How do you cope with noise >.<

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I cannot tolerate noise of any kind. My student house has been blissfully silent... until now. At this moment the living room is occupied by a group of students whooping and crying. The living room is like an amplifier channeling the soundwaves throughout the house. I can even smell them?!

So how do you guys deal wth this. Im ridiculously stressed and trying to wade through a super serial whole tone phi composition in a few hours. I then have an essay to write and then I have to run along to uni to hand it all in.

I would start by asking the students if they can quiet down or go somewhere else as you have work to do. If that doesn't work, try earplugs or pleasant music to drown them out. If you need silence, is the library at your university open? You could go there to get your work done, and you'd have the added benefit of being right where you need to be to hand in your assignments. If this becomes a repeated problem though, you are well within your rights to tell your roommate or whomever is in charge of the students occupying your living room that such noise is unacceptable, and that they will have to find somewhere else to go when they want to behave raucously.

I'm afraid my particular approach to handling sensory overload would be ineffective in this instance as it involves shutting off all
the lights, hiding under my weighted blanket, and rocking on the floor until I no longer feel like rampaging through the house attacking people. That is not very conducive to getting a lot of work done.

I find that wearing earbuds or any kind of headphones (like Dr. Dre's or ear defenders) helps muffle offending noise. It doesn't completely cancel out the noise, but it makes it less intrusive.

I avoid living with people at all costs and, when living with people, I get out of the situation ASAP and spend most of my time away from home in the meantime.

I carry earplugs with me at all times. My husband has suggested that I get earplugs specially made for shooting. I haven't had the chance to try them yet but I'm going to. Even with earplugs, I can hear everything perfectly well -- but the earplugs take the edge off things enough to make it bearable, or in a small set of circumstances, bearable until I can genteely leave.

There are many times when I just wonder why the heck is it that NTs seem to find so much satisfaction in just making noise. I mean, small talk, music, tapping, fidgeting. Small talk is the worst for me -- it's just like blah blah blah blah blah and usually in high-pitched nasal voices. But TV isn't much better. I avoid crowds, places with loud music, and so on, but if you're in student housing it's hard to do so.

Because I realize that it wouldn't be fair to let my irritation, anger even, I get from noises out on others, I try to keep it to myself, but it makes me agitated. Sometimes people breathing can annoy me, or people eating, people having hiccups, that they themselves can't control, chattering. Do you like music? Put in some headphones and listen to music. Might make the party noise a little less bothersome.

i have a dohm sound machine turned on in my room. it is "whoosh" that blocks out all outside noises.

I think one of my former co-workers at the library might have had this issue, because she either wore earplugs or stuffed bits of Kleenex in her ears. (it was hard to tell) I guess it solved the problem for her, but the downside was that she often wouldn't respond when spoken to, because she couldn't hear you.

If noices are too much, I have to find somewhere quieter if the noise is affecting me rather badly. Otherwise most noise can be drouned out with my own music or I can attempt to filter out the sound and put full focus into something else.

I have noise cancellation earphones (Boise QT 15) and custom made ear plugs but I still get very overwhelmed by noise sometimes. I have to avoid noisy, crowded places. At home I don't cope well. I often yell at my mum when to be quiet or go and close her bedroom door when she's just making a normal, reasonable amount of living noise in her own house. Sometimes I yell at her for chewing too loudly when we eat together. I know I have no right to and I try not to but sometimes I end up doing it anyway. I really need a will-power transplant. Also, I read out-loud to myself in my room to block out noise and focus on what I'm reading. I sleep with the custom made ear plugs every night. They're good for blocking out little noises when you're trying to get to sleep.

Edit: SOmetimes music helps too. If you play a couple songs that you like or find calming or classical music in the background it can be like white noise and drown out the noise around you. Classical music is good for this because there aren't any distracting lyrics.

Short is okay, unless it is too high in pitch then I cover my ears in pain...get super alert and feel in danger. To be less stressed and verbal is why I use noise-reducing headphones just about everywhere.

wow im seeing alot* of misophonia in this thread. For anyone who doesnt know what it is take a look at this http://www.misophonia-uk.org/

Headphones or ear buds whenever possible.
Listening to either soft music or white noise.
Or whatever movie or TV show i'm watching

personally, i usually try and ignore it, end up freaking out, shutting down, or leaving the situation. sensory problems have always been an obstacle for me. sounds like Cars passing by can really make me freak out. kids laughing and screaming may make me cry or get overwhelmed, other more intense sounds will just make me cover my ears or when i was younger, scream.

In that situation, I'd use my noise-cancelling headphones, and if they didn't work, I'd go somewhere else to do my work.

I really struggle to cope with noise, the worst of all is the chaos of screaming laughing children.
Good ear plugs help but only so much.