What can you hear right now?

[YesHonestly]

Traffic in the distance.
Bird song.
Children playing on the park opposite.
My teen gaming.

Dara O’Brien telling me about pyramids.

A cross between a hum and a whistle - just the sound my tinnitus is currently taking the form of.

I'm currently sleeping in a separate bed from my husband (perimenopause insomnia) so I don't even have his breathing or the occasional snore to break it up.

I genuinely don't think I know what silence is as I have constant ringing /buzzing /humming in my ears.

Joshua Kadison singing Jessie, a song from the 90s. Just part of my inner monologue!

Gogglebox on the tv and husband snoring!

My fan in the bedroom, to drown out the tinnitus! Can’t sleep in a completely silent room as my own body noises drive me insane. Also the dog snuffling in his sleep.

• My baby grunting and thumping his legs down on the mattress because he’s fighting sleep
• The white noise playing on the Alexa that is helping him lose the fight

As I’ve typed this, it’s 1-0 to Alexa and the grunting/thumping has turned to happy little snores!

My two kitties munching their bedtime biscuits and that's it - so calm and peaceful, I love this time of night!

DS2 breathing and sucking his thumb

Waves on the beach and my Alexa at volume 1 playing an audiobook that I leave on overnight.

Nothing! It’s why I moved here

The cat on my lap making little cat snores in her sleep
DS in his room laughing & chatting with friends via Xbox
Intermittent earworm that started this afternoon. Too Sweet by Hozier

I do this with audiobooks too, it’s very soothing. Especially if Juliet Stephenson is doing the reading.
I don’t have the waves though, jealous of that!

I can’t sleep in the silence, luckily there are plenty of audiobooks up on Spotify and YouTube for us!! 😄 although so many with AI voices lately so I have to sift through to find something normal.

The hum of the fridge, and relishing that it's quiet enough to hear it!
We have the radio on a lot or I listen to audio books, so it's not a particularly noisy house, but it's a busy one so peace is welcome.

Just about to go to bed with my audio book (followed by my real book). The next noise after than will be the bastard alarm.

Car horns, engines revving, people shouting, fireworks. It's Eid.
DP and 2 cats snoring and one of them snores louder than DP 😻All oblivious to the noise outside.
Now also music from passing cars (which aren't really passing because of the traffic jam).

Motorbike in the distance
The fan on my computer
Dear Prudence playing in my head for some reason

My dog’s tummy gurgling and her deep breathing (she’s asleep on my bed). A fox outside investigating a food bin (rubbish collection tomorrow). Hopefully not mine!
A car some streets away. I live in London.

ASMR ‘slime’ noises which have FINALLY lulled by AuDHD tween to sleep. Question is, dare I turn it off yet?

My other child’s slightly sniffly sleeping breaths.

Also, a silence where our beloved old dog would be usually be sleep squeaking and groaning 💔 oh we miss him so…

My 7 week old snoring

At work so a fridge humming, a ticking clock and doors banging.

My collegues chatting at the coffee table. Some machine running in the work area. A bird chirping.

Birds chirping and seemingly having some sort of argument. And of course, some occasional noise from a nearby construction site.

My Air con unit that needs a service, bloody neighbours dragging furniture around instead of lifting it, bus horns a plenty.