I still can’t rest,
Until I’ve got this off my chest,
But the creaking of floorboards above me,
Is making me so stressed;
Now I’m aware, how my reaction to it,
Is dependent upon my mental state,
βIntensive exercise used to help with this,
Although it had a half-life, then,
And the benefit would abate;
But this is a problem of unseen disturbances;
βSensory events that you do not see coming;
Another example would be somebody else vacuuming,
Which is a bad enough noise in itself,
But when whose timing is unknown and also punctuated,
Is horrifying and exhausting;
And when the heavy-set guy above me,
Starts moving around with absolute suddenty,
It’s an explosion of noise,
A staccato ignition,
Coming completely unexpectedly,
And demanding my full attention;
My body, reacting to danger;
Suffuses with instant stress,
And my ever-shortening fuse,
Leads to ever-worsening temper.
And I barely have any hearing in my left ear…
So it’s somewhat ironic and confusing,
That I remain so sensitive to sound,
βThough, having said that,
My right ear is hypersensitive,
So, conceivably,
It’s also a problem of directionality.
πͺ
Reminds me of Edgar Allen Poeβs, The Tell-Tail Heart.
His was Below
yourβs is Above
and a creak
your
disturbing
heart
be!
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Haha! π, seems your mind connects to disparate memories and bits of information like mine.
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Wonderfully expressed, Robin.
I feel for you!
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Thanks Margie!! π€
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I understand when there is noise sometimes I have directionly problem of knowing where it is coming from and yet I can hear what others cannot. Noise urgh, construction of houses or appartments build so they are invasive.
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Hi Puzzles, yes that sounds like me! I once stayed with a friend in Hong Kong who lived in a tower next to another one whose foundations were just being constructedβ the noisiest part of the whole process! I was jet-lagged and couldn’t sleep at night, and that noise during the day…oh man!! Even distant building noise is so disturbing, with the repetitiveness and jarringness of it.
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Thanks a lot for commenting ππ
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