Have you ever heard things you shouldn't be hearing?

[TBman]

My dog (a mini schnauzer) came running up to me this afternoon from the family room. I could have sworn I heard a second dog running after her.

I let my dog out outside just now and I sat here to read, then I heard a dog running... in our family room.

So either my first mini is haunting us or I'm starting to go,

[Mr. Jelly]

Yea. That usually happens to me after the second bowl.

[ahorsewithnonam]

Son of Sam had the same issue. I wouldn’t worry about it.

[Ozzy the dog]

Who said that?

[Silly Moustache]

We have always had a cat in the house, and the last four were Burmese, but our last beloved male - a rescue cat that needed rehoming because it had become violent after its last owner died suddenly was a great friend and comfort to me.
A sudden onset of kidney failure hit him last April as I started my cancer treatment and he was a very sad loss.
I suppose it is only once or twice a day that i catch him trotting by in the corner of my eye.

I also know if my old Dad has come to visit. Jane and I both smell his tobacco smell (no-one has smoked in this house since he died in 1985).

I used to live in a very creepy flat (apartment) on London - AndrewG will remember it. Most evenings there were very easily heard footsteps from the basement to the top floor - and more than once they passed right through me if I was on the steps.

Our little moggy cat used to sit with us in the lounge and watch ... something we couldn't see walking across the lounge almost every night.

The building was only a couple of hundred years old but there was talk of there being a fire once that killed someone and some cats.

Of course I don't really believe in ghosts but I suspect that us mere humans may have something in our large but largely useless brains that can recreate a faint memory somehow.


There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
- Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio

Must get another cat.

[cotten]

Have you ever heard things you shouldn't be hearing? My first thought was of a truly bad band concert given by lovable 11-12 yr. old kids. The clarinets squeaked, the trombones splatted, the saxes honked, and the flutes tooted. (As in stank up the place!) The percussion section adlibbed with total abandon. As much as I smiled and congratulated my young friends, I was secretly wishing I wore hearing aids so I could turn them off. I do now, but today some of those kids are playing professionally. I shouldn't have been hearing that first concert, but I am glad I did!

cotten

[Bob Womack]

My last cat, Oreo, died rather suddenly six years ago after being with us for seventeen years. It took several years before I quit seeing movement out of the corner of my eyes. It's a funny thing: I don't know whether it is a familiar comfort thing the mind just expects to see and therefore supplies or what.

Bob

[Long Jon]

Yeah, I’ve had that seeing late cat out the corner of my eye thing before... I guess it’s just some memory trick (?)

[frankhond]

When I was 4 something I was treated with streptomycin, an antibiotic no longer in use because it causes deafness and/or blindness in children. For a long period afterwards, I would hear someone spin a metal lid over and over on the floor in the kitchen at night. It kept me up many hours. The adults kept checking but whoever was doing this was faster, they never caught him.

And yes, my hearing is damaged.

[TBman]

My wife had heard something similar to my experiences during the day as well so I'm not completely gone yet.

My late mother-in-law smoked and every now and then we get the hint of cigarette smoke coming from her old room....

[Julian Mount]

Sometimes I hear voices.
They tell me what to do.
Sometimes I hear laughter.
I don't know from who.

[tbeltrans]

Originally Posted by TBman

My wife had heard something similar to my experiences during the day as well so I'm not completely gone yet.

My late mother-in-law smoked and every now and then we get the hint of cigarette smoke coming from her old room....

It is when they start biting and leaving little gifts of puddles and little "cigars" on the floor that you may want to start worrying, because you can't see them and putting them outside, even if you could, would do no good anyway.

Tony

[00Buck]

Yes, it's the constant screeching in my ears from tinnitus. No one should have to listen to it.

[D. Shelton]

He sends me strange transmissions
Full of dangerous advice
I reply 'well, thank you, God
But I think I'll keep those thoughts on ice'

Bill Nelson - 'Ordinary idiots'



(we're all ordinary idiots)

[marty bradbury]

Originally Posted by 00Buck

Yes, it's the constant screeching in my ears from tinnitus. No one should have to listen to it.

Yep, I've had the same ringing for many years. Different octaves at times.