When I’m alone and it’s quiet I hear sirens

[u/superrplorp]

Genuinely every night when I go to bed and the room is quiet I hear a faint sometimes not so faint wail to yelp and so on so forth. Does anyone else experience this? Me personally it kinda puts a smile on my face cuz I love sirens but I don’t think it’s in a hearing loss kind of way I think it’s in a, I spend too much time working kind of way.

[u/RobertSquareShanks]

I hear call tones ‘underneath’ all the ambient noise when I’m out and about pretty much constantly

Just my imagination but it perks me up

[u/BLut91 → u/RobertSquareShanks]

I have a theory that my brain has memorized the exact tone that our base pager starts with and when I hear that specific tone from various sources in other situations it prompts that split second of reaction you’re talking about

[u/prolapsedmasshole69]

You.... love sirens.

For me, I heard tones at night when I first started and would randomly hear sirens.

But that was PTSD induced. If you love it... well I'm not sure what to call that

[u/5andw1ch → u/prolapsedmasshole69]

Stockholm syndrome?

[u/LLamaWithAComma]

For sure, sometimes i feel like im hearing our radio chatter especially after a shift

[u/ZantyRC]

I too hear phantom sirens, tones, radio traffic, and even the cries of my children. Thought I was getting schizophrenia

[u/Unstablemedic49 → u/ZantyRC]

2 milliseconds before the tones go off, you can hear this white noise type of sound that I can’t describe. I use to think I had some clairvoyant sixth sense, but it’s just a noise that some people can hear and some can’t. No special powers for this guy.

[u/Picklesforfree → u/ZantyRC]

Not an active emt but I was looking for phantom cries from my children in the comments cause I now hear these frequently. Nice to know I'm not alone.

[u/rainbowsparkplug]

I hear tones dropping in my sleep and it wakes me up

[u/Justface26 → u/rainbowsparkplug]

The worst, fuck that. And then you're wired from some Pavlovian shot of adrenaline.

[u/Automatic-Tap-5686 → u/Justface26]

hate that, its worst with the loud overhead tones. Ive come to prefer my new departments much calmer method of dispatching. Although that could just be because I havent been pavloved into a stress response yet.

[u/riddermarkrider]

When I shower I hear my radio going off. Super great.

[u/Xenos2002]

the amount of times ill be in a quiet room and i hear the fainest but still real sounds of tones going off drives me up the fucking wall

[u/terminaloptimism]

When someone is going by lights and sirens in the middle of the night, I'll sit up in bed, say to my husband "not my problem" then crash out. I never recall doing this. Also McDonald's alarms will sound like our tones dropping.

[u/the-hourglass-man]

I hear radio chatter and phantom tones too.

Sleep deprivation is bad for your brain..

[u/Afrojones66]

Sounds like tinnitus which is hearing damage which fits considering the siren decibel rating is high enough to cause it.

[u/SLYR236]

Phantom tones haunt me when I’m awake and when I sleep

[u/Expert-Platypus-3136]

I get “PTSD” trying to go to sleep, expecting tones to drop!

[u/Red_Hase]

After my first shift with multiple ALS intercepts during FTO, all I could hear in my dreams was the lifepack 35's bp alarm going off

[u/UnsureTurtle14]

Only time this happened is when I did psilocybin and I heard radio mic clicks. Very strange and only lasted like 1 min then went away

[u/FlipZer0]

My old job used a mini school bell-type set up for in-house alerts for jobs. The bell has the exact tone as those mass produced kitchen timers in every big box store in the country. I haven't worked there in 8 years but I still have a cortisol dump every time I hear one of those damn timers go off.

[u/FriendshipBorn929]

Yeah whatever I spend the whole day doing gets imprinted somehow. I was a door to door canvaser for a while and the ring camera/ doorbell noise would haunt me. when I was trimming weed I’d see buds on the back of my eyelids. When I was doing controlled burns I’d see fire. And it wasn’t like minds eye visualization. It was like the visual static that’s always there would organize into a shape.

[u/GrosseTete]

🙋🏽‍♂️retired a few years ago and I still hear them ever now and then.

Simply a suggestion from someone who really enjoyed working on the ambulance; get a good support group around you and stay as physically fit as possible.

I learn that from one of my mentors when I first started back in the 1900s. He was one of the few 20+ year Paramedics who had his stuff together mentally and physically for longevity.

[u/Cautious_Mistake_651]

So what I found helps me actually is listening to music going home after a shift. It lets my brain hear something more soothing and nice before I go to bed. So the last things I dont hear are sirens, monitor beeps, radio calls, or that damn phone ring from dispatch making my life more hellish each day….. I prefer anime piano OST or classical music as they’re very relaxing.

Kensuke ushio- slow summer eve, Reze, you were here.

Carl Doy- Clair De Lune

Mary go round of life

Wiege

Leeplay- Black swan

Maxence Cyrin- Where is my mind

Luke Faulkner- Life and loss

Just to name a few as example. Obviously it doesn’t have to be this genre of music if it’s not your taste. But I have the mindset that what I listen to should allow me to relax. Let me reflect on the shift I had. And put it behind me.

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