so.... what sounds make YOU crazy?

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I was wondering this a little while ago. I can't stand anything just slightly off pitch or off beat. There is a commercial for a local casino in my area that features music with an askew wood block. I dont know if the woodblock player just couldnt quite get the tempo right, but it absolutely drives me batty. I also am a pitch b***h. Literally. In high school, my choir teacher used me as the human pitch pipe and sent me to different parts of the choir to weed out those who were off key. If the choir was off pitch or couldnt hold the beat, i would become angry and couldnt control my facial expressions.
other noises include: high pitched shrieks, tornado alarms that have a doppler style sound. feedback, and thin, weak singing voices.

so, what sounds make you crazy?

I don't need sounds to make me crazy

Ticking clocks. My girlfriend has this antique cuckoo clock and one of the conditions of me moving in with her was that she stopped the damn thing. I can't watch TV if I can hear a clock in the background, or listen to music, and forget about sleep with the constant tick-tock in my ears.

Ed Almos

tornado sirens
static on TV
loud bass
loud banging noises
bricks or rocks scraping together
saws cutting wood (especially powersaws)
warnings of any type (siren involved) on TV, radio, etc.
cell phones-anything they do, the sound drives me bonkers

People yelling. I can't stand it.

Crying dogs is the absolutely worst for me nothing else compares. I remember when I ran my DSL wiring. I was outside all prepared to do a professional job but the crying of my big dogs for me to come to them(they usually only see me in darkness) was so unnerving the wiring is merely hand twisted copper exposed to the elements.

I hate sound of working vacuum cleaner Also static on TV like somebody has already wrote it drives me crazy. Also lawnmover's and motorbike's noises hurt my hearing organs. Scratching a blackboard with nails also doesn't belong to the most pleasant sounds in the world but I'm not crazy about it like most people.

There is a sound that really hurts my ears. It always makes me flinch and want to cover my ears.

It is the sound of the crockery when I am stacking the plates etc out of the dishwasher.

The trouble is I also have a bit of an obsession for getting all the crockery stacked in a pleasing order.

So one half of me is saying to myself "must spend time stacking the plates right, must move that big dish more towards the bottom of the stack"

and the other half is saying to myself "AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH My EEAARS, THE PAIN, I CAN'T STAND IT"

I absoloutely love the sound of someone using the vacuum cleaner.

There are a few sounds that send me into a sort of exstatic contemplative trance-like state and that is one of them.

The other sound that does that to me is the sound of someone operating shoe repair or key cutting machinery. It is quite bizarre beacuse these sounds are so lovely to be almost erotic.

shovels scraping on concrete and dentist's drills.

The family dogs barking, which I think I mentioned in another Thread. It's enough to make me furious and for more than one reason.

Any scratching sounds - chalk on blackboard, needle against plastic, wooden furniture moved along a hard surface. These are THE worst sounds in existence, ever.

Motorbikes or cars with bad mufflers. They make me very irritated and jittery and as if my bones were vibrating inside my body. If several pass me by one after the other, it almost literally makes me climb up the wall.

Car sirens, especially if I hear them from close up and/or if they are very high-pitched. The sound is almost physically painful. The same goes for loud, high-pitched screams.

Loud music playing in cars or in neighboring apartments with the extra bass setting turned on. The music itself may not even be that loud, but the waves of powerful, resounding vibration that go along with it (infrasound I suppose) are very unpleasant. They seem to surround me from all sides, passing right through my body, and bring about a sense of vague fear I can't quite define. Sometimes I feel the floor or ground pulsing with the beat, and it makes the whole thing worse. This especially goes for techno music. That steady, overwhelming "boom....boom...boom" which echoes within the walls of the apartment makes me feel like a zombie after a little while.

Electric drills or any other such tools (especially when the next-door neighbor is using one to drill a hole in the wall adjacent to my bed on Sunday morning). After a while, the sound starts to drive me mad and I want to go, knock on that neighbor's door and give them a piece of my mind.

People shouting or just talking too loud (and it's much worse when their tone is overdramatic, then it brings emotional discomfort as well as sensory). My mother is a teacher and is used to talking as if everyone around her is deaf, and tends to raise her voice and start shouting at the slightest disturbance. She'll also come close to me and shout almost into my ear. It's very stressful sometimes - she's somewhat histrionic, so usually it's not just her manner of talking but also the fact that she makes me feel bombarded by emotions that may not even be real, but which have a very real impact (if that makes sense).

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Static on the telly. If my wife leaves the set between channels I dive for the remote to switch it off. Makes my teeth go on edge....

I 2 hate the dentist drill.

When a pallet where I work hits the concrete floor im the only person to cover their ears.

I hate my neghboors little dog, not that its a dog but its loud, high pitched barking drives me crazy they just moved in 2 when I for half a year now had this entire part of the neghboorhood to myself.

I have a sensitivity to almost all of the noises previously posted, but the award for the 2 absolute worst goes to: forks scraping plates (especially certain kinds) and someone grinding their teeth. if I am exposed to either of those sounds for more then a second I totally lose it.

Writing on a chalkboard and crying.