Hearing lights in stores.

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My 7 yr old told me tonight it sounds like the lights are going to break and fall. He said that it scares him. He is out of control while in stores and at least now I know why.I was just wondering if any one has the same problem and what has helped you or your children.

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He is PROBABLY hearing the gas, or a bad ballast or mount, but only HE really knows. Maybe you can have him wait somewhere that is safe, and give him something to do. Otherwise, leave him at home. If I feel that way, I just want to get out! BTW I HAVE heard poorly mounted ballasts that were bad. LUCKILY, they are usually ABOVE the bracket, and won't cause a problem for visitors, but it IS disconcerting.

Steve

I've heard those metal-halide lamps in big warehouse stores on occasions make a metallic rattling noise. They seem to resonate their aluminum diffusers with the 60-cycle AC power hum coming from their transformers. Maybe that's what he's hearing. To me, if I didn't know better, it sort of sounds like the bulbs are about to explode.

When flourescent lamps start flickering when they wear out, they can make a PZZT type sound as they strobe on and off. Doesn't sound to me like they are going to fall off, but when I was young, it was a little daunting sounding

Heh, familiar. I often hear sounds from lights in stores and it does make me nervous. And I am 31, lol. I am always looking up at things, imagining the catastrophe if they fell.

Huh, I don't think I've noticed this once. I actually like having a lot of light (I fall asleep quicker with them on rather than off) and I've never really heard them.

Ugh. Yes. I can identify with this.

It's tube lights. Flourescent bulbs-- the ones that they keep saying would reverse global warming and save the puppies-- don't do this. But there's sometihng about tube lights... every once in a while one while get out of whack and I can hear it and/or see it flicker. It's highly unpleasant. I've learned to deal with it, but I think one of the reasons I married my (NT) wife is that she has the same problem.

I hear flourescent lights hum. Sometimes they flicker when they get old and that annoys the heck out of my eyes, but even flickering ads on websites do that. My opthamologist told me long ago that my eyes are very light sensitive, so I guess that's why.

By the way, the hum of lights doesn't bother me, but I wasn't around flourescent lights that often until I was 17 and went to college. My mother just left me at home. I would just stop and stare at them otherwise, mainly because I didn't know what it was. I also hear them more as light background noise. He sounds like he is really getting bombarded by that message of sound.

My opinion? Find out about lights with your child and explain it to him. If he understands what's going on and the fear goes away, then he hears the noise in an amplified manner, but not a painful one. If he understands and still freaks out, then the sound is painful to him because it's amplified (at least in the amount of message he's receiving in his brain) and you need to respect that. If I locked you in a room and blasted you with sound that was 20,000 times what you normally hear, you wouldn't be feeling too great yourself. You just need to understand the problem from a logical level and deal with it from there. It will be much easier for both of you to handle if you do that. Does that make sense?

I like the sound of fluorescant lights. I find them soothing, like there's someone there in the room keeping me company. I guess I'm a Ned Flanders.

Maldoror,

You might only hear them like I do, as background noise. I like noisy air vents at work because they are white noise to me and block out all the other noises (voices really bother me), but they drive other AS people crazy at work. I think it's all in how much message is getting across. Some people get less of a message (hyposensitive), some get just a little more of a message (hypersensitive, but just a little) and some people are basically pounded with the message (hypersensitive, but very much so). We're all at different places on the spectrum. That's why we all react differently.

Zanne

I can hear the buzz and hum of older fluorescents too and see them flicker every nanosecond which annoys me. I've noticed regardless of city, the lights at Super Target stores are the worst and have even had parents of young auties tell me they have meltdowns in that store. I always feel like I am going to have a seizure when I go in Target. If you ever see me in Target get out of the way because I race through the store like a madwoman trying to get what I need and get out.

Once this guy told me that fluorscent bulbs could carry phone conversations and that I had better be careful what I say. Anyone else heard of that?

I HATE florencent lights. HATE HATE HATE! The bluish tint to the light, I can see them flicker on and off at the edge of my conscienceness. At least put a diffuser over the damn things!

I wonder where it would carry them to?


Strangelove, I like the Corgi.

i can hear lights too... and things with kinda low electrical tones as well...

if it's quiet enough... these thrummings kinda turn into a song and used to serve as a pastime for me as a child.

I like the sounds of some lights, I hate the sounds of others, I hate flourescents, they're effing evil with their constant flashing and their just, grr, evilness

Yes I hear electricity being transducing into light via archaic human technology (Led is in-audible)

-I used to look up at the Flouros in primary school, usually I was the only one looking, I could hear the change in frequency due to some sort of outside influence. (Sometimes you can hear the influence too - the frewuency of the back emf actully producing the disturbance in the particular tube)

-Those big halogen bulbs are even noisier - even the normal cen hear them.

-As for being scared of them - totally understandable, I was scared of sand ... the texture was disconcerting... but know I love the beach (Yet some beach sands I still don't like)

electricity does make a noise, i like it though. i also like the noise the refidgerator makes. it kindof feels like whats inside my body, i'm guessing spirit? noises that bother me, surrond sound on a tv.