• Syd@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Does anyone else hear every electronic device and feel a wave of comfort when the power goes out?

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      7 months ago

      My hearing isn’t sharp enough to hear EVERY electronic device, but idling vehicle engines and noisy refrigerators do this to me.

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      7 months ago

      Only some things. Like a TV or a speaker. Even when nothing is playing or they’re muted, there’s like this high pitched whine coming from them. A busted GPU in a PC makes a similar sound, though louder (coil whine). I sometimes feel like Quark that time he kept hearing shit in the shuttle with Odo and it turned out to be a bomb; hearing a faint thing no one else does until I pinpoint the source and turn it off.

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      One of the first times i tripped i saw all this purple dots coming off my tv that was turned off. It was very distracting, so i unpluged my tv and it faded away in like a minute.

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      I don’t hear most of it consciously but I do feel the wave of comfort. It happens allot more now that I live rural. Lose power bout once a month for an hour, or two. It is just enough that you’re still comfortable temperature.

      I think it is mostly the Fridge. That thing loud AF and is always making noise.

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        Starting to wonder, I’m talking about hearing even electricity in the wires. It’s hard to exactly explain it, but it’s like a pressure on my eardrums and sensation in my head. It’s not a distinct sound like a refrigerator, just a presence. There’s different pitches for different devices too, oven burners are a low hum where led lightbulbs are a shrill whine.

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        It makes a sound before text messages or calls come in, sometimes other random clicking hissing sorts of noise? I almost always pick it up before any sound plays or vibration happens as a result. Constant sound? Not that I notice, but I’m around it 24/7