So, what sounds do you like?

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Machine gun fire
Air raid sirens
Cats
Thunder
Some music
and sometimes pure silence.

Complete quiet when I want to meditate
Air Conditioning
Fans
Gentle rain
Gentle wind
TV when the volume is low
Clothes dryer
Clothes washer
Leaves russling

the sound of the sea
rain
wind chimes
cats
silence

Rain
Thunder
cats
And very rarely, some voices

There's a woman who does a local radio show that I could listen to all day. She could be talking about swimming in raw sewage and I wouldn't care, I just like her voice.

Babies and children
Music from the 60s, 70s and 80s
Cars passing by
Giggling and laughing
Drums
Loose change
The sound of my computer
Bagpipes
Birds singing
Cats and dogs barking and meowing
Horse hooves
Silver bells at Christmastime
Various British accents

I forgot to mention dog claws clicking on hardwood floors.

I like a lot of the sounds people talk about in this thread, such as thunder. Here's an interesting one though:

Dissonance - such as playing two notes that are a half step apart. Any sort of dissonance, I like. This may be because I have absolute pitch and hear each individual notes "noteness" rather than the chord - for example if I'm playing B and C together (they are a half step apart - just like E and F), I will hear the B-ness of the chord and the C-ness of the chord. It extends farther though - I like the sound of what I call 'out-of-tune-dissonance', which is dissonance between notes that don't fall on half step intervals.

There are so few and so they are precious:

Cats purring
Thunder
Ocean Waves
Most all string instruments
Piano and drums only for percussion
Often, the very absence of sound is a delight

-leaves crunching under your feet
-stepping on stones that crunch under your feet
-music
-babies laughing
-thunder storm
-rain
-wind
-paddling a boat
-water coming up to the shore
-fire
-a creek or river
-bubble wrap
-horses chewing their food
-echos
-horses hooves
-church bell music

The sound of words with lots of the letter 'S' in them.

- Rain falling, especially on an awning
- Thunder
- Wind through the trees
- IndyCars whizzing by at 220 mph (I'm from Indiana)
- A steady stream

these are mine.

My cat purring:
Birds singing:
Animal sounds (like in the jungle):
Children playing in the school playground:
Music:
Rain falling on a tin roof:

1) The quiet sound you get early in the mornings before most people are up. It's as if you can hear the air, even though it isn't breezy. I can't describe it, but I love that sound.

2) The sound of trains screeching on the rails as they draw into the station.

3) The female computer voice on Logan's Run (great film). It sounds comforting and sinister at the same time.

4) When my old laptop used to boot up, it had a great sound.

5) The organ.

the sound of fans (white noise to drown out intrusive noises)
bird calls---all kinds---I live near a river wash---lots of birds around.
I know this isn't exactly a sound, but-----baroque music. Vivaldi, Bach, Waldteufel, Corelli, etc.
pure silence
rain
wind
popcorn popping

Cats meowing and/or purring.
Certain kinds of music.
White noise
Rain and thunderstorms
Test pattern beeps of various varieties

How can you like chewing, that noise drives me crazy. The weird thing though is that if I'm chewing it doesn't bother me, but if it's anyone else I get annoyed and cover my ears. I really like the sound of people drumming their fingers on tables and stormy weather.