Each time it thunders we get it pretty loud over here as a young adult ive been thinking im gonna have to put some measures in place like I might have to have a bucket or bin or something by my bed next it thunders or natural disaster. I DONT like loud noises esp extremely loud noises i get such shock that I nearly throw up . One vivid time that i can look back and see i had noise anxiety was with our first earthquake. I havent chucked yet but I see its may very well happen . if im frank i think it is going to happen just thinking im gonna have to do something about this .You the same? or got any useful tips or helpful websites?
My neighbor has been burglarized twice this year, so he got a great dane guard dog. It's bark began costing me sleep, sounding like a car horn. The dog barks at the slightest movement outside and even barks at us when making a sudden noise in our home at night. My grand daughters are very afraid of thunder, jumping into bed with us.
I got a solution from a naturopathic doctor.
Go to
mynoise.net It's free, put up by a sound engineer. There are a lot of sounds that help sleep, anxiety, masking noises. I run "White Rain" all night, which I set up to filter out the neighbor's dog. You have to experiment with it. If you donate $10 a year you can get personal help from Dr Pigeon. When it thunders with the girls here overnight, I put on one of the thunderstorm files. Those sort of deafen you to the sudden thunders, and the girls sleep right through storms now.
I had to get a pair of hearing aids last year, losing high frequency human voice perception. The $4,000 was a good investment, insurance paid $2,500 of that. But now the better news. The White Rain has been retraining my brain to focus on substitute sounds so that now I hardly use them. I think the key is using the Calibrated Hearing Curve feature. In a quiet setting I can at last hear everyone speaking! TV speech is not muffled. They are still handy to control loud crowd noise in restaurants. I have tinnitus in both ears from damage in the Navy years that was like a symphony orchestra tuning up. But now there are half as many tones, and the volume is down 70% according to my audiologist.
I found it best not to use your built-in computer speakers or cellphone speakers. Heavy use like this app can damage them eventually. There is a mobile app for mynoise, by the way. Plug in earphones or a stereo system. High quality speakers make Mynoise a much more effective experience.
I hope this helps you. It's been a big blessing to my family.
