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Do you have favourite sounds?

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I've put a list below, it would be nice to know if you have other or similar ones.

Examples of sounds I like:

1. Pink/Brown/.../ noises, also the smoothed versions

2. Some ASMR sounds like tapping, or wax writing, ..

3. "Pub" background sounds

4. Spatial or ambient music, something expansive with few sounds.

5. Nature sounds: either animal sounds, or rain / thunderstorm, or fireplace with crackling sounds, water streams.

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  • I know this up is completely unoriginal - but definitely birdsong, and the sound of the breeze in the trees. I particularly love the sound of an owl calling near my house at night, and a curlew call. But all birdsong sounds like heaven to me. Also water - the sound of a gentle bubbling brook or gentle rain on the window. 

  • in reply to Kate Kestrel

    All of this (including the owls near us too!) Curlew song is gorgeous, it's like a dream. Whimbrel is close but not quite.

    Blackbirds and song thrush in the evening, chiffchaff in the woods, yellowhammer and even stone chat in the hedges.

    Oyster Catchers are a little more shrill when they are making their breeding call rounds late in the summer over the house (we aren't even near the sea but they have come inland).

    Spotting the buzzard or the skylark if your are lucky after hearing their call.

    The rustling of a thousand wings as starlings murmerate above you.

    Bliss.

  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing
    Cinnabar_wing said:
    The rustling of a thousand wings as starlings murmerate above you.

    Quickly followed by the rustling of a hundred unbrellas being opened to avoid the inevitable "rain" that follows.

    I remember seeing these a lot in late summer in Rome - hundreds of thousands of the birds on their way to Africa and all swirling about in clouds all over the skyline. I've never seen anything quite like it.

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  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing
    Cinnabar_wing said:
    The rustling of a thousand wings as starlings murmerate above you.

    Quickly followed by the rustling of a hundred unbrellas being opened to avoid the inevitable "rain" that follows.

    I remember seeing these a lot in late summer in Rome - hundreds of thousands of the birds on their way to Africa and all swirling about in clouds all over the skyline. I've never seen anything quite like it.

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