Can't hear myself think

I need some type of noise or I go crazy... music, tv or something!!! Even at night I sleep with the tv on. If I don't I won't get a good nights rest

peaceful no.. but it isn't as noisey as you have it! i can't work with noise, at all. it drives me insane. i'm very prone to headaches and migraines so i just can't concentrate with a lot of noise. it's actually so bad that if i'm trying to have a conversation with my partner about something and the tv is on, it gets muted, dogs going mental, they get put in another room lol. that's how bad i need my quiet when i've something to think about/talk about lol!

Unlike my sister who needed quiet to study, I always studied with the t.v. on. I couldn't study with the radio on. back in the day, I either would know all the songs and sing along or I would have played some of the classical songs. So when there is some loud things outside , I just pump up the volume of my t.v.

No, I need to work in quiet.

I really, truly feel your pain. I would be a basket case if this had happened at my house. Weed abatement close to the house makes me ready to run to the other house for escape -- as long as it's not Tuesday afternoon when the gardener comes and makes a racket with the mower and the blower. I now keep the shooting earmuffs my husband bought 40 ears ago where I can put them on if escape is out of the question, but it doesn't completely block the noise -- just lowers the volume a bit. I absolutely can't concentrate if there is annoying noise around me, and that includes any radio show I don't want to listen to. One of the reasons we never got a TV was that I knew I'd go nuts if it were on all the time my husband was home. I used to see him in the dorm or at his parents' home glued to the set anytime he wasn't busy elsewhere. He agreed he had better ways to spend his time, but now he keeps the radio on just low enough so I can't 'understand the words when I'm working in the kitchen. If I don't want to hear it, I ask if he's really listening or if it's just on, and he will normally turn it off. If he really wants to listen, I turn the kitchen radio to the same station. I normally listen because I want to hear something and turn it off when I don't. That means I know about when regular programming is on and when there's a commercial break. I turn it off for commercials, if I can see a clock, and on again at the right time -- unless I forget to turn it back on because I'm thinking about something. But when I want to listen, I want to listen, and if Hubby wants to make unimportant comments during something I want to hear I'll tell him to wait for the commercial. And I hate it when people call me during programming time -- especially if it turns out to be a solicitation. I even schedule the time I do kitchen chores for the time my programs are on.

I don't work well with loud noises. It makes me feel frustrated, annoyed, and especially angry but there are also things that we can't control like the construction of new roads and etc. There's nothing I can do but wait and hope that they will finish it right away! So, for the mean time I will just go to my friends house or something and spend my days there.

Personally for you, it does sound like it was for the Best having everyone show up around the same time and work on everything instead of spreading it out, because around here they would never consider doing it that quick and getting everything done. I am sure by now everything is more back to normal, but everything probably looks better, etc. now as well.

I would be in agony. No, I could not think straight in those circumstances. I would have let them all get going and hope they all get it over with in one session. I would not want any of them to come back.

You are right.. at least it's all happening at once instead of one thing at a time. I don't like loud noises much either. I had to deal with that at work last week.. they were fixing the guardrail along side the drive thru. They were jackhammering and all this other stuff. I could barely speak to my customers it was so loud.

I have never really understood the phrase can;t hear myself think. Just what is it that we expect to be hearing? what images come to mind when we hear ourselves think? Is this something we should underatand or just something to make our minds ponder even further?

I saw that previous discussion of yours. And I even responded to it! Maybe when I was younger, a bit of noise wouldn't bother me. But lately, I've been distracted easily when there's a little noise all around. It affects me much, as I work in a production shop. Hope you're having a better day today.

I totally understand what you mean. It is not easy to work with loud noise like that. I get it. Even though I live here in the city, I stay in my room with my computer and put the A/C on now with the windows closed. So it is quieter then usual. Noise like that goes right through me and I cannot concentrate. And yes I have used that statement before.