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I usually don’t go to the theater, but I have problems understanding dialogue in most movies at home. I typically turn on subtitles and now have a set of AirPods dedicated to the Apple TV. That’s helped a lot.
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I usually don’t go to the theater, but I have problems understanding dialogue in most movies at home. I typically turn on subtitles and now have a set of AirPods dedicated to the Apple TV. That’s helped a lot.
Clix Pix
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I have trouble, too, understanding dialogue in movies or TV shows at home, too, but I dislike subtitles and closed captioning so instead I use a very good pair of bone conduction headphones (my hearing loss is conductive) and watch movies on my computer. rather than the TV. Never did watch much TV anyway, but if I were interested in something, iTunes offers quite a few "seasons" of various shows.
Scepticalscribe
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Lioness~
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I got a new package with a some more oils the other day, wonderful 🙂
My little oil-pharmacy starts to be pretty solid now.
Used a mix of clove, tea tree, turmeric, thyme, basil, oregano and frankincense.
Will continue with this. Toe is sweating of it, but healing.
I know nothing about them, but I imagined that they would have some kind of noise cancelling that would reduce distortion?
Scepticalscribe
macrumors Haswell
Ah, thank you!
That sounds a brilliant selection, and I am delighted that it seems to be working well for you.
When travelling - which is often - I always carry tea tree, olbas oil (eucalyptus) and citronella, and sometimes, lavender - which my father loved - as well.
Clix Pix
macrumors Core
It’s been a while since I’ve looked into new hearing aids — in fact, I’m due for them now — but as I said earlier, in general, hearing aids, although they have come a long way technologically, still really cannot fully replicate the functionality of the human ear. The issue with sound distortion comes from whatever particular type of hearing loss the person has, and as far as I know, that can only be corrected to a certain point by any electronic device.
Lioness~
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I still have to get lavender. I have some old little bottle. Nice oil too, out of so many 🙂
I wanted to chose those that I wanted to use for particular inflammation now.
Next time, I'll pick some relaxation oils too.
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Gutwrench
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I dislike subtitles too. *sigh* I’m single except for two dogs and feel bad turning the volume up to help understand the dialogue — which often doesn’t help much. The Airpod have been a good workaround. I’m glad you have a workable solution. A coworker’s husband has been successfully using a set of bone conduction headphones. I hadn’t even heard of them until six months ago or so. Good luck.
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Is used to hate eucalyptus until I moved to California and drove by them daily. (I use it in my sauna now and I love it.) The same with urbana...used to hate it but now find it a relaxing fragrance.
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Clix Pix
macrumors Core
Since I live in a condominium apartment unit I am always aware that there are neighbors around: above me, beneath me, on one side of me, and so that is one reason I prefer to use my Shokz Trekz Air BT headphones rather than turning up the volume when watching a film. I also use the headphones for listening to music, especially late at night — I’m a night owl — and they work well for that, too.
Today, working on my bathroom project, I hurt my right hand. I was squeezing a 1 1/2” pipe cutter, that was not cooperating when I heard a pop in my right wrist along with discomfort. At first I was worried I might have broken my hand. But although it is sore, tender, I can move it without difficulty. Anyone know what happened? Might this be a tendon popping out of its proper place?
I’m not. I’ve suggested the idea of gender tags in the forum but no interest in that apparently. FYI, you may know this, but if you want to really get our attention, put a “@“in from of a user’s name and they will get a notification.
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1. I’m a guy who is deeply respected and stately, charming, debonair, and vastly modest. I’m so modest I could go on and on and on about how modest I am. 😵
2. Okay, the only portion that’s true is I’m a dude.
3. Op. cit.
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Gross warning:
So all day Friday, at a rate of about once every 10-20 minutes (but sometimes as frequent as just a few seconds apart), I'd get a sharp stabbing pain in my right ear. The pain didn't last for more than a second, but it was so shocking and intense every time it happened, it would usually cause me to wince and breathe heavily for a few seconds (and swear under my breath). (At first I wasn't even sure it was my ear that was the problem; the pain radiated a bit down my jaw and made it hard to pinpoint). But soon it became obvious that it was my ear and when I mentioned it to my mom, she suggested I use Debrox, an earwax removal aid. So I put the drops in and lay down for the required 10 minutes, then flushed my ear out with a bulb of warm water repeatedly. At first nothing was happening; I even felt the pain while the drops were in. Until finally, after about 8 injections of warm water, a large, nasty-looking glob of orange earwax came out. 😱 Not only did it suddenly seem like I could hear better (I hadn't even realized my hearing had been diminished), the attacks of pain stopped and have not recurred since. I guess this is something that one should do every now and then... 😕
So all day Friday, at a rate of about once every 10-20 minutes (but sometimes as frequent as just a few seconds apart), I'd get a sharp stabbing pain in my right ear. The pain didn't last for more than a second, but it was so shocking and intense every time it happened, it would usually cause me to wince and breathe heavily for a few seconds (and swear under my breath). (At first I wasn't even sure it was my ear that was the problem; the pain radiated a bit down my jaw and made it hard to pinpoint). But soon it became obvious that it was my ear and when I mentioned it to my mom, she suggested I use Debrox, an earwax removal aid. So I put the drops in and lay down for the required 10 minutes, then flushed my ear out with a bulb of warm water repeatedly. At first nothing was happening; I even felt the pain while the drops were in. Until finally, after about 8 injections of warm water, a large, nasty-looking glob of orange earwax came out. 😱 Not only did it suddenly seem like I could hear better (I hadn't even realized my hearing had been diminished), the attacks of pain stopped and have not recurred since. I guess this is something that one should do every now and then... 😕
Scepticalscribe
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Tennis elbow earlier this year (which I still suffer from, but not as severely as earlier in the year).
And, these past two nights, either a trapped/pinched nerve in my left shoulder, or a 'frozen' shoulder.
This is pretty sore - it was agony last night for around an hour and a half - and then eased off when I took some painkiller, but it still aches quite a bit.
And, these past two nights, either a trapped/pinched nerve in my left shoulder, or a 'frozen' shoulder.
This is pretty sore - it was agony last night for around an hour and a half - and then eased off when I took some painkiller, but it still aches quite a bit.
cdcastillo
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I'm just obese, but working on it before it leads to other complications.
Apple fanboy
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Stick with it. I lost a lot of weight 2 years ago and have kept it off. Feel much fitter for it.
Yes.
I've set a reminder for every two weeks to Debrox the ears. Does a great job and safer than jabbing in a cotton swab. Even at every two weeks, do notice a big difference re: feeling in the ears after Debrox-ing.
BTW: there are cheaper generic versions of Debrox.
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The Earworm, also known as Involuntary Musical Imagery (INMI)
Women and men experience the phenomenon equally often, but earworms tend to last longer for women and irritate them more.[17]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earworm.
Do you experience this, suffer from this, and/or have tried to cure it? And if you don’t mind revealing, what is your general age? I’m 65. I recently started practicing meditation, and although music has played in my head on and off for decades, it’s now something I find irritating.
This odd mental phenomenon demonstrates how little conscious control we have over our own brain and what happens in our head. After all, this is our brain, singing, inside our head, and we cannot make it stop?!
This research, conducted at Western Washington University, refuted the idea that earworms only come from irritating repetitive jingles (like the one from those "Nationwide is on your side” commercials). In reality, even “good” music, like songs by the Beatles, could create them. The researchers found partial support for the theory that earworms occur as a result of the Zeigarnik Effect, in which our minds get stuck on incomplete mental processes. This theory suggests that our brains can get "hung up," when we hear an incomplete song that we do not know well. Because our mind can’t “put the song away” and finish it, it gets stuck like a needle on a record, or as in "Groundhog Day," playing the same unfinished snippet on nonstop repeat. In the 2012 research, both complete and incomplete songs created earworms—and people who were more musically talented were more prone to develop earworms.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/...201505/5-steps-finally-get-song-out-your-head
I was hoping that meditation would cure this although it was not my motivation for starting meditation. I’ve discovered that willing it away is difficult, I can suppress it, but if my mind wanders it returns.
Six of the best ways to cure an earworm
http://www.sciencefocus.com/article/six-ways-cure-earworm
The first and easiest step is to pick up a pack of gum... I’ll report back. I also have a sudoku app. 🙂
The Earworm, also known as Involuntary Musical Imagery (INMI)
Women and men experience the phenomenon equally often, but earworms tend to last longer for women and irritate them more.[17]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earworm.
Do you experience this, suffer from this, and/or have tried to cure it? And if you don’t mind revealing, what is your general age? I’m 65. I recently started practicing meditation, and although music has played in my head on and off for decades, it’s now something I find irritating.
This odd mental phenomenon demonstrates how little conscious control we have over our own brain and what happens in our head. After all, this is our brain, singing, inside our head, and we cannot make it stop?!
This research, conducted at Western Washington University, refuted the idea that earworms only come from irritating repetitive jingles (like the one from those "Nationwide is on your side” commercials). In reality, even “good” music, like songs by the Beatles, could create them. The researchers found partial support for the theory that earworms occur as a result of the Zeigarnik Effect, in which our minds get stuck on incomplete mental processes. This theory suggests that our brains can get "hung up," when we hear an incomplete song that we do not know well. Because our mind can’t “put the song away” and finish it, it gets stuck like a needle on a record, or as in "Groundhog Day," playing the same unfinished snippet on nonstop repeat. In the 2012 research, both complete and incomplete songs created earworms—and people who were more musically talented were more prone to develop earworms.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/...201505/5-steps-finally-get-song-out-your-head
I was hoping that meditation would cure this although it was not my motivation for starting meditation. I’ve discovered that willing it away is difficult, I can suppress it, but if my mind wanders it returns.
Six of the best ways to cure an earworm
http://www.sciencefocus.com/article/six-ways-cure-earworm
The first and easiest step is to pick up a pack of gum... I’ll report back. I also have a sudoku app. 🙂
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Gutwrench
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Sure I’ve experienced it.
I don’t label my experience as suffering.
Cure? For me it’s merely an occasional, minor and temporary malady.
Well then, experiencing. 🙂
With me it’s daily, however it did not really bother me until I started meditating. Of note when I sit down to meditate, it goes away, but later comes back as I go about my daily routine. It bugs me that my brain is producing this without my conscious consent. It’s like who is in charge here? 😉
Clix Pix
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I enjoy ear worms when it is my favorite singer’s voice floating around in my head....if it is some silly jingle, I’m not so pleased! I find that if at times it is one particular song going around and around that eventually becomes annoying, the best “cure” is to play other music and that often will remove the persistent ear worm (and sometimes start up a whole new one, or sometimes just serve to make it all stop and go away).