I keep a fan running in my bedroom

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Always.

I have one of those heater/fans so it's always running.

Yeah, I clean mine too, and don't keep hairbrushes, etc. near it. However, I have long hair that seems to end up everywhere. It's a fact of my life now that still annoys me.



Yes. Every time I've heard that sound, I've turned off the fan, found one or two strands of hair caught in the rotating part and presumably whipping into the blades. Once I removed the hair, the sound was gone.



While you have my sympathies (it is awful!) I am also somewhat glad I am not alone.



I have it on during the winter. I've tried going without the sound and using music or the TV but it's not the same. I used to have the radio on all night, but where I live there are no radio stations I enjoy. Probably could do internet radio.

Also, wow to the fan death thing.



I find freezing weather to be comfortable in shirt sleeves, so I don't mind the cold.

I do hear spider webs tear. It doesn't bother me much, but it's there.

I have always kept a fan running in my bedroom even in the dead of winter.


TheSunAlsoRises

I don't keep a fan running in my room, but I do keep the radio on. Helps block out other noises and I also use it to help get to sleep. And to concentrate on reading.

I have a humidifer going all night. Now I did put black tape over the switch due to a bright light behind it. Even the dog sleeps better with it. She snores VERY LOUDLY without it. She has woken herself up with her snores and started barking thinking something else woke her up. No one wants their dog barking at 2 am when you are trying to sleep. It takes about a half hour to calm her down and it will include a trip outside for her to realize there is nothing for her to barking at. lol

I use a white noise machine instead of a fan. The gentle whirring is the same but there is no variation due to random things in the enviroment like a stuck hair.

I use a fan during the summer and my computer and a space heater during winter. During summer, I turn my computer off at night and only leave it on overnight about once every two weeks so it can do it's scheduled backup.

Tinnitus is caused by a hearing loss, even a slight one. Ppl who have damage to their hearing later in life, compaired to infanthood or early childhood, are more prone to tinnitus. What happens is the brain realizes it is having trouble hearing, so it tries to turn up the volume, but when it does that it causes tinnitus.
just so you know.

However I have a severe hearing loss, so I have no idea what a hair in the fan blades sound like. What does it sound like to you??
Hell, I didnt even know than fans made a noise for that matter.

Anyway...on topic, I love the way a fan feels when I am in bed. If I used to a fan going, then when it is not, I get this weird sensation of there not being air in the room. Kinda like the opposite of Korean fan death. I also get that weird feeling if I suddenly find myself in an area with very low humidity, cause I live in the south eastern US....all air is humid right??

Jojo

I don't like the air blowing on me or the noise. In my old apartment I could even hear it when there was a fan going in the downstairs window. Sometimes when the downstairs apartment was empty the landlord would work on it and leave a fan running in the window overnight. The noise would annoy me and make me anxious. First I'd be anxious because I didn't know what the noise was and then when I figured it out I'd be anxious over a fan running unsupervised. I consider that to be a fire hazard. I remember once when I was a little kid we had a fan break and smoke and sparks were coming out of it.

I don't mind having an air conditioner on when I sleep but that was never in the same room as me so it wasn't blowing right on me and the noise did irritate me at times.

Tinnitus is actually not only caused by hearing loss, though that's the most common reason. Actually, many people who have hypersensitive hearing also have tinnitus, caused by some other method. I've had tinnitus (off and on ringing, not constant), in tones that I hear (and hate), for my entire life, it was actually only recently that I found out that this wasn't true for most people.

If someone doesn't have hypersensitive hearing and has tinnitus its almost certainly caused by hearing loss, if someone does have hypersensitive hearing, then its probably not.


As for the fan,
I like the white noise, but fans don't work well for me. The movement of air over my face makes everything feel so dry, and hurts my eyes. I can deal with pointing the fan at certain parts of me, or certain parts of the wall behind me, and this tends to be done (because my boyfriend often needs the fan to sleep when its not the winter), but I need to be careful because both fans and space heaters bother my skin (though are also both things I use a lot...)

I have an air purifier, which has a fan in it as well as other stuff, near the bed that's running that provides me with white noise, as well as a humidifier.

(And yes, the hair in a fan sound is absolutely terrible)

Hi from a newbie - likely an aspie, which would explain so much!

I have to have a fan on me as much as possible - preferably one that doesn't oscillate. Can't sleep with a radio these days, but always had one under my pillow when I was a kid. I apparently have about 20% hearing loss in both ears, and tinnitus, and I'm still amazed at what I can hear that others can't. I'm told I don't have the ability to filter out background sounds... whatever that means. I purposely live in a very quiet complex, but if someone walks past late at night talking, or a car starts, that's the end of trying to get to sleep, which is precarious at the best of times. When the kids in the pool (about 4 townhouses down) screech, it drives me to distraction. I used to think that I was just a cranky old woman, but now that I know where this possibly comes from, I can deal with it much more easily.

Speaking of fans, does anyone here have problems tolerating the heat? I do, and it's awful! I dread summer!

Yeah, if summer would just be so nice as to stop existing, things would be so much better. Ugg I hate the heat. Winter isn't great either, but I'd take it over summer any day.

LOL... the hide of summer to hang around! How dare it?

Where I live, the winters are glorious! I do see people wearing really warm clothing and overcoats, but I'm fine in a lot less clothing (cotton, no tags, of course). When I lived where it was colder, yes, once I'm cold, nothing will help but a hot shower. Years ago I was obsessed with finding a place with my perfect climate. Found it. Unfortunately, it would require me to live on an island in the middle of Pacific Ocean (about level in latitude to where I live now), thousands of miles from anywhere. It's tempting but not a good idea to feed into my hermit tendencies, however, what I save on air-fares back to see my family a couple of times a year, I can spend on running air-conditioning.

I resurrect this thread because I had to take hair out of the fan again. SO ANNOYING. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard.

http://simplynoise.com/

I love the rain one. So soothing. Especially with the thunder effect on

Thanks for the link. I keep meaning to find something else to fill that role, but I never seem to get around to it.