[sdiy] How does your sound perception change while you're falling asleep?

[Mike Bryant]

Mine's always caused by an excess of alcohol :-)

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From: Synth-diy [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org] On Behalf Of Benjamin Tremblay via Synth-diy
Sent: 18 August 2022 16:33
To: cheater cheater
Cc: synth-diy
Subject: Re: [sdiy] How does your sound perception change while you're falling asleep?

Every time I have thought my sound perception changed as I fell asleep turned out to be caused by snoring. 

Benjamin Tremblay

> On Aug 18, 2022, at 11:06 AM, cheater cheater via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> I'm sure many have noticed that your sound perception changes in the 
> moment immediately before falling asleep. I was wondering if anyone 
> would like to describe what effect they hear. Since we all know 
> synthesizers, synth and audio engineering related terms are going to 
> be very useful here.
> 
> I suggest writing down whatever you can remember before reading the 
> rest of the thread, so you don't get influenced. Then read the thread 
> to see if anything seems familiar.
> 
> If you make any observations in the future, come back to the thread 
> and add to it.
> 
> My description follows below.
> 
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> 
> I've been dozing off just now with the AC on (wide band noise, biased 
> towards LF). The sound suddenly changed to something like a very deep, 
> quickly animated chorus effect applied to the sound. By quickly 
> animated I mean it sounded like multiple parallel stages (3-5?) with 
> separate LFOs where you could hear LFO peaks of the various LFOs maybe
> 5 times per second.
> 
> Other times, in a room without wideband noise - eg watching a podcast 
> on youtube - sound seems to cut off fairly cleanly with a short decay, 
> like maybe 0.2-0.5s decay. If I'm coming out of it sound will show up 
> again. If this keeps on cycling I can perceive those holes in sound.
> It sounds like the cleanest ducking gate, no click, no coloration.
> 
> I remember back in high school I wasn't getting a lot of quality sleep 
> so once or twice before falling asleep i'd hear auditory 
> hallucinations. Usually what amounts to children's voices laughing or 
> saying something I can make out but not understand. Not exactly 
> related, but one time I was so tired at school that I dozed off 
> between classes. A classmate tried waking me up and I started talking 
> to him, still in a dazed state, but no real words came out, just 
> gibberish. That's never happened before or since, and it was odd 
> enough that I took note of it.
> 
> Best regards
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