What can you hear right now?

It’s insanely quiet here right now. Everyone seems to have gone out. I’d usually sit in the garden but it’s way too hot today (I hate being hot!). 

Ben said:

Is there a collective noun for us?

Yes, Buggered.

And then you suddenly realise that both ears are the same today but there’s actually 2 pitches, one deeper than the other, but they work together so well, and now because you are realising there are in fact 2 pitches it’s getting louder and louder! 

Briar, I recognise everything you say.

It's the final one, when it seems like each ear has a different pitch, that really annoys me, it is SO disorientating.   

Arghhhhhh!

Ben

So many of you with tinnitus, I also have it. But, I kind of ignore it because it’s always there so doesn’t bother me. Unless of course I suddenly realise it’s there and focus on it, or if it decides to randomly change pitch, I become more aware of it. Or worse still, when it seems like each ear has a different pitch! 

The birds are usually the only thing that don’t bother me :) 

I wouldn’t be able to cope with your neighbours and would probably reduce to rocking with my hands over my ears while crying uncontrollably! That and have a melt down and shout at them. 

Same here! But I don’t blast it in the car anymore. I do wear my airpods not far off of full volume though while I work. 

Same here. And my family think I’m nuts and imagining it! But I then become fixated on it too and can’t concentrate on anything I’m supposed to be doing. 

I have dogs but I’m generally quick to know what they want or how to divert a situation so we rarely have my own barking. Other dogs in the distance constantly barking drives me nuts. 

I think that makes five of us, so far.

Is there a collective noun for us?

A whistle of tinnitus sufferers, maybe?

Any ideas?

Ben

I'm very sorry to read that, Pegg.

Tinnitus.

Right now I can hear the birds singing in my garden and the instrumental folk music I play to help me focus while I work. It's nice

Traffic noise in the distance 

Plane coming closer 

Some kind of bird with a croaky voice. It's the kind of noise I think a crow might make but I know literally nothing about bird sounds. 

Farm Workers; still at it, tonight.

tinnitus can be annoying, I have suffered with tinnitus for a few years now. like you a little bit it comes and goes when it wants to

I hear my dog breathing next to me, occasional traffic and someone talking in the distance.

I guess I don't notice the absence as much, because it feels like neighbours blasting reggaeton or whatever in their garden goes on from about noon to midnight.

I also do have a little bit of tinnitus but it's mostly something I forget about. 

Buzzing from tinnitus. I can't really hear anything else right now.

Nothing.. I lost most of my hearing in an accident. I quite like the peace, in fact. 

Although there are sounds I miss. 

I can hear electricity going through the walls on occasions which is annoying. I love peace and quiet but in the car love blasting my tunes within reason (not full volume as I do not want to crash lol)