in my new house i can hear/ feel a sort of surging electrical vibration... could i be sensitive to electricity??

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ok, i moved into my new house a few months ago, and after being here just a few weeks, i noticed, in the dead of night, that i can hear/feel a repepitive vibration. its really hard to explain, but its like a kind of surge of electrical power (which should surely be silent- but i'm sure its electrical in origin). it makes a low persistent vuh-vuh-vuh-vuh sound. its very annoying and does not seem to be coming from any appliance. it is stronger in some rooms in the house, and i can still hear it with the electricity off... so , am thinking it could be environmental. yet when i go outside i cant hear it! wierdly, i can sometimes hear this noise when i'm in the car with the windows shut and engine off. could it be coming from the overhead electricity cables??

sorry if this sounds a bit mad, but am intrigued to know if anyone else has similar sensitivities! its not tinitus, btw, just incase you were wondering, lol!

very odd, tref. the thing with tinitus- and i should know as i do have it- is that you can hear it more when you block your ears, as you reduce environmental sound, so there's nothing to mask it. can you hear yours if you block your ears? my wierd electrical noise is quieter with blocked ears, so is def 'external'. hmm...

could it be your fridge? - the sound travelling

Could it be low-pitched wind noise? Could you monitor wind direction and see if there's any correlation between where the wind is coming from and whether you hear the noise?

its def not the wind- its too regular. did think for a while that fridge could be a possibility,and, as the noise heard standing next to the fridge is different from the vibration travelling through the house, that would be consistent with never finding the source of the noise, iyswim...but, i can still hear it with the power off...

YOur neighbour has a vibrator.

isn't it just the boiler turning over at night?

Are you on economy seven?

Possibly neighbour's washing machine/tumble drier set for the night=time hours?

You live in swiss/france above the LHC - it's broken but by the sound of it the repairs are progressing?

aitch, i think the boiler is a possibility, but the noise is not any stronger near the boiler. guess the sound it makes might be heard differently from upstairs. cant be the boiler when i'm in the car, though.

tsk, tsk, fabio- this is a serious health thread

mp- seems to be coming from my own house...

cups, did u mean to post elsewhere- am confused!

all i know is that i was convinced a restaurant near my house had its air conditioning on in the middle of the night and i could hear it... so annoying. then i was in beside the boiler one day and realised it was that, although it sounds nothing like it when you're nearby. sounds more like a vibration in the bedroom. heheh.

aitch, i think that could be it. also, am pretty sure the boiler is still on when the power goes off (the pilot light's not electric, is it). i suppose the big mystery is that i've gone round the house trying to locate the source. but if it sounds diff upstairs, i never would find it!

also, my dh is a bit deaf, so he cant hear it so makes it harder to identify.

Have you looked around outside near your house? There could be an electricity substation nearby and they emit an electrical hum.

weird

I had this on Friday night

had never heard it before

There is reference to this sort of thing here.

We have a pylon 30 feet from the front door and sometimes the noise drives me nuts.

'gypsies are healthier than indigenous population'? gypsies?

My fridge does a special kind of singing during the night. We call it fridgeridoo when it gets going. It's quite spooky.

healthy?

Yes, believe it or not Aitch, they do exist.www.scottishgypsies.co.uk/ Scottish gypsies]]

ah well there it gets even sillier. any fule kno that scottish ones are hand-reared on deep-fried mars bars.