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auntblabby
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20 Apr 2010, 12:14 am

Owl wrote:
Pylons are tall metal structures used to suspend power cables above ground. When you stand up close to them they produce a hum (which I like). However I don't do that too often cause of the high EMF's.


george lucas reportedly got his zapzap raygun noises from taking a ball peen hammer to the guy wires supporting power line pylons.

Owl wrote:
I like adding strange white noise to backgrounds because it reminds me of my own relationship to reality which is quite separated at times and I have a kind of hollow hum in my head that sounds like how I imagine the universe might sound if I could hear it.


somebody actually has gotten somehow, the sounds of the universe, by frequency multiplication of the existing sounds of galactic gas and ionization, etc.- it sounds weird.

Owl wrote:
I've never tried to hear voices in white noise as I have a tendency to hear things in my head which aren't always there anyway - like texts arriving to my phone when they haven't - then they arrive seconds later - or my mobile ringing in my head 10 seconds before it rings in reality. So I don't encourage it.


that sounds like bona fide psychic talent to me 8) i would encourage it, develop it into something useful or at least entertaining. just my 2-cents' worth, adjusted for inflation :)



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20 Apr 2010, 2:22 am

I can do with or without, as long as the noise doesn't have a rhyme or reason. It's part of the reason I function just fine in a busy bowling alley, but can't handle people talking in the library. (Yeah, it's easier for me to do work at a busy bowling alley than the local library...)


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20 Apr 2010, 2:29 am

LostNFound wrote:
I was just wondering how most of you relate to white noise. I understand that many Aspies loathe loud settings. I'm no exception when it comes to loud vehicles (this rocket launchers for you extended cab truck with the glasspack muffler!) and lots of voices coming at me from several directions as once. Loud music of my liking is one of the few exceptions.

But what about white noise. The hiss of television static, the roar of water in a fast river....That sort of thing.

For me it's air conditioners. Window units to be precise, but I'll take what I can get. Ever since I was a little kid my favorite way to relax or cure one of my chronic headaches was to lay up in the air conditioner vent on full blast. Between the cold air whooshing across my face and the soothing drone of the compressor I was seperated from the rest of the world. I could hear nor feel anything but that air conditioner. The world vanished. Oh I love it to this day. Sadly we are renting an apartment where I don't just have to settle for sub-par central air vents. Oh the humanity, the vents are mounted next to the ceiling! Breaks the heart.

What about you guys? White noise copacetic in any form?


White noise is sound with a uniform frequency distribution over the range of audible frequencies. It does not have to be loud. Any noise that is loud enough to destroy the inner ear (say 160 DB or louder) is unpleasant for anyone, be they on the Spectrum or not. Why do you think folks on the Spectrum react to white-noise in a different way than normal folks?

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