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Bell ringer poll: How sensitive are you to environmental noise? After years of living in big cities, it would literally take an ambulance in my living

Posted by loosilu (aka loosilu2) Dec 15 '10, 18:14

room to bother me.

I have lived next door to a hospital emergency bay; have had a commuter train 30 feet from my bedroom window; and have lived in a Hispanic neighborhood where people blast music in the courtyard at 2 am. at this point I am not sure a fire alarm would get my attention.

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Ultra. Sleep in ear plugs. -- nm - Spawn Dec 15, 20:14
I am now recalling when a pipe broke and my apartment was flooding and the fire company broke down my door and I didn't wake up. -- nm - Dano Dec 15, 18:56 1
- my brotha!!!! -- nm - loosilu Dec 15, 19:10
My bedroom overlooks a fairly busy boulevard...after 30 years I don't hear it. -- nm - MistletoeMeg Dec 15, 18:42
The frogs outside wake me up sometimes during the summer. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 15, 18:41 1
- Then something woke you, didn't it? Was it a dream? What was it? -- nm - Hannibal Lecter Dec 15, 19:28
I sleep very soundly and fall asleep very easily - much to the annoyance of others apparently - especially when I can sleep fairly anyplace - in cars, - JenBro Dec 15, 18:39 1
- my sistah!!! I am a sleep talker too. apparently, not in English. -- nm - loosilu Dec 15, 19:28
I lived five floors up from three of the busiest bars in state college. it took a month to get used to it. I can sleep through anything. - miss amanda jones Dec 15, 18:31 2
- yeah. learning to sleep in helicopters is what finally did it for me. -- nm - mafic Dec 15, 18:40 1
  - I can happily sleep in helicopters. that twirling is so soothing. -- nm - loosilu Dec 15, 18:47
My biggest problems are bass and other percussive repetitive noise from adjacent apartments. Things out in the world, I can handle anything. -- nm - TFox Dec 15, 18:29
Extremely. There'll be times I just have to leave a room because there is too much noise -- nm - Roger More Dec 15, 18:27
generally doesn't bother me. I used to live across the street from a hospital, and only the helicopters ever bothered/woke me. - mafic Dec 15, 18:27 1
- living in DC, helicopters go overhead all night and day. I can't hear them any more. -- nm - loosilu Dec 15, 18:49
Very. Drives me nuts. Not like "bash a Santa" nuts, but still. nm - ralph wiggum Dec 15, 18:23
Hate barking dogs. Hate ticking clocks. -- nm - TWuG Dec 15, 18:20
Medium. But I can tune out screaming babies -- nm - Epiphany Dec 15, 18:18 6
- screaming babies only ever irritate me if the parents are ignoring them. - mafic Dec 15, 18:28 2
  - OTOH, ignoring them is a high level skill. I get it. -- nm - loosilu Dec 15, 18:50
  - True that, they are -- nm - Epiphany Dec 15, 18:45
- screaming babies is one of the tougher ones, but it never wakes me up. -- nm - loosilu Dec 15, 18:19 2
  - I did have years of exposure therapy. -- nm - Epiphany Dec 15, 18:22 1
    - hee! my sister says, now that she has twins plus two older boys, crying is now white noise. -- nm - loosilu Dec 15, 18:25
oh yes, and "road noise"? It amazes me that people are bothered by it. I live next to 395 right now. - loosilu Dec 15, 18:15

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