Yeah! Some noises just stand out as particularly annoying.

I had a friend who could hear security systems around jewelry displays.

My hearing isn't "hyper", just "sensitive."

I wanted to throttle the guy behind me in church who was clipping his nails! (Doesn't bother me when I do it though.)

Don't repeatedly click your pen around me, please. Or hawk and spit.

I cover my ears when someone gets out of my car and "slams" (not really) the door.

But its alright if you wanna crack your knuckles, cause I do that too!

I'm not alone! LOL

Hey tkrik, I think I hear some mumbling.

AMN, yes, certain frequencies drive me nuts. LOL at the part dog. Now I know how my dogs feel. Poor little ones!

Do you also hear buzzing noises that everyone else is oblivious to? Not too long ago at work I would hear this intermittent buzzing noise and complained about it to co-workers who of course heard nothing. Never one to give up, I kept searching for the noise. Ended up it was a bad flourescent light. Called in an electrician and she (yes, SHE ) immediately found the source - it wasn't just a bulb. She found toasted wires. We had an electrical short in the wire that in theory could've burned the place down!

Hey Twinkletoes, good thing you don't work where I do. We have a couple who just love to click those pens and make all kinds of obnoxious noises. I fantasize about coming over the desk at them every once in a while. Thank goodness for self control! But now I feel safer cracking my knuckles here. LOL

YEP! I do! I've heard bad bulbs all the way across our mega store here! It's maddening. I loved it when I was able to go into the woods though, I could here and identify almost any "silent" critter from many yards.

It's also really annoying to me when I can hear those booming car stereos from the other side of an expressway. The buzz just gnaws at me.

my hearing is superhuman now,so my gf tels me,i thought i was going crazy.
i can hear people on the phone from 3 rooms away,the caller....

Me too! I hear so many things that I should not be able to hear. I will say "I hear a car door slamming in the driveway." the DH thinks I lost my mind. then the doorbell rings! he thinks I am bewitched. I can clearly hear what others are saying in a restaurant, and I can hear the dogs barking from many houses away, and YET, there are some things likeTV that I have to turn up! like certain frequencies bug me or I just cant tune into them. wild!

yeppers,I can hear the tv in the living room when I asked my kids to turn it down,they say it is mom. I go to check it,and its way down.but I can hear every word very clear.
when my hearing gets like this,I go in a whirrelwind. I put my hands over my ears,and want to scream. Talk about sensory overload.
I cant go into walmart without freaking out.
If there is noises that is too loud to me,my ears ring 10 times worse. I cant handle to much noise.

*cracks knuckles before typing*

A couple of years ago I lay/lie/laid? down in bed and could faintly hear an engine running. Took me awhile, but I finally saw a car down the alley (we live behind Main St.) I called the cops and they told me it was a guy who was too drunk to drive home. It was freezing cold, so he had his car running for the heater!

Good for you, MSCherokee. They should pay you extra for your Superman ears!

Things like that don't seem to bother DH, which is why I was the one who insisted he check out the constant sound of water running even though everything was turned off. Turns out we had a pinhole leak in an outside water line. There was a big ole muddy mess on the north side of the house.

I've had tinnitus (ringing in the ears) since I can remember. (oldest memory of it goes back to when I was about 3 or 4yrs old)

It normally doesnt bother me, but sometimes I can hear an electrical humming in my ears. I wonder if it's coincidental that there are some high tension powerlines that are just on the other side of the street that run the length of my neighborhood. If I stand below the power lines, I can hear almost the same exact humming noise coming from them.

Some noises do bother me. My parents seem to both be going deaf. (they constantly say "What?" when we're talking, and they have the tv so loud that I just want to curl up in a fetal ball and cover my ears.

They get mad at me when I ask them to constantly turn the freaking tv down.

Oh, and some frequencies bother me. My mom, for some reason known only to her, is constantly humming this off tune hum. My mom's sister hums the same tune, but thankfully she can actually sing, but it's the same tune my mom does. I think they learned it from their music teacher (same teacher that taught Faith Hill...wonder if she hums the same tuen)

That hum my mom does drives me insane. I wish she had singing talent like my aunt, because then maybe it wouldnt drive me nuts and make me want to scream. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard. Like getting feedback thru a phone or a microphone. It's not the hum itself that bugs me, because I've forced myself to sit and try to analyze why the hum bugs me. It's, I guess, the frequency that my mom hums at.

What sucks, is that it's apparently an unconcious habit she has, so just asking her to not hum doesnt work for long. She'll be back to humming within a minute or five after asking her to stop. She doesnt realize she's doing it.

MSCHEROKEE,

Spiderman got his abilities from a spider biting him. You've gotten super hearing from MS. Remember the bionic woman? You're like the bionic woman!

I know what you mean tho. I hear high pitched buzzing and I don't know if it's in my ears or somewhere else. I did find the source one time and it was something in the house. Of course DH doesn't hear any of it.

For some reason men have a reduced sense of smell and hearing. Or at least my DH does.

Sometimes I try and play soothing jazz music to drown out the other stuff. Sia and Norah Jones are much better to listen to than a buzzing noise.

I get overwhelmed by noise, especially when I am tired, but I never considered that I was actually hearing it louder then others do.

I often do hear things that others don't though . . . so maybe that's why it overwhelms me so. Interesting.

Cherie