Weird sounds you like

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I have a white noise app on my phone and often play the vacuum cleaner, clothes dryer, or dishwasher sounds, or some combination of the three. On some level, it reminds me of the happy parts of my childhood with my mom cleaning the house, and later, me doing chores on my own. It also reminds me of a comfortable, productive day spent at home, because I often feel like I’m rushing from one thing to the next.

I like manual typewriters, old 1920s car engines & other machinery, and antique clocks and pocket watches.

Purrs, boing sounds (makes me happy and flail), sewing machine or car motors that sound like purring or like duhduhduhduhduh, the train horn makes me happy (but not an 18-wheeler horn), nice crunches while eating, wind chimes, sandpaper on wood, and a crowd in the distance only if it's far away, faint, and is a similar pitch and tone (it creates a sort of white noise)

I love to hear someone else putting away cutlery in the drawer if I'm in another room. Like Wild Colonial said, it reminds me of when I was little. If I would be sick in bed my mother would make me soup and I would hear her in the cutlery drawer getting a spoon. Also, it's just nice knowing someone else is cleaning my kitchen.

I also love the sound of sailboat masts when they clang in the wind. Flagpoles too.

The periodic soft click sound my oven makes as it heats, which reminds me something is cooking.

The sound when a car drives over gravel on a hot day.

(Then wind, rain, ice on windows, and children's choirs. But - I guess none of that is weird).

I love a certain cat video with Siamese cats meowing while their owner is taking a shower. It reminds me of my own cat, Samantha. It brings back fond memories of a very special cat who was in my life for 20 years.

I like the sounds related to my favorite sport, tennis, except for the shrieking sounds of most WTA players.

Rain is the best for me. If I don't hear it in some span off time I really want it to rain.

My kid has me repeat the same sounds again and again. That makes him overjoyed.
The moo sound. It used to be different songs..

Boy I miss this book.. It was ruined when one of them covered it in water while flooding the kitchen ...

But you can see how happy he is from the sound.



Usually I have to do it (moo sound) or rewind other sounds on Youtube repeatedly for HOURS( not exaggerating..) Daily. Often I spend my time on Wrongplanet
while rewinding. His videos..

with my moms ipad that she lent us(. Since he broke the laptop)



He likes to interact as you repeat the sound.

I was so happy when he took to this book as he could control it and didn't rely on me..


Edit to add he was too weak to press for the sound repeatedly so it ended up being me anyway

He used to have me sing the same song lyric again and again for hours .. Example


(Usually it was accompanied by a particular way of carrying him and I had to teach others how to carry him that way .it was like a dance .
Actually similar to the dance that the WP member Ahogday does..)



But yeah.. This for hours and hours every day even nights.. Since he hardly slept.. N it was the one thing that kept him from crying from his pain .

There are only some sounds n song lyrics (1-2 lines) that work for him.. It's trial and error.. But he needs it like how we need water..


Autism and auditory sounds is an interesting topic..

I like that soft bell tinkle that they add to some ebooks. I doubt if most people notice it's there, barely noticeable.

My Victrola is almost a friend to me.

The one in the picture isn't mine, but it is the same model. Mine was abandoned in a barn, sold to an antique store fifty years later, and very nearly ended up scrapped as it was nearly impossible to get anyone interested in a shabby old broken Victrola. It was on the verge of being cut up into a file cabinet. I ended up bringing it home. Thus followed a month-long parts hunt as I scavenged all over for any pieces new and old that would make it whole again. It is working great five years later and is in the corner of the room right now as I type, filled to the brim with classic records from the 1910s and 1920s.


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I like manual typewriters and old-time pedal sewing machine sounds. I think it does remind me of my childhood.

Start up sounds or closing sounds, my favourites are Hanna Barbera swirling star, Windows 95 & 98 start up sounds, ABC Australia train indent, and Dreamcast start up. I can listen to these for minutes at a time despite only lasting a few seconds each.