When Sounds Become Annoying Sometimes, even the smallest sounds can sound like they're being shouted through a megaphone! I don't know why, but I'm very sensitive to noise. This can be any level of noise: bar noise, shopping mall noise, or just someone chewing too loudly or dragging their feet. It's all noise to me! I get caught up in it, my ears physically hurt and I become irritable, annoyed and unhappy. In short, noise makes me negative. I actually have noise canceling headphones that I used at the dog daycare I worked at, and I use them every day while I work at home or at the library, or when I'm doing something that's too loud for me, like mowing the lawn, sawing, or walking my dog ​​who always barks. I'm not kidding about the noises that bother me. A while ago, my husband and I went to see an action movie. He was the ultimate Superman - Man of Steel. About halfway through the movie I had to leave because it was too loud and chaotic for me. It was hurting me! I find that if I'm really trying to concentrate, the noises bother me even more. But relaxing, enjoying nature, and doing nothing are all times when noises can still bother me, especially certain body noises or footsteps. Also today a guy came around the corner as I was walking and he walked so hard! I knew it was ridiculous to be annoyed by his walking, but the sound drove me crazy. I have always been sensitive to noise. This is nothing new to me. I remember being in eighth grade and listening to the boy behind me tapping his pencil on his desk. I glared at him, but he kept doing it, so I took it from him and broke it. I'm not proud of it. Breaking the pencil was obviously excessive. But I couldn't stand the noise anymore. I also can't...middle of the paper......in the hypnosis session he was talking about going fast backwards into the noise and fast forwards into the noise, and I had no idea what the heck he was talking about. Also, there were pauses between his voice (I guess to make us imagine what he wanted us to imagine) where you could hear him swallow and almost sigh a few times, and then there were pauses where I thought my MP3 player was unplugged because there was no 'it was no noise! This was even more distracting because when his voice came back, it was loud! While I recommend self-hypnotherapy for other things, I don't think this is a problem area that would benefit from it. That said, I'll try it again. Maybe it was my mood. Maybe it was my expectations. But, as I stand now, I don't find it useful for helping eliminate noise problems when all you can hear is the noise in the earphones.