Listen, my house is now turning to the frickin Conjuring.
And I'm not a fan.
I'm a fan of The Conjuring.
I'm not a fan of my house being The Conjuring.
Hi, welcome back.
So, I've done a couple of videos on this,
mostly on Instagram, for Instagram reels,
and on TikTok, which if you don't follow me,
hello, but as far as I recall,
I have never done a full fledged video talking about the actual sounds
that now scare me ever since I've gotten these hearing aids.
I've had them for practically a year at this point.
Let me tell you the first time that I started hearing
things that I never thought made noise.
Actually, I know from a scientific standpoint
that everything makes noise.
Blinking makes a noise.
When you never heard it or you just don't remember because it's been
so long and then you hear it, it's something, it's something.
Probably the scariest thing that we could start off with this,
the washing machine that I knew, and I could sort of hear the vibrating,
you know, when I would open the door and I'd be right
at the washing machine and it's going, you know.
That I could hear, or maybe it was just feeling
it and maybe thinking like, I don't know.
Regardless, having the actual hearing aids
in and the first laundry load it started,
ever since I realized that my machine shrieks.
And see, I can't hear high pitches very well without the hearing aids.
I never really could, as far back as I can remember,
it was always deeper tones for me that worked.
But it shrieks and I fully thought, I genuinely thought,
that my machine was broken,
which brought on a whole new level of stress.
But as it turns out, it just makes that
noise and eventually it stops, I think.
I don't remember, actually now.
I would try to stop my washing machine.
I would attempt to unplug it.
I can't reach it, so that option was out.
It just made this awful, awful, freaky noise that scared me.
And then I eventually figured it out by
the second load that that's just what it does.
It's just simply what it does.
And I don't need to go and buy...
Nobody needs to go out and buy a new washing machine,
which is great because those things are not cheap.
And since this one keeps interrupting the videos by screaming,
obviously, I know cats meow.
I know Simon meows.
If you followed me during my Twitch days,
he would always show up on streams shrieking.
I never realized until now how much of a screaming demon he sounds like.
I love you.
You're like a son to my little Deaf Demon Bob, but holy crap,
why do you sound like you're in agony all the time?
And why do you sound like I'm starving you to death, which I am not?
Again, you were just fed, that's why you're cleaning yourself now.
But here you are just...
Screaming!
Zane never meows, like never.
He's broken, I guess.
He only makes a noise when you hold him and he's tired of it,
so he growls at you a little bit.
But Simon just shrieking.
Should I make merch of Simon screaming?
I think that would be hilarious.
Remember when I mentioned The Conjuring?
Yeah, I did not know refrigerators buzzed or hummed, or whatever it is.
That they do.
Doesn't do it all the time, a couple of times an hour,
something like that.
I don't know.
I don't stand near the refrigerator that
long to notice how often it does.
It does a little humming thing,
like some sort of ghost is just floating around.
Annabelle, what are you doing?
Actually, Annabelle's terrible.
Annabelle would suck on her own because she needs
somebody to do her work for her and help her out.
Annabelle itself is not a problem, but still,
Annabelle, what are you doing?
It's the nun that I would be more worried about.
Speaking of which, I'm gonna have a horror channel, eventually.
So, I'll let you know about that later.
I'm not rushing it.
I'm trying to prep for it ahead of time.
Like, well.
Another thing, driving and the road and cars.
Yes, deaf people can drive.
I know people are still surprised by this in 2022,
but deaf people can drive.
And you know what?
There's a reason we're better at it than you all.
Stats said it. Stats said it.
Statistics said it. It's in the papers.
But I don't like the sounds on the road.
I don't like knowing the random noises on my
car because now I'm thinking everything,
every noise it makes now, is telling me that
my check engine light is gonna come on soon.
(KNOCKS ON WOOD).
I don't like the roads, they're too freaking loud.
And now I do actually like to listen to the music
with my hearing aids in because otherwise
I have to put it max volume and then everyone
else hears it and start staring at me.
The problem is listening to it with hearing aids -
and I don't mean directly streaming into my ears,
I do that at home and things like that,
but when I'm actually out and driving,
I would just have it go through the car speakers and that's not at max.
It's still turned up a little bit more,
but it's not at the very max level.
But the important thing is, hey, yes, I can listen to new music and I'm
hearing things that I never heard before in songs I listened to before.
But the road, I also very much hear the road.
And I don't like that.
Whereas, if I just had the music all the way up at max volume
- which isn't really good for the speakers, I get that.
But alas, I wouldn't hear the random sounds.
And now people are gonna be thinking, "Well,
you need to hear the sirens and things like that." No, I don't.
No, I don't.
I could see engines fine.
There's never been a real difference,
other than me being curious and wanting to be like,
Oh, let me roll down my window and hear
what they sound like as they go by.
But I've had sirens, I've had ambulances and firetrucks
and whatever go past me before and after the hearing aids,
they don't make a difference because I always see them.
So, there's that.
The squeaking, when it comes to furniture,
now I know why everybody keeps telling me to oil my chair.
You know, back when I was streaming,
the chair that I got, it just squeaks.
It squeaks horribly.
That sound doesn't really scare me, it's just very annoying.
What does seem to frighten me from time to time is when I'm walking on
the floors and there's some specific areas of the floors that squeak.
And I knew they were squeaking anyways before hearing aids,
because I can feel that.
But there's something about hearing it
that just makes me more paranoid that
a hole is gonna come through and that I'm gonna fall to the first floor,
which would still be my home, because this is a two-story,
but not exactly something that I really like, though.
Not really.
Horror movies might actually scare me just a little bit now.
I feel like it's a toss up.
Horror movies without sound are frightening because
if you're a deaf person in a horror film,
living a horror film in real life.
Not being able to hear when somebody is coming
at you would be a little bit frightening
because you can't always use your eyeballs for things,
like if it's dark, right?
It makes it a little bit harder to use your eyes.
But one of the upside was that I wouldn't be able to hear
the creepy sound and screaming and whatever else,
but now I can when I'm streaming it into my hearing aids and now
I sometimes get a little bit more uneasy watching some films.
And now that I'm thinking about it, I'm gonna be rewatching Gonjiam,
the Haunted Asylum with my friend Kayla when we're hanging out again,
when I'm back in Omaha.
And that was the one movie that really scared me to tears.
And I don't want to go to sleep,
but I watched it with headphones in or on rather,
and so I heard a little bit of it.
And that's part of why it freaked me out so much.
But now we're going full fledge, gonna be hearing
this one particular part that I hate.
I can't believe I suggested this.
I told her I would rewatch if she'd never seen it,
I told her I would rewatch it if we watched it together.
And I'm gonna be watching it with my hearing aids,
because obviously she's a hearing person, right?
They're a hearing person.
So, I wear my hearing aids around them.
Gonna be reliving that, "full hearing," quote unquote.
And I'm looking forward to it.
But I'm also very much not looking forward to it because
that's gonna be the one thing that's gonna petrify me,
the one not "real life," quote unquote,
sound that's going to scare the crap out of me.
I'm already like, (SHRIEKS) thinking about it.
Is there anything else that I can think of?
It's mostly just I don't do a whole lot, right?
So, it's really the same sounds over and over and over.
Yeah.
No, if I really had to think about the couple
of things that really do petrify me.
I mean, now I'm used to it, whatever.
But when they first started coming up, the driving, the roads,
the washing machine and my Conjuring fridge.
And, of course, if anybody is like dropping...
Like if I'm at a restaurant or at a coffee shop
and people are dropping things, you know,
that gives you a sudden startle,
but that's like normal for everyone, right?
I'm gonna be getting these readjusted next week again because my first
readjustment did not work as well as I thought that it would.
I do have a video on that, if you want to go check that out.
So, we're gonna see what these get adjusted
to again and see if there's anything
else that's going To weird me out or frighten me because who knows?
With the first readjustment I started hearing things I never
could before for almost whole year, an entire year.
But now let's see if anything else happens,
if anything's different and new second time around.
So, my fellow hearing aid users let me know in the comments below,
when you first got your hearing aids, what scared you?
Narrow it down to the few that really,
really petrified you when you first heard them,
either for the first time ever, again, whatever.
You know what I mean, you know what I mean.
Let me know in the comments.
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