IndieVisible

My hearing loss is not severe but bad enough to need two hearing aids. With the HA's I hear good! With out them I can still hear but every thing sounds a lot lower and softer. So only sounds near by bother me when i sleep or really loud sounds.

But the strangest thing use to happen to me some times when I sleep. I would be in between wake and sleep state. I could hear voices as if people where in the room with me, but I was asleep but the voices would wake me up! Later I learned that this is common state of being inbetween sleep and wake state. It's very strange if you ever experienced it you would know! Since my hearing use to be good years ago and did not start getting really bad until about 5 years ago my hearing is still perfect when I dream

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that's really interesting because when i had severe-profound loss (profound in left ear and severe-profound in right ear), i experienced my dreams through touch and tactile sign.

For example, when i communicated with others in my dreams, they would use tactile sign and i would sign back.

now that i have ci's, i'm starting to hear more and more in my dreams. voices are becoming more distinct and clear and i'm also noticing that i can hear more environmental sounds.

my former ci audi told me that it's not uncommon for those who have been deaf for a very long time (or who had severe-profound hearing loss like i did for 10 years prior to receiving my first ci) not to be able to hear in their dreams.

She also said that when a person starts to lose their hearing, they may still be able to hear in their dreams, but that the ability to do so continues to decrease over time in proportion to the degree of hearing loss.

Dixie

I hear nothing in my sleep. Dad could be right out my window mowing the lawn at 6:00 am on a Saturday morning and I would not hear it. However I do hear my alarm go off everymorning, I have it on LOUD as well as making my cellphone light come on. More times than not, it is the light from my cell phone that wakes me up rather than the alarm. Mom says she can hear my alarm go off all the way downstairs from my bedroom, and the bedroom door is closed, so I must have a really loud alarm. Oddly though, my DD is so used to it going off that anymore she'll stir when it goes off, but as soon as I shut it off, she just blinks then goes right back to sleep. She is a very deep sleeper, sometimes it takes a lot to wake her up. Occassionally though she'll wake up and not be able to go back to sleep, so I take her downstairs to let her sleep with my mom while I head off to work.

Another thing is, my mom has a backup alarm in her room so that if I should not hear my alarm and not wake up, her's is set to go off 15 minutes after mine does and if I'm not up and around by the time her alarm goes off, she usually comes and wakes me up to make sure I get up and get to work on time. 90% of the time though I do get up with my alarm but there's been 2 or 3 times that mom has had to come wake me up.

As far as hearing in my dreams, it is about the same as what I hear during the day. The speech I hear is mostly garbled by sound alone, so I have to speech read, in my dreams it is the same way although in my dreams I tend not fuss about what was said as its usually irrelevant to my day-to-day living.

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dixie,

this used to be the case for me when i still had some residual hearing without aids. i used to have an alarm clock whose alarm was so LOUD you could hear it clear across my apartment. one of the nice things i liked about this alarm clock was that the frequency of the alarm was adjustable so i could set it to a low tone i could hear. i still have that alarm clock and use it whenever i have important appointments i can't miss (i hear it by sleeping with my ci's on).

Hwy99

I think I am having an issues with my house, it's haunted! I always hear glass breaking, screaming, chainsaw engine, stomping on the roof and under the house, explosive, gun shots, and many more! Even though I hear those crazy sounds, nothing happened in the sight! Scary!!









Just kidding Sometimes I only feel the heater blowing the air.

Cheri

Oh I KNOW! Remember the time when GalaxyAngel was banging/kicking your hotel room door in St. Louis MO? She almost broke that door down. That was so friggin hilarious!

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Dixie

ROFLOL, when was this? When I went to St. Louis back in summer of 2001, I ran into a deaf group at Six Flags, could have this been you?

I had a similar experience at a hotel in Wichita, KS. I was in the bathroom getting dressed while my roommate went down to the vending machine to grab a snack, one of my friends at the time came to return a shirt she had borrowed the night before from her room and my roommate walked up to the room seeing my friend kicking the door trying to get my attention for me to open the door for her, I never heard her. Apparently she had been knocking for several minutes before my roommate happened to walk up to let her in.

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Cheri

Oh no that was when we had the first alldeaf caucus in St. Louis.

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JeepGirl

LMAO!!! yes.. the vibration is what woke me up!!!! yes! GA did kill that door!

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Jiro

absolutely nothing and proud of it. a very peaceful sleep! except.............. daily routine by my dog... scratching on top of me to get inside my blanket or sleeping on top of my legs. he does this nearly exactly same time everyday - about 7am or 8am.

Lavender

At night I can hear rarely by the door banging, screaming loud by the hallway, making a drawer noise in my room n' coughing loud next to me that causes me to wake up.

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omegaman

I think I hear tinnitus, which drives me crazy...

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hohDougRN

No, don't hear at night, but doesn't mean I don't sleep. blah

I try to get all my sleep while I drive

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society's_child

We are geniuses at filtering out noise. No sweat.

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Mistyrose

Not unless i wear my hearing aid, and
thank goodness, i dont cuz i sleep like
a baby WITHOUT my hearing aid...

Pepsi

I can't hear a thing without my aids

Buffalo

My former sister in law can't stand the ticking clock either. She put it under her bed at the foot end.

I don't hear a thing when I sleep. I know I can hear a loud snapping fingers right next to my good ear. What wake me up are anything that produce viberations, breezes, lights - That is it if I am not in that deep sleep.

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shel90

When I am alone with my son, if I lie down, I must have my HAs on just in case I doze off. I still can keep "an eye" on him using my HAs but barely. Better than nothing though.

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Bottesini

Not much. But we have a split level house and five steps leading up to our bedroom.

When my husband fell down them this summer, it woke me up. Not sure if I heard the loud crash or it just shook the house.

He got a broken finger and two broken ribs.

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Lissa

in my house we'v had a boiler almost going to blow up and making a lot of noise, the alarm going off continuely which doesnt wake me up at all! Not even fireworks or shouting will wake me.

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Mistyrose

I hear ya! Thats what i used to do when my son was
a baby and a toddler, i had to keep my aids on, just
in case, he cries during the night as my ex hubby was
also HOH..
Now, he is grown...heh..I can sleep like a baby...

Koala

Without my hearing aid on at night, I can hear loud thunder above the roof, doors slamming close by, sometimes someone banging on the door or window close by, dog barking in my room. Also I can hear my hubby's snoring close into my ear and I can feel his snoring by putting my hand on his chest. I have a severe to profound hearing loss.

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SimplyMints

I can't hear anything, but my ability to feel vibrations seems to be extraordinarily finely tuned. Also, I woke this morning from a dream that I could hear, and I was having a spoken conversation with my grandfather. Neither of us were signing at all, and I could hear his voice perfectly, and he seemed to be able to hear mine perfectly too. BTW, he is also deaf, but he can hear some things if he can see them too. It was a weird experience waking to a silent world.

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i had a similar experience following my second ci surgery. because of my ci's, i lost all of my residual hearing in both ears. the night after my second ci surgery i had a dream about my deceased mother. in the dream we conversed by voice and i could hear everything she said clearly. i could also hear environmental sounds as well as i could before i started wearing hearing aids. when i awoke from that dream, it was like a surreal experience because i was suddenly drawn into a world of silence and had temporarily forgotten the fact that i could no longer hear.