Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Has any research been done on psychological effects of repetitive sounds?

Although I previously thought nothing of it, I have realized that I am extremely sensitive to repetitive sounds. I use certain sounds to calm me (certain clocks ticking, using a stethoscope to listen to my heart beat, listening to one song play again and again for hours, the ocean's waves, rhythmic breathing, water running) and other sounds are infuriating to me (people wearing sweatpants bouncing their leg up and down creating a noise as the fabric rubs, chewing, slurping, snoring, dripping water from a leaky faucet, screeching from mechanical pencils as they are written with) while still other repetitive noises have little or no effect on me ( hammering, someone drumming their fingers or tapping a pen or pencil.) Is this normal? Is this related to any psychiatric disorders? Can anyone point me to some research on why certain sounds have certain effects on me? And yes, I googled "psychological effects of repetitive sounds" and got this article a href="http://crca.ucsd.edu/~syadegar/MasterThesis/node10.html" rel="nofollow"http://crca.ucsd.edu/~syadegar/MasterThe…/a which i don't think was very useful or easy to understand, so please don't give me that link.

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