Can you hear this?

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Can you hear this?
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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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Fri, 06-16-2006 - 11:48am

On my puter it sounded like a high pitched buzz....I had the volume all the way up and played it several times so it wasn't just the normal humm of the speakers...etc. I definately heard something I didn't think it was too bad but it did fill my head up like I had a sinus infection or something.

I am sensitive to competing sounds. DH likes to put the radio on at night when he's loading the dishwasher and it drives me bonkers. I can't hear DS when we're outside unless he's with in an arm's reach and looking at me.....we live on a busy street and with the birds, kids in the neighborhood and traffic noise.....forget it. Don't even get me started on bowling alleys! We went once with DS and I had to yell at the top of my lungs so he could hear me.....oy the looks I got! LOL

I'm horrible with smells to.....the toilet in our new place...I can't get the urine smell out of my nose when I go in there. I keep thinging the boys are peeing on the floor....but they assure me that they are not....sigh

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Fri, 06-16-2006 - 2:12pm

Paula, you're like that too? I can hear when things are turned on too! It drives me nuts sometimes and drives my DH really nuts b/c I once made him take a TV back b/c I could hear it when it was just plugged in. drove me batty. I can handle it if I'm in a TV section of a store b/c I'm prepared for it (then there's lots of noises), but at home in themiddle of the night... it was just creepy.

I also have a hard time with the whumpa whumpa of car windows that aren't opened a 'just right'. Like when the rea windows in a sedan are open and not the front ones it sounds like a helicopter is RIGHT above the car! I can feel the air pulse and eveything. Have to at least crack the driver's side window by an inch to avoid that. (or in like in my case just get rid of the sedan, lol).

Of course, hearing these sounds has also saved us some money. When my coffee maker was having problems I could hear it making this terrible whining sound when no one else could. I cleaned it out and it still made the sound, so I hunted the sales and got a new one cheap. the next week the old one broke and when DH grabbed his keys to go 'grab a new one real quick' I just pulled the one I'd already found the good price on out of the cupboard. (My DH is an impulse shopper and would have gone for the one with all the fancy things we didn't need... and couldn't afford.) I also 'heard' my clothes dryer having problems, called the repair guy our warrenty covers and got an appt (he's a busy boy, he also does all the installs) he couldn't hear anything but he opened it up anyway. Sure enough there was a lego melted to a wire set. He replaced the wire set and commented on how that COULD have turned into a major fire hazzard if we hadn't caught it in time.

I can hear my computer complaining before the overheat alarm comes on. Not such a huge problem in the new house (my office has seperate ventillation and cooling) but in the old house my office was in the garage and it got REALLY hot in there sometimes.

My kids electronic toys drive me batty if they leave them on too. My mother is the same way, she just recently found where the lights in her studio were having problems by just following the sound the electrician couldn't hear. "Right there. That junction box, check it." LOL

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Fri, 06-16-2006 - 3:04pm

I heard the noise Renee posted but not the other one. I am much more sensitive to smells than I am to noise. I am extremely sensitive to smells when I am about to get (or are having) a migraine. During a migraine.....I get super sensitive to light, sound and especially smells. I remember having to take the train home from work one day when I had a bad migraine......I could smell people's deodorant and their feet.....it was winter and everyone had on boots and winter jackets but I could smell through them.....it was disgusting.

Christie

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Fri, 06-16-2006 - 5:20pm

Renee, nails on the chalkboard is right! I am still cringing from that. (I couldn't get the one that Little Roses posted to play on my computer, so don't know about those.)

This is pretty interesting. That noise would work as psycholgical torture for me! I never thought I was especially sensitive to sound either.

Now smells, I am pretty sensitive to that. Eric and I both frequently smell things that DH can't smell. I really dislike going to department stores for that reason. Eric and I both can't handle the competing smells of the perfume, makeup section!

Katherine

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Fri, 06-16-2006 - 6:07pm

i heard it very much so. and actually i am having a mini anxiety feeling from it still. i can't explain it but my heart is pounding funny. it's very strange...

valerie

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Fri, 06-16-2006 - 9:40pm

I guess I'm in the same boat.

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Fri, 06-16-2006 - 10:02pm
Renee,
I would consider myself as having auditory "issues" but that sound wasn't awful to me and I can't even stand my DH chewing near me and pages turning sends me loopy. It's weird the way we are wired!
Teresa
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Fri, 06-16-2006 - 10:05pm

I had one of those tellys when I lived in Manhattan! I used to plug it out at night. If I forgot, I wouldn't go into the living room in the dead of night.

-Paula

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Fri, 06-16-2006 - 10:18pm
Here's something odd. That sound leaves a strange taste in my mouth. It sounds like my tinntinus and tastes like a battery (ever touched one to your tongue to see if its still good?) Weird.
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Fri, 06-16-2006 - 11:42pm

Ohhh isn't that synesthesia? Where one sense crosses over with another? Cait sees numbers in color. tasting sound seems the same to me.

Renee

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