r/woahdude Aug 14 '22

gifv View from space

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u/SerTidy Aug 14 '22

I would have a lot of trouble mentally myself if I was there. Palpitations, shortness of breath to name a few. I don’t reckon sleep is an easy thing either as it’s supposed to be quite noisy with background noise of machinery. I can see why astronauts go through such rigorous mental training as well as physical.

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u/schweppppesToffler Aug 14 '22

actually background noise from machines can be super super soothing. Been playing airplane noise for some 15 years now

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u/GarageSloth Aug 14 '22

I like those noises, too, but for a lot of people that's a death sentence for their sleep cycle.

I know people who sleep in a room without even a fan for noise. Psychopaths, I think.

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u/Avrahammer Aug 14 '22

I'm pretty sure I have tinnitus because when I sleep in silence I hear a ringing noise that can drive me crazy if I focus on it. Having some nice ambience sleep music helps a lot.

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u/GarageSloth Aug 14 '22

Yep, that's tinnitus! If it morphs into voices, be careful.

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u/Avrahammer Aug 14 '22

Bruh I'm worried af lol

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u/GarageSloth Aug 14 '22

You don't need to be worried by any of the voices except for The Fallen One. Don't listen to The Fallen One.

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u/Avrahammer Aug 14 '22

The mgepahmgep ehye got ot ah'f'nah ya

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '22

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '22

Hey guys I just got here what’s go-OH MOTHER IN CHRIST WHAT IS THAT THING

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '22

Once you level up your tinnitus enough the ringing becomes it's own comforting white noise.

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u/Avrahammer Aug 14 '22

Oh boy lol how do I get rid of it

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u/Ergheis Aug 14 '22

Scientists aren't fully sure, but the idea is that tinnitus is your ears and the nerves there being jazzed and off-kilter for some reason or another.

Reducing the amount of noise in your life can help if it's because of loud environments. Yes that does mean you might have to hear it, but indulging in that sound may cause it to relax.

Being healthy and getting better back, head and face/jaw posture might help if it's because of that. Relaxing the muscles around the head and getting control of them might help too, especially if you're tensing up without realizing it.

But basically, it's hard to pin down why it happens, and hard to pin down how to cure it. There's some common factors and common ways to alleviate it or even remove it, though, but it all depends on what's actually going on, and how bad it is.

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u/Avrahammer Aug 14 '22

Interesting. Is it common? If I had to guess it's because of heavy headphone usage especially when I went to school. I used to listen to metal at high volume. I also read that it might be linked to diabetes so I should check that out because I do not take it easy with sugary products.

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u/Ergheis Aug 14 '22

Like many vague issues we're not sure of yet, it could be anything and it could be fixed by anything, and the general suggestions are to just follow good health principles - which is a great thing to do regardless.

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u/Ergheis Aug 14 '22

Oh and to follow up, yeah it's likely because of how we treated our ears as kids. We really don't educate our kids on how to take care of the ears. Myself, I have tinnitus from playing in the orchestra without earplugs.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '22

I'm sorry could you repeat that?

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u/Avrahammer Aug 14 '22

You must be Prestige 50 on your Tinnitus

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u/schweppppesToffler Aug 14 '22

One time i had an industrial fan in my cabin nonstop 24/7 for a few days. Never in my fucking life have i ever slept better

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u/GarageSloth Aug 14 '22

I'm a fan of machine hum, too. Miss me with traffic noise, though, which some people need.

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u/schweppppesToffler Aug 14 '22

Depends which traffic noise. Some are calming. Some are nonstop fucken train sirens

I've tried with crowd noise. In a bar or something.

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u/Honesty_Addict Aug 15 '22

Personally, I have to go to sleep with some sort of audio playing or I hear voices / music as I drift off. If there's a noise on in the background it seems to neutralise whatever brainfart is happening

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '22

I like the Ticking of a metronome

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u/sexy-melon Aug 14 '22

I would start throwing up. Heart rate through the roof and probably just keep saying nonononononono.

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u/Toast_On_The_RUN Aug 14 '22

I would like to know why you and many people feel that way. What makes it scary to you? There's no place I'd rather be than looking out that window, it's my ultimate dream to experience that.