Inspired by a recent thread. This question might be triggering, so be careful. For me, even imagining these sounds is mildly upsetting.

Basically, which noises immediately ruin your day? For me it’s mostly sudden loud sounds, in order of most awful descending:

Tap for sounds
  • Unmuffled compression brakes (when trucks or buses stop and go BANG)
  • Smoke detector / emergency alarms
  • Emergency services sirens
  • Balloons popping
  • Car horns / honking
  • Angle grinders
  • People practically smashing plates while violently washing dishes
  • Vacuum cleaners or other power tools
  • Yelling / screaming
  • Alarm clocks

Surprisingly I don’t seem to hate “commonly hated” sounds like: nails on chalkboard, tinnitus, knife on plate, styrofoam rubbing, microphone feedback, babies crying, chewing, snoring, flies, repetitive tapping, dog barking.

Once, I went to a birthday party where the parents let their kid jump on the balloons and pop them one by one on purpose. I had to leave immediately.

If I wear earmuffs, it basically solves the issue. So I’m careful and on the lookout for situations that could make these sounds. I cover my ears with my hands if I don’t have them on me.

  • Lexam@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    9·
    17 days ago

    My own voice. But not in the I hate my voice type of way. Ever been on a phone call where you are being echoed? That disruption voice phenomenon. I hate that.

  • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8·
    17 days ago

    Any form of expanded polystyrene rubbing/scratching against something. It is physically painful for me to listen to.

    Touching EPS induces the same response in me.

    Any type of felt-tip marker on paper/cardboard is also extremely stressful and unpleasant for me.

  • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
    7·
    17 days ago
    1. Babies crying.
    2. Children shouting/chattering/being noisy
    3. Screeching of cutlery against a plate.
    4. Screeching of chalk against a blackboard.
    5. The dull throbbing sound of friction when something semi-moist rubs against glass, like when cleaning windows under certain conditions for example.
    6. Certain people’s chewing noises (it is very person-dependant, some I don’t even think about and some almost send me into meltdown).
    7. Most phone alerts.
    8. Irregular snoring.
    • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      17 days ago

      Snoring of any kind makes me intensely furious. I want to smash their face repeatedly with a hammer while screaming at them to shut the fuck up. Same goes for loud chewing, doesn’t even have to be open-mouthed.

  • BenLeMan@lemmy.world
    5·
    16 days ago

    Tiny pebble caught under the door being dragged over a stone floor. Like chalk on blackboard, just way worse.

    People chewing and swallowing.

  • Strider@lemmy.world
    5·
    17 days ago

    Loud, erratic noises. Sudden loud laughter. Building noise. (unnecessarily) loud car. People talking at different volumes.

    Everything destroys the flow in my head.

  • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
    5·
    17 days ago

    Phones that keep ringing.

    Stuff being dropped in a quiet room.

    Loud vehicle exhausts (this has become more annoying as I’ve started driving an ev.)

    Dogs that keep barking for hours.

    • KrazyDrew222@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      13 days ago

      Yup i hate the dog barking. i love our dogs but they wont shut the fuck up. they lose there shit if a dog is outside

  • Yuki@kutsuya.dev
    4·
    17 days ago

    The sound of people eating or screaming kids. Also loud scooters. And don’t even get me started on people who call on speaker in public…

  • Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.orgEnglish
    4·
    17 days ago

    Any sound can be, if it’s played through in-ear earphones. It can even be made worse when played through low quality/cheap/older generation ones. It’s like getting stabbed in the ear by a screwdriver. It will automatically trigger fight or flight effect and i need to get those out.

    • Zarobi@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      4·
      17 days ago

      I also cannot use in-ear earphones, but because it feels really unnatural. I hate earbuds and earplugs too. Nothing goes in my ear holes 👂 ❌

      • Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.orgEnglish
        2·
        17 days ago

        Yeah, earpuds as well. Though not earplugs, so just playing sound in or too close to the ear canal rather than something in it. Earplugs are just uncomfortable, but I’m wearing those only after night shift so tired enough not to notice it.

  • TabbsTheBat (they/them)@pawb.socialEnglish
    4·
    17 days ago

    Ripping paper, the beeps of cash registers, clocks, lawn movers, and power tools and vacuums as well

    I mean, I honestly could keep going for a while =w=

  • ZMonster@lemmy.world
    3·
    17 days ago

    Knocking on doors. Small children screaming. Default, uninterrupted, and lengthy ringtones on a boomers phone as they stare at the screen like a mole seeing the sun for the first time.