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[rootofnewt]

when the plug falls out of the power port, my laptop makes a high-pitched whine. it's just the sound of the laptop when operating from the battery. other appliances have similar noises.

and they drive me insane.

i seriously get panicky and have a tendency to beat my head against the wall. i get angry. right now, i'm not near a wall, so i catch myself rocking back and forth with this high pitched whine ricocheting around the inside of my head. i hate it i hate it.

it hurts.

it hurts in a way that strobe lights do, but those aren't quite this bad. i just can't look at those without getting this same feeling. and flourescent lights make this same sound. and they flicker. they're evil. i can't hear anything else. the sound increases to a scream in my head.

i can't concentrate, i'm getting a headache, and i want to explode. i might explode. that's what this sound does to me.

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:)

[mollyoreilly.livejournal.com]

Must be nice to see (from your comments) that you're not the only one!

I haven't noticed lights bothering me, but the computer-being-on noise and (most especially) the stereo's white noise when nothing is playing drive me absolutely bonkers. Brock thinks I'm crazy, because he wants to listen to music while we go to sleep- which is fine- but he can't understand that the white noise the stereo makes after the music is over will wake me up!

:) Laura

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[krasota.livejournal.com]

what you need is a light timer--the kind you use when you go on vacation. put the cd in the stereo on repeat, but set the timer to turn OFF power at a certain time. no white noise for you, but you both still have music.

i HATE the stereo's white noise.

and i go nuts with white noise generators (the specific ones used to reduce noise, etc). literally go nut, that is... i get panicky, start rocking back and forth, develop insta-migraine, etc.

tell brock that he married you because you're crazy and now he has to live with his decision. ;) and get that light timer.