounds. I had always noticed feeling 'raw' or really crappy at times, but had not really ever figured out what was causing it - until now!
I have a hard time with competing noises....I have to have my phone volume turned up really high so that I can 'hear' what people say to me on the phone.
Another thing that comes to mind is the time I was visiting my sis-in-law. She does bat rehabilitation. We went downstairs to see the bat she was working with at the time and she was talking about how the bat starts to echo-locate as soon as she comes in the room. She said that she had a machine that could 'translate' the sound (so to speak) into something that we humans could hear. I told her I could already sort of 'hear' the bat without that! She said very few people can do that. I definitely was aware of the vibrations in my ears that were being caused by the bat's signals.
When I had an MRI, the tech asked me what I thought of it when he was done. I said it was horribly uncomfortable, and at times painful and that I couldn't wait for it to end. He said he'd never had anyone tell him that they felt anything at all during the procedure! Believe me, that MRI was just awful! It felt like my cells were vibrating. Took quite awhile until I felt better.
Could be that some of us just are more sensitive and that we are able to hear or feel higher or lower frequencies than other people. I am not sure why...but it is interesting.
yes, I could hear it. If I were in an environment with a lot of competing sounds I probably wouldn't register what it was though. I'd just get agitated. What is that "ringtone" for anyway??? Why was it playing on the radio?
I know I am sound sensitive. Dh is too. Every afternoon it kicks in. I start turning the volume down on the TV or radio. I want the kids to be quiet. Mine actually are very quiet. Its when friends or neices come over that I really notice how sound sensitive I am.
Samantha
I heard it. It is still giving me the heebie jeebies -though it sounds different than the one they featured on the NY news recently. How many of these ringtones
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oh, I can hear it! ouch! yep, I have the SID symptoms as bad as Weston and Owen some days. esp audio sensitivies and visual. and I'm a sensory seeker when it comes to tastes. and yep, DH has some too, tho he's more of the social geek-- we make for negative personality combinations in our kids!
Betsy
I guess the story was that some scientist or whatever came up with a noise that kids could hear but wouldn't both adults. It was supposed to be used outside places like conveince stores to keep kids from loitering but wouldn't detract adults from shopping there. I guess kids can typically hear higher frequencies than adults.
HOwever, smart kids (LOL) decided that it would be a good idea to have a ringtone adults couldn't hear so they could have thier phones on in school and such and adults wouldn't know when they were getting a call.
Renee
I can hear it too, although it wasn't really painful -- just annoying. I'm wondering: are there *really* people out there who can't hear this sound? It seems odd that all of us can hear it. Maybe it's just that the group of people on this board are, by nature, predisposed to sensory sensitivities...? I'd be really interested to know if there's anyone who can't hear it!
It's true, though, that I do have sound sensitivity. I had a really difficult time when I was living in apartments, because I couldn't STAND to hear anyone else's music or TV permeating the walls of my apartment. Even now, if someone on the street is playing their music very loudly, I literally feel invaded in my home. Same goes for if I'm at a movie theater and people are talking during the movie. I just can't tune it out.
Jennifer
I couldn't hear a thing. Interesting...
Wendy
freaky.. very annoying.. Ds and I both have sound sensitivies that drive dh wild.. I'd like to see what his(ds) reaction would be to this.
I'm always hearing weird sounds around the house that dh doesn't.. the well pump, the electric meter, the icemaker in the fridge..I could go on and on. I also don't like the tv too loud.. dh just nods his head and thinks I'm crazy
I also have smell sensitivies.. dh call them olfactory hallucinations...lol. I'm always the first one in my office at work to realize the coffee is burning!
Paula.. about that "thukka thukka" sound when the window is open? Kills me too.. try opening another window in the car a little, preferably on the other side, that should lessen the vibration sound.
Kate
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