I’m able to sleep better but for a good while it was really getting to me, LOTS of sleepless nights.
It’s like reverse tinitus, as it’s low end freqs. Actually, it’s higher in pitch than it actually seems and has many harmonics nestled in the noise. Does yours kinda cut in and out regularly? Like randomly every couple of seconds?
I should have said that it really helped to anylise the sounds in order to break it down to a point you were meditating to it. And eventually, use it in a way that will get you to sleep.
I Have a few pieces of music gear by a Russian hippy dude who sent me a device called quantum ocean. Basically it transmits analog noise. The instructions give you meditation tasks to use the noise to focus on clearing the mind and meditating to the “earth’s noise” The more you listen, you’ll hear it’s not just white noise, there are many embedded sounds, tones, timbres in the layers. Whether they are actually there and they make up the natural sound of noise or whether the brain is creating them, Who knows but focussing on such details can just break down normally harsh or annoying sounds to the point you can just knock yourself out to them.
So, try it. REALLY concentrate on the sound, try and peel the layers away, count how many different parts make up that whole sound, you’ll be surprised how many different parts it has and the harmonics, tones, noises, rhythms that together just sound like an annoying hum. Once you break it down, it becomes less invasive and you can hear each element quickly, filter out the others a bit and in a similar way that counting sheep or reading you can just shut down through sole concentration on one task.
Good luck.
It doesn’t bother me anywhere near as much now, I can acknowledge it’s there and filter it out somewhat.
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You don’t live in Omagh do you?! Saw a doc on BBC about it
I saw that, the council found the source and got it sorted but won’t say where it was coming from. Well weird.
Yeah I find that it will cycle for a good 30 to 60 seconds and peetr out fooling me for a moment that it’s actually stopped but again it will slowly increase in sound and frequency. If it was just a sound I’d probably be able to ignore it but my whole body can feel it,
It’s a hard sensation to describe, it’s like having an old analogue crt television on in a room that’s playing black screen with no sound, even without looking at it you just know that it’s switched on. I had to sleep on the couch it was that bad it seems to disappear in the living room I’m guessing whatever it is is hitting my windows and slate roof. Before I figured out what it could be I spent the half of one night checking all the sockets in the house switching everything off at the mains to figure it out what could be causing it.
The wife thinks I’m mental because she can’t hear it.
Yeah, you can definitely feel it and you question whether it’s outside or in your head.
To me it feels like a work generator has been left on in a distant building site.
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It could be many things we have a gas terminal down the coast and glaxo chemical which has a lot chimneys and plantwork there’s a beck running at far end of my street too. thankfully it seems to be every once in a while that it drives me to distraction and not every night.
When it started I found this which is really interesting even if the dude is a bit… dunno. Guy has never really sat right with me because it feels like his music is just him trying to better all the famous warp artists with some weird bitterness, but that’s probably unfair of me.
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Hes king of the humble brag
I’d quite like to do a pisstake or parody or something on electronic music youtubers, they’re a dodgy lot
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Did for a while in the 90s (there was ringing in your ears but not from drones).
Currently in Minor Injuries seeing if I’ve broken any fingers or my hand after saying one more go.
FFS. What was I thinking. IDIOT.
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I liked that… but I don’t really like it.
Hope all is well Les.
Someone once told me to always say two more goes, then stop after one. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Two fractures in my hand and a lot of fatty shit coming out a hole in my finger!
From skating a curb!
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It’s the small obstacles that do the most damage!
Speedy recovery!
My sister snapped her fibula and tore ligaments in her ankle after stepping in a puddle walking down some steps earlier this week.
My other sister did the exact same thing on a step five years ago.
3months out!
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Bloody hell!!
+1
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Let’s have a look haha
Tried to save money fitting a dishwasher. Builders that installed the kitchen fucked it skyhigh and it took an age to get everything in then when attaching the waste pipe to the trap managed to shear off the trap from the bottom of the sink.
Fucking. Bullshit.
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