tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post4096860859019958180..comments2024-03-15T04:01:53.036-04:00Comments on Cranky Fitness: What Do You Mean You're Not Surprised?Crabby McSlackerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12108791388350253344noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-7633114907879144252007-11-02T16:27:00.000-04:002007-11-02T16:27:00.000-04:00Crabby -- nice and slowly -- lift your hands off t...Crabby -- nice and slowly -- lift your hands off the keyboard and step away from the computer. :)Bob Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07251531486621495599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-66440636389232441752007-11-01T21:17:00.000-04:002007-11-01T21:17:00.000-04:00Cindy, you're the first person I ever heard of say...Cindy, you're the first person I ever heard of say something nice about an MRI. Should I ever have that pleasure, I'll have to think: ignor the claustraphobia, just try to find the dang beat!Crabby McSlackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12108791388350253344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-6241525332472448742007-10-31T21:44:00.000-04:002007-10-31T21:44:00.000-04:00Oh yea...someone mentioned looking for the pattern...Oh yea...someone mentioned looking for the pattern in white noise? I've had several MRIs....sounds like a jackhammer and something knocking....and I find the rhythm in it and almost want to tap my feet!Alcinda (Cindy) Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14950698583878546323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-90610356123750003172007-10-31T21:39:00.000-04:002007-10-31T21:39:00.000-04:00When I was a kid I clearly heard someone saying my...When I was a kid I clearly heard someone saying my name...and then I read I Never Promised You A Rose Garden...a story about a girl becoming schizophrenic!! <BR/><BR/>So far so good (I'm 53), although my kids might disagree! :)<BR/><BR/>I have constant ringing and noise in my ears....head noise they call it. Most of the time it's barely there, but sometimes it gets really loud. <BR/><BR/>I go to bed with the TV on, with a timer set. When I was a kid we all slept with radios on, all night. TV or radio (I've not had good radio reception in years!) has to be loud enough that I can understand what they say, but low enough that it doesn't disturb me!Alcinda (Cindy) Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14950698583878546323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-42924960787892134482007-10-31T10:06:00.000-04:002007-10-31T10:06:00.000-04:00Mary, um, wasn't he the Lord of the Flies guy? So...Mary, um, wasn't he the Lord of the Flies guy? Somehow it makes that quote less reassuring!<BR/><BR/>And Meg--well, I'm not bipolar or on anti-psychotic drugs but I also agree totally on the radio thing: radios turned down way low are indeed annoying. I can't just shut it out, I have to try to make out what they're saying.Crabby McSlackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12108791388350253344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-8527613075806323412007-10-31T02:36:00.000-04:002007-10-31T02:36:00.000-04:00Oh my gosh, I'm so, so glad I'm not alone!It happe...Oh my gosh, I'm so, so glad I'm not alone!<BR/><BR/>It happens to me all the darn time. I can't drive without the radio on because I hear things. I'm someone who generally prefers silence but sometimes it gets to me. Just the other day I was trying to take a nap and kept thinking I was hearing church chimes playing some song. Not chimes were really playing until about a half hour layer at 6, knew it really was the church chimes. I do that all the time, thinking I hear bells or chimes from churches. I love to hear them when they really play, maybe it's wishful thinking.<BR/><BR/>I have this horrible pet peeve when people turn the music down in the car so it's just barely audible so they can order fast food or talk. I'd much rather they just shut it off. That lower volume gives me the creeps.<BR/><BR/>It is worth mentioning, perhaps, that I do have bipolar disorder and take an anti-psychotic drug twice a day. I've even had stupid doctor diagnose me as schitzophrenic. But you know, whatever. I have my illness under control and all my other things in order. i now think I'm more sane than most people...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-55676155859656763092007-10-31T01:21:00.000-04:002007-10-31T01:21:00.000-04:00Wow, a lot of interesting comments. All I can thin...Wow, a lot of interesting comments. All I can think to add is a quote from William Golding:<BR/>"Normality is a condition only arbitrarily definable."The Merryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09660495393832517684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-13899191194608845092007-10-31T00:20:00.000-04:002007-10-31T00:20:00.000-04:00Sarah, so breast pumps talk too? Fortunately, tha...Sarah, so breast pumps talk too? Fortunately, that's one voice I probably won't ever hear, but if my Sound Soother every gets lonely and wants to chat, I'll know yet one more gadget it can hook up with. (And sorry, since I was in Obsessive Comment Response Mode, that I missed yours the first time through, especially since it made me giggle).<BR/><BR/>Frank, as I recall you have some clothing items which are pretty "loud" as well--but I'm sure Benny has some important information for you so I'd pay strict attention when he talks if I were you...<BR/><BR/>Noah, we missed you! Hope you have been happily gallivanting across continents having awesome adventures. I'm so glad you're almost as neurotic as I am with the voices and the heartbeats and the fear of fl... oh no wait, you don't have that one. <BR/><BR/>You too Thomma Lyn? That makes me feel better. Because you seem so level-headed and un-weird. And I didn't know you composed music! Yet somehow, with all your talents, I'm not surprised.Crabby McSlackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12108791388350253344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-71634891657420449512007-10-31T00:05:00.000-04:002007-10-31T00:05:00.000-04:00Oh... my... goodness... the same thing happens to ...Oh... my... goodness... the same thing happens to me. So many nights when hubby and I go to bed, I hear voices or music, and I am so convinced we've left the TV on that I have to get up and check. It's that clear. And I ascertain we haven't, lay back down, and start hearing the voices and the music again. Hubby and I leave a fan running at night, which helps, and if I deliberately don't concentrate on hearing the voices and/or the music, it dissolves.<BR/><BR/>It's kind of cool, though -- I'm a musician and like to compose music, and sometimes I come up with some pretty neat tunes that way! ;-DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-9537231812242958182007-10-30T23:49:00.000-04:002007-10-30T23:49:00.000-04:00I thought I was the only one that heard voices in ...I thought I was the only one that heard voices in those sound machines. My significant other got one for Christmas one year and I think it lasted less than a week in our bedroom. I kept hearing whispers, like creepy alien abduction whispers. She though I was crazy, but I made her get rid of it and go back to the fan. Glad to see I'll have some friends in the psych wing.<BR/><BR/>Someone mentioned ear plugs. A lot of flight attendants wear them, but I never could. All I hear is my hearbeat and my breathing, its too quiet, drives me nuts. I grew up in the city and am used to all the noises. We spent the weekend at a cabin in the mountains one time and the quiet weirded me out.noahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05523876233442902676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-38412320842139820062007-10-30T20:46:00.000-04:002007-10-30T20:46:00.000-04:00I hear voices quite often when no one's around and...I hear voices quite often when no one's around and used to think I was nuts until I realized it was the dog.Frank Baronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07766219281485749395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-5963083340047486682007-10-30T19:52:00.000-04:002007-10-30T19:52:00.000-04:00Whoa, Dr. J & TK--those are creepy stories! I nev...Whoa, Dr. J & TK--those are creepy stories! I never hear the sort of voice that's talking TO me--just an announcer type voice that seems to be yammering on about nothing. But if I ever do, hell, I better listen to it!<BR/><BR/>(And Hilary, there must be something about showers that creates the phone ringing sound because our shower does that too).<BR/><BR/>Jeff, night terrors sound awful! I've heard they seem really, really real, much more so than normal nightmares.<BR/><BR/>And soap box girl, I think you were right, and the devil DOES live in the tv set!<BR/><BR/>(But yeah, I agree, I'd know it by now if I really was gonna get schizophrenia).Crabby McSlackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12108791388350253344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-28059885553116620292007-10-30T19:43:00.000-04:002007-10-30T19:43:00.000-04:00Interesting post! When I was little my Dad would f...Interesting post! When I was little my Dad would fall asleep with the TV on, back when stations when off air around 1 am or so. Anyway, I would wake up and that noise would scare the sh*t out of me. I thought the devil lived in there. I never heard voices, but I was terrified of it. (What can I say? I was strange.)<BR/><BR/>Anyway, if you had schizophrenia it would soon become very apparent. Go rent "A Beautiful Mind"! (Besides I thought the disease showed up during the early twenties.)soapbox girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00909388814943298370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-55539938377377910392007-10-30T19:25:00.000-04:002007-10-30T19:25:00.000-04:00Hilary, the Bag Lady hears the non-existent phone ...Hilary, the Bag Lady hears the non-existent phone ringing in the shower, too, but only when she leans her head back to rinse the shampoo out of her hair.<BR/>Also wanted to add that out here in the country, it isn't traffic noises that keeps me awake, it's the F***ing Hot Flashes!! And the coyotes howling. And the frogs in the summer. And the woodpeckers on the tin roof of the pump-house....The very worst, though, are the damned loons in the spring. It's enough to send you to the loonie bin...gee, wonder what the correlation is there?the Bag Ladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17434610508260994331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-75707317289605614842007-10-30T18:27:00.000-04:002007-10-30T18:27:00.000-04:00Even though this is sort of OT, Dr. J is correct! ...Even though this is sort of OT, Dr. J is correct! If it's an emphatic voice out of "nowhere" and not something one would be on meds for, it's worth paying some attention to! Years back I parked a car in a spot off the road with other cars, a voice said PULL IT UP, don't leave it like that, it will GET HIT! I had it half a car length past all the cars beside it, told the voice no way and left. Half hour later I hear screeching tires and a huge bang, and knew instantly it was our car.. The "protective" cars had moved. It had been hit so hard (it was a very heavy '65 Lincoln Continental!) that the rear end was shoved 6 feet over. The driver ran. Now of course, we'd taken collision off a couple months before, so you know it was inevitable. <BR/>Also, sitting in my van in a parking lot about 15 years ago, I had a sudden feeling of dread that I needed to get OUT of there, but got stuck behind a car waiting for another to pull out, with a car behind me. Wham! A guy backed into the side of my van so hard from a parking space right next to me that it rocked my van badly and put a 3' x 4' crush area in my sliding door. He didn't "see me" because he supposedly was looking right through my big custom rear windows. If he'd looked in his side mirror he couldn't have missed me! <BR/>Another time I was "told" not to leave my parrot at my Gram's house. I actually had the car almost backed out to the street, the "voice" was now screaming at me, so I went back in and got the bird, and then all was quiet. I don't know what would have happened, (I had a sense that the Elkhound would have grabbed her) but it would have been awful! <BR/>Lots of other stuff like this; I like to think it's our 6th sense connection to a universal consciousness, a much higher form of intuition, or even a guardian angel of some kind. Whatever, I trust it now!TKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15747390418220178858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-23824455058618396102007-10-30T17:12:00.000-04:002007-10-30T17:12:00.000-04:00I've heard 'the voice' one time. It happened one d...I've heard 'the voice' one time. It happened one day as I was running on the edge of a highway, where the cars go 55 mph at least. I was running toward the traffic and the road was clear on my side. Suddenly I heard very clearly: " GET OFF THE ROAD!" in my mind. I stepped into the grass and within less than a second, a car passing another from behind me, went right through the area where I would have been running!!<BR/>This was a one time thing, take it as you will, but if YOU ever hear that voice, I suggest, from my one experience, that you listen!<BR/>Dr. JAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-48409471443060172182007-10-30T17:08:00.000-04:002007-10-30T17:08:00.000-04:00I don't hear voices, but I do see people, and spid...I don't hear voices, but I do see people, and spiders, and snakes. I have night terrors, which while somewhat amusing in my small mother, is not so funny when the person thrashing psychotically around the room and trying to punch and strangle people is big old weightlifting, kickboxing, 6'6" me. I went on medication after I nearly broke my foot stomping the metal frame of a bed while trying to stomp a snake.<BR/><BR/>Hope that makes you feel less crazy.<BR/><BR/>I sleep with a fan for the noise.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08341012923993473537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-23325321113802746552007-10-30T16:18:00.000-04:002007-10-30T16:18:00.000-04:00My first thought was "HOLY CRAP!" I have THIS to l...My first thought was "HOLY CRAP!" I have THIS to look forward to too, along with bad joints, nose hair and no Social Security???! But your post was so HYSTERICAL I thought oh so what, I'll be in good company, especially after reading all the comments, thanks guys! :D<BR/>We also use a fan all year 'round, I don't often "hear" voices in it but once in awhile, mostly if I'm sleepy, I think it's as noted, just a smart brain working too hard, the aural equivalent of seeing images in grilled cheese sandwiches and oil stains on garage floors. I have a clock that does nighttime noises but DH claimed it when he moved in. I used to put it on "stream" which actually sounded like "ocean", as "ocean" sounded like a toilet flushing! I liked "rainforest" but there was a frog in there that would come in just seldom enough to startle me. I also have tinnitus and get the odd whistle or hum, and sometimes a sudden deafness feeling in one ear. DH also has the constant background static of tinnitus, so we both have decided it's just that we're tuned in to the Universal OM.TKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15747390418220178858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-77652959957652870602007-10-30T15:46:00.000-04:002007-10-30T15:46:00.000-04:00Just had to say this about that: a breastpump at t...Just had to say this about that: a breastpump at three a.m. one or ten weeks into the life of newborn twins will say really crazy things.<BR/><BR/>Just another crazy lady readin' your blog who should be working...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-44685647864361608772007-10-30T15:11:00.000-04:002007-10-30T15:11:00.000-04:00Oh great! Up until now, I've only consistently hea...Oh great! Up until now, I've only consistently heard the phone ring every time I'm in the shower, even though call display indicates there was no such call. I've just recently been talked into using a fan as white noise to help me sleep. Now I'm going to lie awake listening for voices. Thanks a LOT, people! <BR/><BR/>Bag Lady, I hear my pulse, heatbeat and heavier breathing when I'm wearing my iPod too, but I'm always walking very quickly at the time... ;)Hilaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12787493532006658679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-1696490088273320932007-10-30T13:09:00.000-04:002007-10-30T13:09:00.000-04:00javachick--maybe you're hearing ghosts and are jus...javachick--maybe you're hearing ghosts and are just more perceptive than the rest of the world!<BR/><BR/>bunnygirl, you're such a healthy gal it's hard for me to picture you totally drunk!<BR/><BR/><BR/>And bag lady--I'm with you on earplugs. Not only do they feel icky in my ears but I too don't like the heartbeat sounds etc. (I have pvc's, which means it sounds like my heart is often skipping a beat, and though it's not supposed to be anything to worry about I do worry about it so I prefer not to hear it!)<BR/><BR/>Melissa, glad to hear you are a Freak like the rest of us! And thanks for the cd recommendations.<BR/><BR/>OK, I seem to have fallen back into Obsessive Comment Response Mode...must leave laptop and get some things done in the "real world"...Crabby McSlackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12108791388350253344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-76694436192500374372007-10-30T13:05:00.000-04:002007-10-30T13:05:00.000-04:00Whew!!! Thank God for these comments--I was freak...Whew!!! Thank God for these comments--I was freaking out thinking I was going to be schizophrenic. Though surely at my age it would have happened already???<BR/><BR/>I use fan noise, and can hardly sleep without it. But yes,,,,,,sometimes I'm convinced the television is on out in the living room or the girls' room. But when I sit up in bed and listen, it goes away. And music too. Sometimes it's really loud, and sometimes just barely audible (audible??). Now I'm used to it and I just ignore it.<BR/><BR/>I can't do music at all. I'm a musician, and it's like someone talking to me.<BR/><BR/>Hey though, since the subject arose, I just bought a couple classical CDs that a harpist friend of mine made, that I think are going to be wonderful relaxing music and might be good for sleeping to if you like to sleep to music. I haven't got them yet, but you might check out the demos at www.victoriadrake.com to see if they're your thing.<BR/><BR/>I can't do things in my ears either, Crabby. And you are the greatest. I laugh so hard at you!!! In a good way I mean.Melissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12785796365378274088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-40773911272112904642007-10-30T12:43:00.000-04:002007-10-30T12:43:00.000-04:00Just had to add - the Bag Lady can't stand to wear...Just had to add - the Bag Lady can't stand to wear earplugs 'cause then she starts obsessing about her laboured breathing or her heart beating too fast...OMG, maybe she IS crazy (now why would anyone think someone who always refers to herself in the third person was nuts, hmmm?)the Bag Ladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17434610508260994331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-26010893292004764722007-10-30T12:24:00.000-04:002007-10-30T12:24:00.000-04:00The only time I can recall hearing things in white...The only time I can recall hearing things in white noise is when I was way too drunk to know what the heck I was hearing anyway. Maybe there really WAS someone there!<BR/><BR/>I don't make much use of white noise, though, so I'm relatively inexperienced with it. When I need quiet, I use earplugs.Ann (bunnygirl)https://www.blogger.com/profile/04938134750150653386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1704170106558126102.post-38554609284107380172007-10-30T12:10:00.000-04:002007-10-30T12:10:00.000-04:00Hi Crabby. I have problems with my ears - won't bo...Hi Crabby. I have problems with my ears - won't bore you with the details, but the short version is I have some hearing loss, plus I have chronic noise in my ears. I guess that's sorta like walking around with white noise built into my head.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I do often think I hear something - will often say to the husband "What? Did you say something?" To which he will reply "No, you are hearing things again." I have kind of thought maybe it was me overcompensating for the fact that I don't hear well, so I'm always afraid I'm missing something. <BR/><BR/>As for How I Get To Sleep At Night...I wear ear plugs. Didn't like the idea at first, but I like sleep and I need sleep, so I gave in and it works for me.JavaChickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06816858010039395389noreply@blogger.com