Hi I'm Zach. I'm 31 and from New York. I live in an apartment complex that is a really old building from the 70s.
I want your guys opinion here on what I might be hearing / not hearing as it has been causing me a great deal of stress lately and I almost lost my job over it.
A couple weeks ago I began noticing that I was hearing a very high pitched chirping noise while in my apartment. I began listening to the walls to find the culprit and I'm still unsure what the frack is making this noise. It really starts standing out at night when the sun goes down and other noises stop. But I hear this high pitched chirping noise all day / night usually.It sounds like this fast paced chirping that sounds for 2 seconds then goes quiet for one or two. It varies in its pattern but audio stimulation in this way seems to have been pulling me straight out of deep dark 1-3 hour sleeps after 24-48 hours of no sleeping from this terrible awful sound.
I have worn earplugs for years and it always puts me into a complete peaceful silence until about 2 weeks ago. It goes thru ear plugs, headphones, and everything I could jam up my ear to try to block out the noise. It's actually worse with earplugs because that's ALL I can hear.
I was thinking it was my immediate shared wall neighbor with an old school small white rotating fan. Is it that and I am hearing it's obnoxious fragmented chirping pitches when it oscillates...?
I went to another location and slept when it was so bad I thought I was going to die from sleep deprivation but I still heard different types of high pitches there as well in the house.
Do you think this is tinnitus?
I would wake to surges of adrenaline like full blown panic attacks. I know fast paced high pitched noises can do this, especially if you aren't fully aware you are being stimulated in that way 24/7. But I wasn't sure that tinnitus could pull you out of sleep.
I wasn't keen on what I was hearing until I really started paying attention and listening to figure out why I felt like I was being Korean POW sleep tortured. I had my mother come over and she couldn't pick it up but she is 20-30 years older than me and may not have as sharp hearing.
So does anyone else have a similar experience to share or could this actually be my neighbor or some neighbor's AC unit or something chirping?
The audiologist checked me out and said everything is fine but I have an MRI coming up to check for a tumor in my ear. Kind of terrifying to think that would have to be cut out and I would lose my hearing.
Edit: I went to listen again after typing this out and now it sounds like super erratic high pitched beeping noise like someone sending out a super fast Morse code. It's 1:25am here.
I want your guys opinion here on what I might be hearing / not hearing as it has been causing me a great deal of stress lately and I almost lost my job over it.
A couple weeks ago I began noticing that I was hearing a very high pitched chirping noise while in my apartment. I began listening to the walls to find the culprit and I'm still unsure what the frack is making this noise. It really starts standing out at night when the sun goes down and other noises stop. But I hear this high pitched chirping noise all day / night usually.It sounds like this fast paced chirping that sounds for 2 seconds then goes quiet for one or two. It varies in its pattern but audio stimulation in this way seems to have been pulling me straight out of deep dark 1-3 hour sleeps after 24-48 hours of no sleeping from this terrible awful sound.
I have worn earplugs for years and it always puts me into a complete peaceful silence until about 2 weeks ago. It goes thru ear plugs, headphones, and everything I could jam up my ear to try to block out the noise. It's actually worse with earplugs because that's ALL I can hear.
I was thinking it was my immediate shared wall neighbor with an old school small white rotating fan. Is it that and I am hearing it's obnoxious fragmented chirping pitches when it oscillates...?
I went to another location and slept when it was so bad I thought I was going to die from sleep deprivation but I still heard different types of high pitches there as well in the house.
Do you think this is tinnitus?
I would wake to surges of adrenaline like full blown panic attacks. I know fast paced high pitched noises can do this, especially if you aren't fully aware you are being stimulated in that way 24/7. But I wasn't sure that tinnitus could pull you out of sleep.
I wasn't keen on what I was hearing until I really started paying attention and listening to figure out why I felt like I was being Korean POW sleep tortured. I had my mother come over and she couldn't pick it up but she is 20-30 years older than me and may not have as sharp hearing.
So does anyone else have a similar experience to share or could this actually be my neighbor or some neighbor's AC unit or something chirping?
The audiologist checked me out and said everything is fine but I have an MRI coming up to check for a tumor in my ear. Kind of terrifying to think that would have to be cut out and I would lose my hearing.
Edit: I went to listen again after typing this out and now it sounds like super erratic high pitched beeping noise like someone sending out a super fast Morse code. It's 1:25am here.
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