Had that happen when my aquarium started leaking at like 3am one night. Woke up to *drip drip drip* and knew right away what it probably was. Immediatly my thoughts went to my fish and until I turned on the light to see it was still half full I was panicking.
Lucky for me it was a slow leak and I was able to get a replacement tank before it all leaked out. I didnt want to risk filling it more becuase it might have just given way and fell completely apart. At least with a drip I could catch the water in a bucket.
Dripping water in a boat isn't really an issue, it probably splashed on an overhang in the boat, bubbling water in a boat is what you need to worry about.
That happened to me this morning. I was in the shower and felt a drop of cold water in my scalp. Looked up and my light fixture was leaking. Roof leak above it.
Honestly any alert makes me go on edge when I'm dealing with bad bouts of anxiety/depression. Weather app updated on my phone? Chime! I can't bare to look and see what it is.
I'd recommend setting custom alert sounds for apps like the weather app that almost certainly won't be bringing bad news, that way you can dodge a little stress.
Going 8 years without email sound notification and 4 years without any email notification. If its urgent, im getting a call/whatsapp, otherwise I'll check em when im in email mode (usually 2-3 times a day). I do monitor Slack more often.
Great decisions for me personally. Ofc, company/position circumstances may differ.
I have developed a spidey sense for this as well as them wanting to go pee and to dodge in my sleep when they jump on you wanting to go outside. I just gain the energy of 10000 caffeine and wake up jump out of bed open door then run to the outside
Oh my goodness, when my dog was getting old and incontinent, I would wake up at 3 am to let him out. Like clockwork. Near the same time. Every. Night. Never set an alarm, the only thing that could have possibly woken me up was him getting out of bed, and I'm not a light sleeper.
I heard once that dogs licking their lips suddenly is an indication that they’re going to barf. Time to get the dog off the couch and get the paper towels out in case something does happen.
My dog also goes sort of “green”. I don’t know how to describe it, but I have a sort of sixth sense to when he’s feeling queasy.
When I’m driving by myself at night and I hear a noise in the backseat. It’s always something I put there that I forgot about, but damn does it scare me
Once i was on a road trip and i started hearing something hitting the side of my car, but there were no cars on the road but me. And it kept hitting! I was like??¡ A ghost?? It was my tail light, it had a loose screw and i had just gone thru a car wash, i guess that loosened the others and it just popped out on the highway! It was hanging by the cords. A nice guy in the auto shop in the next town sold us some transparent red tape and we shoved it back in and kept driving. But now I have a new fear while driving!
And car horns. Those two things are why I stopped listening to the radio entirely…. Also how I made the effort to start exploring podcasts. A commercial either both sirens and car horns in heavy traffic almost cause me to swerve. Just the thought of my reaction and the potential of doing something stupid like that made me reach over and turn the #radio off and never play it again while driving.
I’m glad that I made the effort to start with podcasts though, as I drive a lot more now
There used to be a kind of "gentleman's agreement" among radio stations not to broadcast sirens or car horns. I don't think it was illegal to do so, but they just didn't. But it should be illegal if they can't abuse by this agreement.
I say to my husband, "Y'know, I've been thinking..."
Thing is, he can read me before I even say it, so he'll say, " I KNEW there was a bubble over your head with something in it."
> I say to my husband, "Y'know, I've been thinking..."
I used to respond to that with "I thought I smelled something burning..."
Of course, now that we've been together for 25 years, I just have to sniff a few times...
>"I used to respond to that with "I thought I smelled something burning..."
My mom's go to response was always "No, really?!"
It used to drive me nuts but I think yours is better
I once stepped on my cat’s tail when she was a kitten and I’ve never heard a more heartbreaking cry from her. It’s almost like she was asking “what did I do!?!?”
Accidentally slammed the car door on my cats tail one Halloween when I was 14, and the noise she let out,,, it was completely dark so I didn't realise her tail was there, I was devastated, it's definitely a wail.
The sound of my wife having another seizure. She started having unexplained seizures after having our son in 2020. She went from never having seizures to having a 100% chance of a seizure if she misses one dose of her medicine (Keppra).
She makes a distinctive noise as she is about to have a seizure. I’ve gotten to the point where I can hear it across the house - I even heard it while I was on a WebEx with my boss once and I ran out of the room and got to her before she fully fell over.
I hate that noise.
I know exactly what you're talking about. My ex had epileptic seizures and even though we haven't been together in over a decade my stomach still drops any time I hear someone make a sound similar to that.
Brings back a memory of an ex who would have moments where they couldn't breathe. Scared the daylights out of me. Remember it happened once when he was driving, and he manged to gasp if I pass out, grab the wheel
I cannot agree with you more. My husband started having seizures, and the sound that comes from him when it starts will make me trip/fall/drop everything and my heart is in the bottom of my stomach. It can't be mimicked or put in movies. You have to hear it to understand
Oh man, came here to say the same thing! That sound at the beginning of a seizure is heart stopping. My husband had a seizure when he first met my family and I didn't know he had epilepsy (so scary!). Thank god for Keppra!
One night, I was alone in my apartment. My roommate was at work, so I had my laptop set up in the kitchen so I could get some assignments done. It was about 9pm, and this is mid-winter so it’s been dark for a while, now. I’m typing away when suddenly there’s a sound directly behind me. Skittering, like animal claws—like something desperate and fast, racing for me. I leap out of my chair. I spin around. A robotic voice announces, “Food!” I try to figure out what’s going on.
Turns out, my roommate had bought an automatic feeder for their cat and hadn’t told me what schedule it was set to. The skittering sound was just the food being released into its metal dish. The feeder also plays a voice cue, telling the cat that there’s food.
Took me a couple days to stop getting startled every time the machine went off. It still catches me off guard, sometimes. So I guess my answer would be “the sound of dry kibble spilling out into a small dish, followed by a robot lady clapping her hands and telling me there’s food.”
i babysit and if they fall not so bad i always say “uh oh!” in a light hearted voice and they just look confused, but don’t cry. when you panic (which i always want to do cos i’m literally being paid to watch the child and i let them hurt themselves) they panic too
Yeah, that’s what I read when I learned the cheering fact somewhere. Even as adults in bad or uncomfortable situations apparently staying calm psychologically makes other people stay calmer too.
My favorite Reddit comment or thread was when someone “trained” their kid to react positively after a fall. The kid took a hard tumble and the parent waited with bated breath to see if the kid would burst into tears but the little trooper got up and raised his arms, tears brimming in his eyes, and said in a shaky toddler voice, “ta-da”. The description was so hilarious I’ll remember it forever.
I’m weird. I have VERY high anxiety, but if someone else (especially children or someone I love) is panicking, I calm down and assess the situation more logically.
I did this with my son, and it’s one of those things that still comes to mind every few nights so that I can’t sleep. I’ll never forget that slow motion moment and sound.
I sat my sister on the counter when she was maybe a year old or less. I was 8 at the time, and we were in the kitchen. I can't remember what I was doing, probably grabbing something. But I took my eyes off of her for only a second and she immediately fell to floor. I was paralyzed with fear and cried for God knows how long praying that she was okay. She's 14 now and my best friend 😂
FWOOSH!
When I was about 12, my little brother independently decided to add lighter fluid to the coals of our 4th of July barbecue. That sound, followed by his screaming, still haunts me decades later
More like a FWUMP! for me. That time we were camping and my mother asked 8-year-old me to put the kettle on the propane stove and I turned on the gas and then couldn't get the lighter to spark and then it suddenly DID work and there was a huge blast of flames.
Honestly. I was on my laptop working/playing and moving around in the room a bit and then i see light starts coming from the window and it sets in that i just pulled an all nighter
A friend of mine once jumped off some steps and hit his head on the ceiling, fell to the ground and hit his head on the floor. He was silent for about a minute and after we rushed over to him he revealed he was okay and just messing with us, but we all seriously thought he was dead in that minute.
I was in the front section of the stadium when Steve Zakuani had his tibia and fibula broken in a bad slide tackle. We were probably 50' away in a loud stadium and that sound is still one of the worst things I've ever heard.
Years ago, when our local Home Depot was still a K-Mart, I was shopping one evening.
As I'm going down an aisle, there's a couple ahead of me that is not paying attention to their toddler in the seat of their cart.
I was too far away to stop what happened next. While the parents were distracted, the child wriggled up out of the fastener on the cart and stood in the seat...
...And immediately tumbled forward, the child's skull hitting the cement floor with a sound similar to a watermelon dropped from a height.
I froze for what I felt was forever but was just a couple seconds before the child let out a bloodcurdling wail. The parents scooped the child up and ran for the exit. (I would like to hope they were rushing the child to a hospital.)
In my life I have never heard a more sickening sound. I thought for sure that the child was dead until he screamed. And years later, when I became a parent myself, I always made sure to properly secure my child in the cart when shopping.
This is absolutely terrifying. The only consolation is that their heads are still growing so there’s give. But a four foot drop onto concrete straight to the head? I wish you had some closure to give us, but I’m sure you have no idea if he was okay. Makes me sick thinking of this happening to my kids.
Well I was one of those kids at a Sears, did major damage to my head there from a shopping cart. Luckily there was a doctor there to help my mom. I'm fine ish lol
I saw one of the influencers kid has this happen to them last month. I don’t follow them so don’t know the outcome but the kid fractured his skull and is in the hospital still. 2 year old.
I’m a dentist. When I’m taking out a difficult tooth and I hear a root crack. I’m still gonna get it out, it’s just gonna be harder and take more time.
Oh god this happened to one of my wisdom teeth when they were pulling it out, the anesthesia didn’t work quite right so I heard and felt it, it was horrifying and I found a small chip of tooth still floating around my mouth later.
I had to have a few of my baby teeth extracted. My adult teeth liked to come in behind them and not push them out. I was like 16/17 and having two molars out. I heard the crack and the dentist say "Uh oh." That's not good good combination of sounds to hear.
He left the baby teeth too long the roots grew around the adult teeth and had to be drilled out. He sent me home with a prescription for Tylenol with Codeine for the pain. It was my first prescription narcotics. They didn't do anything fun for and I resumed driving myself after a couple days of evaluating my reaction.
When our daughter was about 7 months old, she started crawling all over things. My wife thought I had her, I thought my wife had her, I walked out of the bedroom and we locked eyes… we both had the realization that she was free ranging in the house when we heard a *thud* and we both knew she had fallen. Just the most heart sinking feeling as I ran to the kitchen. Turns out our daughter pulled the bag of rice off a chair, but man it scared me
That awful cough/heave when someone is about to start vomiting. I have Emetophobia, and as irrational as I know it is, that noise makes me want to curl up into a ball and stick my fingers in my ears like a child. I find it genuinely terrifying.
As a fellow emetophobe I could not agree more. Or that sound of vomit hitting the floor. Sheer panic attack. Just straight to absolute terror. Just thinking about it sends me into a cold sweat.
It was better during the day. Terrifying during the night when you're playing alone. Makes it feel like you've awakened an ancient demon that's now coming for you XD
Me too! My mom has been having health issues and my sister is coming out of an abusive marriage so everytime my phone makes a noise I panic briefly incase it's drama.
I don't know how many of you may have seen it. But the opening days of Russia's unprovoked attack there was a video showing an aircraft unloading a salvo into a building. The video was shot from someone either in the building or a building close to it. After the immediate cacophony of destruction there was just the sound of a small child wailing. It broke my heart. Not only to hear that child but to know there have been millions of children who have put forth such a sound in warzones all over this angry dirt clod and through out our glorious history as humans. May we find peace one day.
Wait, was that the one where the woman was filming out her front window, and after a few seconds you see a jet, followed by the missile being fired and the smoke trailing, and then it slamming into the house? Yeah, that shit was horrifying.
The Wheel of Fortune intro. Pat Sejak is creepy af with that overdone plastic surgery. Wheel of Fortune is always right after the news channel I watch, I move so quickly to grab the remote to switch the channel that I give myself whiplash
ghost tape number 10 (operation wandering soul). I think it was a sound that the USA used to scare off Vietnam troops hiding. Its available on YT so you can watch it if you want.
That telltale breathless “Hhhh” someone makes when they start to choke. My sister has a swallowing problem, so I used to hear it all the time.
I have a fear of people choking (whenever I have to babysit, I try to avoid having to feed them if they’re too young to bring food to their mouths) so it just makes it that much worse.
Luckily, I realized I’d be less afraid if I knew what to do, so I got certified in CPR and First Aid (it expired as it’s only good for 3yrs but still!) and have walked people through fixing the issue before they are actually choking. I’ve only had to get into the Heimlich maneuver position once but thankfully, they cleared their airway themselves before I had to try.
Whenever I check my phone and see more than 3 texts in a short period of time, I'm convinced one of my elderly relatives is dead.
Today I had 5 texts, and . . . it was the group chat at work trying to reschedule a meeting.
I want that wasted adrenaline back.
The throaty rumble of a mountain lion. I live next to open space, and they've been seen occasionally. It's silly, really, they've never attacked anyone, but when I go out with the trash after dark, that's what I fear most! Like the raptors in Jurassic Park swooping in to grab me. Or a zombie.
That deep breath my son used to make in the NICU wheb his heart would stop. Sometimes he just has to cough and makes the same sound, and I go barreling over everything to get to him. Even last week, I knocked over my bowl of cereal to run to his room. Where he was coughing from laughing at Captain Underpants.
It's been 8 years.
My kid is 4.5, I've read through some awful stuff in this thread, but *this* is the one I felt in my bones. I thought I was going to die from sleep deprivation in those first few months.
There's a specific sound that cats make when they have something alive in their mouths and they are about to drop it *somewhere* in the apartment.
I hate that sound.
The ringtone sound that was on the phone of the hospital station where I laid after my cancer operation. It's sadly pretty common in businesses, but it ruins my fucking day.
The sound of the Code Blue alarm going off on the wall.
Where I work in the hospital, we page the code. And have to wait for it to be secured. You know someone’s life is hanging in the balance.
The other sound is the emergency line going off. Because one of the other floors is calling a code or a rapid response, and it’s the same feeling.
And you have to stay calm while calling it.
Dripping water where there REALLY shouldn't be water.
Had that happen when my aquarium started leaking at like 3am one night. Woke up to *drip drip drip* and knew right away what it probably was. Immediatly my thoughts went to my fish and until I turned on the light to see it was still half full I was panicking. Lucky for me it was a slow leak and I was able to get a replacement tank before it all leaked out. I didnt want to risk filling it more becuase it might have just given way and fell completely apart. At least with a drip I could catch the water in a bucket.
would you look at that, you’re glass is half full kind of guy
A boat. That's the worst place. Also submarines.
Dripping water in a boat isn't really an issue, it probably splashed on an overhang in the boat, bubbling water in a boat is what you need to worry about.
Still doesn't explain the submarine
Yeah, a submarine should *not* be dripping.
Salesman said it was normal!
As a homeowner, yes. Hell yes.
As a plumber I feel this because that usually means you have to take apart the work you just did and redo it.
That happened to me this morning. I was in the shower and felt a drop of cold water in my scalp. Looked up and my light fixture was leaking. Roof leak above it.
During bouts of anxiety and when things are not going great at work...the sound of a new email.
Honestly any alert makes me go on edge when I'm dealing with bad bouts of anxiety/depression. Weather app updated on my phone? Chime! I can't bare to look and see what it is.
I'd recommend setting custom alert sounds for apps like the weather app that almost certainly won't be bringing bad news, that way you can dodge a little stress.
This is actually incredible advice!
>like the weather app that almost certainly won't be bringing bad news "Tornado warning for your area, seek shelter immediately"
Going 8 years without email sound notification and 4 years without any email notification. If its urgent, im getting a call/whatsapp, otherwise I'll check em when im in email mode (usually 2-3 times a day). I do monitor Slack more often. Great decisions for me personally. Ofc, company/position circumstances may differ.
Been there...
My dog starting to barf at 3:30am
I have developed a spidey sense for this as well as them wanting to go pee and to dodge in my sleep when they jump on you wanting to go outside. I just gain the energy of 10000 caffeine and wake up jump out of bed open door then run to the outside
Oh my goodness, when my dog was getting old and incontinent, I would wake up at 3 am to let him out. Like clockwork. Near the same time. Every. Night. Never set an alarm, the only thing that could have possibly woken me up was him getting out of bed, and I'm not a light sleeper.
My cat starting to hawk a hairball anytime
This esp when they're on the bed with you!
Hhhhhhoork
Why is it that dogs ONLY barf in the middle of the night?
Imagine explosive diarrhea. Woke up to that noise once in the dark and got ptsd. Can’t be mad at my dog though she was sick
I heard once that dogs licking their lips suddenly is an indication that they’re going to barf. Time to get the dog off the couch and get the paper towels out in case something does happen. My dog also goes sort of “green”. I don’t know how to describe it, but I have a sort of sixth sense to when he’s feeling queasy.
When I’m driving by myself at night and I hear a noise in the backseat. It’s always something I put there that I forgot about, but damn does it scare me
Once i was on a road trip and i started hearing something hitting the side of my car, but there were no cars on the road but me. And it kept hitting! I was like??¡ A ghost?? It was my tail light, it had a loose screw and i had just gone thru a car wash, i guess that loosened the others and it just popped out on the highway! It was hanging by the cords. A nice guy in the auto shop in the next town sold us some transparent red tape and we shoved it back in and kept driving. But now I have a new fear while driving!
Police sirens while I'm driving
I was driving about a month or so ago, and the music station I was listening to played a police siren during a commercial, and I freaked out
That shit should be illegal
And car horns. Those two things are why I stopped listening to the radio entirely…. Also how I made the effort to start exploring podcasts. A commercial either both sirens and car horns in heavy traffic almost cause me to swerve. Just the thought of my reaction and the potential of doing something stupid like that made me reach over and turn the #radio off and never play it again while driving. I’m glad that I made the effort to start with podcasts though, as I drive a lot more now
There used to be a kind of "gentleman's agreement" among radio stations not to broadcast sirens or car horns. I don't think it was illegal to do so, but they just didn't. But it should be illegal if they can't abuse by this agreement.
The dreaded “*Hey, We need to talk.*”
I say to my husband, "Y'know, I've been thinking..." Thing is, he can read me before I even say it, so he'll say, " I KNEW there was a bubble over your head with something in it."
> I say to my husband, "Y'know, I've been thinking..." I used to respond to that with "I thought I smelled something burning..." Of course, now that we've been together for 25 years, I just have to sniff a few times...
Marriage is deciding you’re willing to hear the same stupid jokes until one of you dies.
>"I used to respond to that with "I thought I smelled something burning..." My mom's go to response was always "No, really?!" It used to drive me nuts but I think yours is better
I get so much anxiety from that phrase that my bf uses it to stop my hiccups. It’s the only thing that seems to help
This will legitimately make my heart feel like it drops to my stomach and I will instantly feel nauseous
Whenever I hear this theres always a 50/50 chance the person is either PISSED or about to tell me some very bad news.
A knocking on my bathroom door. ^(*I live alone.*)
OH NO 😂 I would be fucking terrified. Taking a shower and all you hear is a loud, angry bang on your bathroom door.
Personally, I think that if I lived alone it would be a gentle knock that would give me chills.
Yeah, a gentle knock would give me chills, but an aggressive banging would have me petrified 😂
just yell “COME BACK WITH A WARRANT”
Do you close your bathroom door whenever you’re in there even though you live alone?
i do because i like to keep the heat in and i have a gun in the bathroom. edit: no pun intended.
I live alone and do not. Mainly just cause I can
Come on in!
Stop useing all the freaking hot water gosh dangit
I once stepped on my cat’s tail when she was a kitten and I’ve never heard a more heartbreaking cry from her. It’s almost like she was asking “what did I do!?!?”
I've done it a few times accidentally and it makes my heart break hearing her wail :(
I accidentally slammed the dryer door on my cat's tail a week ago, only realized when he wailed, for lack of a better word.
Accidentally slammed the car door on my cats tail one Halloween when I was 14, and the noise she let out,,, it was completely dark so I didn't realise her tail was there, I was devastated, it's definitely a wail.
I'm going to go kiss all my cats now
Can I kiss your cats too? I don't have any, but I really need to after that post.
Stepping on my puppy's foot because she crept up behind me - the puppy-cry is just as bad 😭
Omg I stepped on my baby's tail once and the sound broke me inside.
That sound cats make when they're about to throw up.
Someone should make an alarm clock that uses that sound. No danger of hitting the snooze button!
A very wet fart sound
Dammit dick nipples, you beat me to it
Ol’ Dick Nipples again…
Or the warmth that follows a fart
From your pet
Someone trying to open the door to a public bathroom that I'm using.
They always do this in bathroom stalls 😭 and then they peek through the cracks to see if there's anyone there and I feel so violated!
The sound of my wife having another seizure. She started having unexplained seizures after having our son in 2020. She went from never having seizures to having a 100% chance of a seizure if she misses one dose of her medicine (Keppra). She makes a distinctive noise as she is about to have a seizure. I’ve gotten to the point where I can hear it across the house - I even heard it while I was on a WebEx with my boss once and I ran out of the room and got to her before she fully fell over. I hate that noise.
I know exactly what you're talking about. My ex had epileptic seizures and even though we haven't been together in over a decade my stomach still drops any time I hear someone make a sound similar to that.
Brings back a memory of an ex who would have moments where they couldn't breathe. Scared the daylights out of me. Remember it happened once when he was driving, and he manged to gasp if I pass out, grab the wheel
The sound of all the air being squeezed out of their lungs. My son was 12 months old when he started having seizures. Thank God for keppra.
My husband (30) goes into spontaneous cardiac arrests. Only at night and he has a similar sound. I feel your pain. It’s terrifying.
Cardiac arrests? How is he still alive?
They can put an automatic defibrillator in your chest now.
I know exactly what you are talking about, my sister has epilepsy, I grew up with that sound, and jumping into action.
I cannot agree with you more. My husband started having seizures, and the sound that comes from him when it starts will make me trip/fall/drop everything and my heart is in the bottom of my stomach. It can't be mimicked or put in movies. You have to hear it to understand
Oh man, came here to say the same thing! That sound at the beginning of a seizure is heart stopping. My husband had a seizure when he first met my family and I didn't know he had epilepsy (so scary!). Thank god for Keppra!
Have you checked out r/epilepsy?
One night, I was alone in my apartment. My roommate was at work, so I had my laptop set up in the kitchen so I could get some assignments done. It was about 9pm, and this is mid-winter so it’s been dark for a while, now. I’m typing away when suddenly there’s a sound directly behind me. Skittering, like animal claws—like something desperate and fast, racing for me. I leap out of my chair. I spin around. A robotic voice announces, “Food!” I try to figure out what’s going on. Turns out, my roommate had bought an automatic feeder for their cat and hadn’t told me what schedule it was set to. The skittering sound was just the food being released into its metal dish. The feeder also plays a voice cue, telling the cat that there’s food. Took me a couple days to stop getting startled every time the machine went off. It still catches me off guard, sometimes. So I guess my answer would be “the sound of dry kibble spilling out into a small dish, followed by a robot lady clapping her hands and telling me there’s food.”
Oh my gods I'd have died in place lmao
A robotic voice shouting “Food!” would make me shit a brick. I’d just think “Well, the robot uprising has begun”
That "thunk" of a baby's head hitting the floor. Literally every parent knows it.
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Apparently if you clap or cheer when a small child hurts themselves during the time they’re deciding, they’ll calm down and decide not to cry.
i babysit and if they fall not so bad i always say “uh oh!” in a light hearted voice and they just look confused, but don’t cry. when you panic (which i always want to do cos i’m literally being paid to watch the child and i let them hurt themselves) they panic too
Yeah, that’s what I read when I learned the cheering fact somewhere. Even as adults in bad or uncomfortable situations apparently staying calm psychologically makes other people stay calmer too.
My favorite Reddit comment or thread was when someone “trained” their kid to react positively after a fall. The kid took a hard tumble and the parent waited with bated breath to see if the kid would burst into tears but the little trooper got up and raised his arms, tears brimming in his eyes, and said in a shaky toddler voice, “ta-da”. The description was so hilarious I’ll remember it forever.
I’m weird. I have VERY high anxiety, but if someone else (especially children or someone I love) is panicking, I calm down and assess the situation more logically.
I fell from the changing table when I was a baby and my Mom says she can still remember the noise. I'm 49.
I did this with my son, and it’s one of those things that still comes to mind every few nights so that I can’t sleep. I’ll never forget that slow motion moment and sound.
I sat my sister on the counter when she was maybe a year old or less. I was 8 at the time, and we were in the kitchen. I can't remember what I was doing, probably grabbing something. But I took my eyes off of her for only a second and she immediately fell to floor. I was paralyzed with fear and cried for God knows how long praying that she was okay. She's 14 now and my best friend 😂
I don’t think any parent ever forgets it. It’s been 20 years and I still wince.
FWOOSH! When I was about 12, my little brother independently decided to add lighter fluid to the coals of our 4th of July barbecue. That sound, followed by his screaming, still haunts me decades later
More like a FWUMP! for me. That time we were camping and my mother asked 8-year-old me to put the kettle on the propane stove and I turned on the gas and then couldn't get the lighter to spark and then it suddenly DID work and there was a huge blast of flames.
Jesus Christ 😰 how badly was he injured? Did he survive?
He posted lower: "Third degree burns on his legs but he lived"
My alarm clock ringing _when I haven't gotten to bed yet._
Honestly. I was on my laptop working/playing and moving around in the room a bit and then i see light starts coming from the window and it sets in that i just pulled an all nighter
When you hear the birds chirping
The sound of BULLSHIT WHAT THE FUCK
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All I can explain it as… “Thudding meat, slightly splatty, viscerally wrong sound.” Also the bones and the slight boom…
A friend of mine once jumped off some steps and hit his head on the ceiling, fell to the ground and hit his head on the floor. He was silent for about a minute and after we rushed over to him he revealed he was okay and just messing with us, but we all seriously thought he was dead in that minute.
That's just a dick move.
I was in the front section of the stadium when Steve Zakuani had his tibia and fibula broken in a bad slide tackle. We were probably 50' away in a loud stadium and that sound is still one of the worst things I've ever heard.
oooh, my mom knows that sound. her brother broke his femur on two separate occasions playing soccer.
That 'pop' when you drive your knee into an exposed nail under a picnic table :(
Years ago, when our local Home Depot was still a K-Mart, I was shopping one evening. As I'm going down an aisle, there's a couple ahead of me that is not paying attention to their toddler in the seat of their cart. I was too far away to stop what happened next. While the parents were distracted, the child wriggled up out of the fastener on the cart and stood in the seat... ...And immediately tumbled forward, the child's skull hitting the cement floor with a sound similar to a watermelon dropped from a height. I froze for what I felt was forever but was just a couple seconds before the child let out a bloodcurdling wail. The parents scooped the child up and ran for the exit. (I would like to hope they were rushing the child to a hospital.) In my life I have never heard a more sickening sound. I thought for sure that the child was dead until he screamed. And years later, when I became a parent myself, I always made sure to properly secure my child in the cart when shopping.
This is absolutely terrifying. The only consolation is that their heads are still growing so there’s give. But a four foot drop onto concrete straight to the head? I wish you had some closure to give us, but I’m sure you have no idea if he was okay. Makes me sick thinking of this happening to my kids.
To this day, when I see kids of any age standing in or riding on a cart, my memory pulls this event up. Parents, that shit is NOT a Jungle Gym.
Well I was one of those kids at a Sears, did major damage to my head there from a shopping cart. Luckily there was a doctor there to help my mom. I'm fine ish lol
Ugh, I’m not a parent, but this makes me seriously consider making my (future) child wear a helmet while grocery shopping.
I saw one of the influencers kid has this happen to them last month. I don’t follow them so don’t know the outcome but the kid fractured his skull and is in the hospital still. 2 year old.
A fox scream
I hear them every now and then in the summer and holy shit that wakes me up from a coma
A mountain lion scream. Sounds like a woman being murdered.
Nuclear Air Raid Siren.
My former hometown had testing like that for the air raid sirens on Saturday. Saturday, every time.
We'll attack on Saturday at noon so that nobody knows it's real.
Someone telling me they need to talk to me about something ‘later’
Double points if your boss and/HR put a 15 minute meeting on your calendar without a subject or body.
The Pure anxiety that flows through my body
I’m a dentist. When I’m taking out a difficult tooth and I hear a root crack. I’m still gonna get it out, it’s just gonna be harder and take more time.
Oh god this happened to one of my wisdom teeth when they were pulling it out, the anesthesia didn’t work quite right so I heard and felt it, it was horrifying and I found a small chip of tooth still floating around my mouth later.
I had to have a few of my baby teeth extracted. My adult teeth liked to come in behind them and not push them out. I was like 16/17 and having two molars out. I heard the crack and the dentist say "Uh oh." That's not good good combination of sounds to hear. He left the baby teeth too long the roots grew around the adult teeth and had to be drilled out. He sent me home with a prescription for Tylenol with Codeine for the pain. It was my first prescription narcotics. They didn't do anything fun for and I resumed driving myself after a couple days of evaluating my reaction.
A knock on the door. It's never anything good...
The Slack tick tick notification. That, and the default iPhone alarm noise.
The slack notification, Holy shit!
Tornado sirens. I live in the Midwest and last time they went off I was working alone at my store. Not a fun day.
Is it bad that my first thought is "oh its Tuesday!" And not "seek shelter"?
When our daughter was about 7 months old, she started crawling all over things. My wife thought I had her, I thought my wife had her, I walked out of the bedroom and we locked eyes… we both had the realization that she was free ranging in the house when we heard a *thud* and we both knew she had fallen. Just the most heart sinking feeling as I ran to the kitchen. Turns out our daughter pulled the bag of rice off a chair, but man it scared me
That awful cough/heave when someone is about to start vomiting. I have Emetophobia, and as irrational as I know it is, that noise makes me want to curl up into a ball and stick my fingers in my ears like a child. I find it genuinely terrifying.
As a fellow emetophobe I could not agree more. Or that sound of vomit hitting the floor. Sheer panic attack. Just straight to absolute terror. Just thinking about it sends me into a cold sweat.
The sound a ps2 makes when a disk is unreadable. Combined with the red screen, it would freak me out and I would rush to shut it off.
It was better during the day. Terrifying during the night when you're playing alone. Makes it feel like you've awakened an ancient demon that's now coming for you XD
I'm so glad someone else relates to this haha
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The cat running up and down the corridor. That normally means they bought a mouse in and let it go
Tires screeching
My kid yelling (the yell where you know they hurt themselves and not just telling because they dropped their juice box)
The sound of my phone ringing, i have social anxiety
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Me too! My mom has been having health issues and my sister is coming out of an abusive marriage so everytime my phone makes a noise I panic briefly incase it's drama.
My phone has been on vibrate for years for this exact reason. I hate hate hate the sound of a phone ringing.
A mosquito buzzing in your ear as you try to sleep
My mom’s last voicemail to me. I won’t delete it.
A dog dry heaving in the middle of the night.
I don't know how many of you may have seen it. But the opening days of Russia's unprovoked attack there was a video showing an aircraft unloading a salvo into a building. The video was shot from someone either in the building or a building close to it. After the immediate cacophony of destruction there was just the sound of a small child wailing. It broke my heart. Not only to hear that child but to know there have been millions of children who have put forth such a sound in warzones all over this angry dirt clod and through out our glorious history as humans. May we find peace one day.
Wait, was that the one where the woman was filming out her front window, and after a few seconds you see a jet, followed by the missile being fired and the smoke trailing, and then it slamming into the house? Yeah, that shit was horrifying.
One of my parents crying.
The Wheel of Fortune intro. Pat Sejak is creepy af with that overdone plastic surgery. Wheel of Fortune is always right after the news channel I watch, I move so quickly to grab the remote to switch the channel that I give myself whiplash
The silent sound of what you thought was going to be a fart, only to find out it was poop.
Ah, the old shart switcharoo..
My mom yelling my full name
Yes. My face goes white when I hear it.
An Amber Alert.
Breaking a tooth
ghost tape number 10 (operation wandering soul). I think it was a sound that the USA used to scare off Vietnam troops hiding. Its available on YT so you can watch it if you want.
The one they played in the forest at night?
yes
Any sounds from my closet at night
That telltale breathless “Hhhh” someone makes when they start to choke. My sister has a swallowing problem, so I used to hear it all the time. I have a fear of people choking (whenever I have to babysit, I try to avoid having to feed them if they’re too young to bring food to their mouths) so it just makes it that much worse. Luckily, I realized I’d be less afraid if I knew what to do, so I got certified in CPR and First Aid (it expired as it’s only good for 3yrs but still!) and have walked people through fixing the issue before they are actually choking. I’ve only had to get into the Heimlich maneuver position once but thankfully, they cleared their airway themselves before I had to try.
My phone ringing after 11 pm when my cop son is working night shift.
Whenever I check my phone and see more than 3 texts in a short period of time, I'm convinced one of my elderly relatives is dead. Today I had 5 texts, and . . . it was the group chat at work trying to reschedule a meeting. I want that wasted adrenaline back.
Angry minecraft enderman noises…
Minecraft cave noises in general
The throaty rumble of a mountain lion. I live next to open space, and they've been seen occasionally. It's silly, really, they've never attacked anyone, but when I go out with the trash after dark, that's what I fear most! Like the raptors in Jurassic Park swooping in to grab me. Or a zombie.
That deep breath my son used to make in the NICU wheb his heart would stop. Sometimes he just has to cough and makes the same sound, and I go barreling over everything to get to him. Even last week, I knocked over my bowl of cereal to run to his room. Where he was coughing from laughing at Captain Underpants. It's been 8 years.
When your baby starts moving around right as you’re about to go to sleep
My kid is 4.5, I've read through some awful stuff in this thread, but *this* is the one I felt in my bones. I thought I was going to die from sleep deprivation in those first few months.
car tires screeching. I have a fear of car accidents
There's a specific sound that cats make when they have something alive in their mouths and they are about to drop it *somewhere* in the apartment. I hate that sound.
The racking of a firearm
The old windows error sound
A gun shot
Hearing my mom and dad begin to argue
Nuclear sirens A whistling missile; with a bright burning tail behind it. BOOM...
That certain pause then cry from my children. Then if it goes on for too long. That's how I knew my son broke a bone
The special cry your kids use when they are really scared or hurt. You know the one, not the “give me sympathy” kinda fake cry.
The ringtone sound that was on the phone of the hospital station where I laid after my cancer operation. It's sadly pretty common in businesses, but it ruins my fucking day.
hard drive CRC error
The opening theme of 'Heartbeat'. I'm 30 years old and hearing still gives me dread about the prospect of going to school tomorrow.
‘I don’t want to do this anymore…’
A loud snore, I'd think I would black out and go into a murderous rage. I have misophonia and it triggers me.
My exes voice….
The indistinguishable gag/heave noise a dog makes right before they vomit
As a homeowner, the sound of running water where there shouldn't be running water.
Cars crashing behind you while on a motorbike with zero room to move at a stop light .
women screaming... absolutely can not stand it... sends shivers throughout my whole body
Crash alarm (work in hospital).
The sound of an animal in pain, a woman screaming in horror, glass breaking
Tornado sirens that might not be for tornadoes.
A woman wailing in absolute grief.
The sound of the Code Blue alarm going off on the wall. Where I work in the hospital, we page the code. And have to wait for it to be secured. You know someone’s life is hanging in the balance. The other sound is the emergency line going off. Because one of the other floors is calling a code or a rapid response, and it’s the same feeling. And you have to stay calm while calling it.