What can you hear right now?

[Pinkpowderpuff]

Clock ticking
DH saying goodnight to DS1 upstairs
The fridge whirring
Cat purring on my lap

Absolutely nothing. Kids in their rooms, dh in the living room and im in bed.

Its deathly quiet and beautiful.

Went outside before to see the stars. So clear, so quiet.

Lots of garden parties - at least five of my neighbours seem to be having them

Running water, someone starting their car

DH heavy breathing (he's asleep)

That's it. Live in London but it's so quiet these days

Plane, barking dog, heating ticking/clanking and for some inexplicable reason someone somewhere is letting off fireworks.

Gentle hum from the fridge and distant road noise from cars driving past in the rain. All children and DP in bed so it’s all quiet. This is a dangerous time for me as I should go to bed...but the silence after noise all day feels wasted by sleeping through it.

rocky...on the TV

I'm in bed with the window slightly often and I can hear dh breathing beside me and the faint sound of traffic a good way away. There is also a slight hum in my head that I can hear now I'm listening, but wasn't aware of before

Window open, birds started singing about 5 mins ago. Nothing else:-)

the fridge
the radio
dd making porridge

The radio
The kettle
The sound of other people moving and very faint voices but not what is being said

Birds tweeting, DS door opening quietly, some movement in the kitchen downstairs, possibly the cat.

Dh slow deep breathing beside me and the white noise machine.
The birds singing outside the window

Thunder and hailstones, we have snow 🥶☃️❄

Pigeons, sparrows, doves, blue tits and a robin. The hum of our boiler. No cars or people.

Birds singing

Coldplay on the radio
Birds outside
Boiler humming away to itself

Birds singing. Curlews calling. Chickens enjoying their first day of freedom since December. Kids in distance. Horse in the garden mooching about.

I live in the doorstep of a park. My lounge window is open and I can birds tweeting, children screaming in the distance, dogs barking and people chatting. All happy sounds

Washing machine on spin downstairs, dog nails scraping on lino as he walks (foot dragger) multiple birds tweeting outside, background tinnitus.

A light plane over my house very low

Any Answers on iSounds and a distant siren.

Fridge humming
Daughter sipping coffee

@Twoforthree Welcome to the tinnitus club.....

@Frownette

A few people have said tinnitus, how bad is it? I can hear a very low level hum when it's quiet at night but I think that's just things like e.g. fridge, radiator hum etc

Depends on the person that's experiencing it.

I went from being able to hear the constant sound of domestic transformers when it was allegedly silent to hearing a constant hiss like when there's audio equipment switched on and power going to the speakers but no music playing. But just in the one ear.

It's usually something I'm aware of but not too terrible. However, when I have a cold, it's fucking horrific on both sides; had a chat with a BSL interpreter at work one day when we both had a cold and the majority of the conversation was us making gestures rather like explosions going on in our ears, swearing about partners who FUCKING MUMBLE and FUCKING TURN AWAY or FUCKING COVER THEIR MOUTHS and then they FUCKING SAY 'IT DOESN'T MATTER'.

Current noises are DP upstairs playing guitar (just the sounds of the strings as he's got headphones on), C4 news, the cat fountain, next door going out, the hot water clicking on and the boiler firing up, the cat scratching the top of her head, the freezer - and the fucking tinnitus.