Sleepless sleepless sleepless...

[etakyma]

Sometimes, in the suburban parking lots near my neighborhood, tractor trailer trucks overnight. The state thru-way rumbles by less than a mile from here, and I can usually hear some of the traffic on quiet nights - and in my neighborhood all the nights are quiet. We'd have to be having huge storms for it not to be quiet.

Tonight, the subsonic rumble from *something* (I suspect one of those tractor trailer trucks) is driving me out of my mind. And keeping me up. It isn't exactly a sound - but there is a definite (if subtle and very very low) vibration. I feel like there is atmospheric pressure on my ears - but that isn't quite right to describe this feeling/sound/whatever either. The best I can tell it is similar to that thing that makes noise-canceling earphones so uncomfortable for me to use - I hate them, can't use them.

I can't fall asleep - and the constant rumble/pressure/pain has me keyed up.

To sum up - I DON'T LIKE IT MAKE IT STOP!

I suppose it doesn't help that my house is a slab ranch - meaning its foundation is a flat concrete slab that house sits on. No basement.

Comments

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. I have huge windchimes (that I did not hang and am not allowed to silence or remove) right outside my window. Each chime/metal tube is 4" in diameter and three feet long and made of metal that's about 1/3" thick. On windy days, the jangling and clanging and echoing long-note-reverb is ceaseless.

I'll trade ya.

[etakyma.livejournal.com]

All the same to you you can keep the chimes (so sorry!). I've found if I play music really really softly (at the lowest volume) it takes my concentration off the vibration and I can fall asleep. I can use almost anything for this, but musical theatre, classical, and singer/songwriter folk kind of works the best of the music I have access to - I have to keep the hard-driving rock for something else!

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't think hard rock would help you sleep. ;-)