“Birds in the morning. I had no idea they sounded like that. I straight up cried in bed the first time I heard them properly.”

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"Oh I got you beat, I got my hearing aids in and I heard this horrifying, unreal noise. It was like something from a nightmare stalking me. I looked everywhere and I couldn't see anything, just empty hallway. Then I turned a corner and saw it. A crumpled plastic bag was being shoved around by the air conditioner." — NeuHundred

"The new sounds that threw me the most were...

1. I put sugar on my cereal, and I could hear the sifting of it. That blew my mind in the same way kids who get glasses realize trees have leaves. I never considered that was a thing that could make sound.

2. I just about lost my mind when I was up at the cabin and I could hear this warbly, tapping, rumbling sound with that hostile, unpleasant edge to it that I described above. I could not conceive of what it could be, wandered around looking for the sound. Was it a kettle boiling or something wrong with the water heater? Was a phone playing something on its speakers? A family member came back inside and I asked, and they told me it was rain pattering on the tin roof." — Wildbow

"I knew a man who had a cochlear implant and then had it removed after about 6 months. Said that the sounds were too noisy. That surprised me." — Now_ThatsInteresting