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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat is your favorite sound/sounds? Mine is the ocean waves coming into the beach. How about you?


Sadly, I live in the middle of this country. The beach is my happy place, but I dont get to be there often enough.
debm55
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MadLinguist
(877 posts)My favorite is the sound when a summer deluge hits a metal roof like the one on my parents' deck.
Add in the chorus of rain hitting the bayou the deck overhangs, and it's veritable symphony.
Simultaneously soothing and invigorating
debm55
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LoisB
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Walleye
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(46,482 posts)snow. and especially the sounds of the ocean.
Buckeye_Democrat
(15,299 posts)... for these freight train sounds -- tornados!
I think the tornados sound more like a giant blowing into an empty jug.
Starting about the 14-second mark in this video:
https://www.reddit.com/r/tornado/comments/10etm7y/freight_train_sound/
Intermittent in this brief video:
https://www.tiktok.com/@drewtaylor_official/video/7041048329022688518
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hlthe2b
(110,352 posts)That is wonderful walking time (pre-dawn or post-dusk) and weather. Peaceful doesn't begin to describe...
debm55
(46,482 posts)at Christmas. I was stunned by the absolute beauty of the sounds of the beach while it snowed.
Raven123
(6,782 posts)Love them especially in the early morning and later evening.
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MIButterfly
(649 posts)Music to my ears!
FirstLight
(15,337 posts)My little girl is a total lover and purrs constantly ☺️
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TommieMommy
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pnwest
(3,395 posts)evenings, the golden hour, tearing around the neighborhood on my bike.
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FirstLight
(15,337 posts)The first that comes to mind is the wind through the pine trees. You can actually hear it almost like waves coming over the other ridges of the mountains as it builds towards you and then goes past you and goes through the trees it's a really amazing sound.
Second on the list would be thunderstorm and rain in the mountains that building sound as it comes towards you. And the rain is just glorious especially in july!
Last but not least is a sound that is not a sound. Falling snow. That beautiful hush that comes with a winter snowstorm..
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womanofthehills
(9,891 posts)But the best is - train whistles in the night - 4 miles away - I have no car traffic so that and coyotes are my main night sounds.
Some nights I just hear whistle after whistle as there are 3 roads the trains have to blow their whistles at. I sleep with my deck doors open (screens ) - no air conditioning so I can hear the night really well. Also, if my rooster hears a noise in the night, he will crow and then his crowing makes my distant neighbors roosters crow.
My dogs like to sleep on upstairs deck outside my bedroom. When the coyotes come, my dogs and the coyotes try to out howl each other. It gets really loud but I love it.
Lightning is also really exciting when you live at high altitudes.
So rain, train whistles, lightning, Roos crowing and coyotes howling- these are a few of my favorite things plus my super affectionate dogs and my long time boyfriend who occasionally visits.
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surrealAmerican
(11,642 posts)... when the sound of cicadas turns into the sound of crickets.
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Niagara
(10,774 posts)The crackling of a campfire
A deck of cards being shuffled
When a hockey puck connects with a hockey stick or vice versa
The sound of coffee brewing
The sound of coffee being poured
When my neck, back and all sorts of bodily joints produce cavitations (cracking)
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Grim Chieftain
(247 posts)It gives me joy - and hope.
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Dorothy V
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JoseBalow
(7,713 posts)Her sleep sounds are so cute and comforting to me.
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DeeDeeNY
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Pinback
(13,279 posts)preferably on my lap!
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PikaBlue
(337 posts)Water sounds (ocean waves, streams, and rain) activate mg bladder.
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madamesilverspurs
(16,286 posts)a burbling mountain stream, raindrops falling on the tent; also, the sound of waves lapping on the boat's hull as they gently rock me to sleep.
Above all, the laughter of children, the sweetest hymn the universe will ever know.
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debm55
(46,482 posts)touches the heart.
Jeebo
(2,455 posts)Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony, 80 minutes of heavenly bliss to me.
Ron
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AllaN01Bear
(25,798 posts)also love a mild thunderstorm ( but no tornaods please)
debm55
(46,482 posts)Thunderstorm===not the ones in my neighborhood , but the ones in the distance.
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Submariner
(13,016 posts)I play ocean sounds (crashing waves) all night long. I subscribe to Amazon sleep sounds and go to sleep and wake up to ocean sounds or babbling brook sounds through Alexa. Only $10/yr.
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Earl_from_PA
(272 posts)On vinyl records.
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Ocelot II
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purple_haze
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FalloutShelter
(13,480 posts)Last train of the night usually around midnight when I'm turning in.
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electric_blue68
(21,921 posts). An interesting geofeature of the northern tip of Manhattan is the north running Harlem River of Manhattan bends, and goes westward into the Hudson River.
It passes by two baylets. The Atlantic Ocean actually covers the Hudson River ftom the Hudson Bay northland. So this water way area going east to west has a tide. When the water gets halfway down, or up these mud flats appear in the baylets. Then when a speed boat, or the big Circle Line cruse ship comes around (it circles Manhattan) by it sends small waves that hit the mud flat, and they make small ocean wave sounds! It's so sweet, and soothing. I don't feel like I'm missing making my one trip way down into Brooklyn to hear the ocean, and see special fireworks.
And someone posted the 'sounds of my family, and friends voices'. Sure I'm fine w texting, but it's so nice to hear their voices.
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Mad_Dem_X
(9,952 posts)Also, waves crashing on the beach.
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Emile
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Prairie_Seagull
(4,257 posts)may want to check out 'virtual' (no headset needed) walking tours of places around the world to include walking in the rain. The sound of rain hitting the ambient environment as well as an umbrella is very relaxing. Scenery does not suck either. This is my answer to your question- Rain maybe on umbrella.
I did spend some formative years in Portland Or.
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Prairie_Seagull
(4,257 posts)scenery and sound. I haven't seen one on-line yet but have experienced it many times. If those sounds won't put one to sleep...
Surf sounds were a very close second.
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subterranean
(3,641 posts)I just find that sound very relaxing for some reason.
I also love the sound of bamboo leaves rustling in the breeze, especially in summer.
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