My cousin was one of those people that was absolutely sure the sun would make a sound. He was slightly relieved when he got his hearing aids, walked outside, and it was quiet lol
Knew what it was gonna be before opening it!!
Thought I knew what clip this was, I was not disappointed.
Your cousin was correct, the sound of the sun would be deafening if the sound waves traveled through space. It is really loud, we just can't hear it due to the vacuum of space.
In space, no one can hear the sun scream.
It is, in fact, not the sound of a constant hydrogen bomb, but that of the Sun God being constantly tortured in the depth of the Sun while also being burned alive.
And he likesit.
Ripley: "I can't find any milk for my coffee." Xenomorph: "In space, no one can. Here, use cream."
Technically, the Sun does make a sound, and a rather extremely loud one, too. We've just got some extremely highly effective soundproofing between us and it, in the form of a few hundred gigameters of extremely-low-density gas (the "vacuum" of space is never quite all the way perfect vacuum, having roughly 1 hydrogen atom worth of stuff per cubic meter in even the sparsest areas we can observe, and in the inner solar system is actually pretty far from perfect vacuum, but still plenty rarified enough to not conduct sound well).
For me the sound of cicada calls is the sound of sun
I actually thought it did as a kid and I'm not deaf. Turns out it was cicadas lol
But so many movies and shows have a shot of the blazing sun with cicadas in the background it just made sense!
Snow. I have a deaf friend who learnt rain and wind made sounds so just kind of assumed snow would too. She was shocked when we finally had snow and realised it didn’t make a sound falling. She did appreciate the sound stepping and crushing it makes at least!
Funny enough when there is a ton of snow, outdoor ambience is all much quieter.
Heavy snowfall mimics sound insulation. Each individual snowflake saps a little bit of the energy in a sound wave and when the air is full of them the air itself turns cottony.
You describe this beautifully.
Wow, that is so accurate! It does sound cottony. It's a very particular brand of silence.
This is my favorite part of snowy weather
Snow falling makes an anti-sound. Everything is quieter when it’s snowing. Somehow to me that means snow makes a sound— or at least there is a distinctive sound difference when snow is falling, if that makes sense?
I have always been able to tell when there's snow outside as soon as I wake up. The difference is sound with snow on the ground vs no snow is pretty distinct for me.
When enough snow falls, it does make sound! It’s a very soft ticking/popping that sounds like a muted step in “perfect for snowballs” snow.
It’s the snow compressing under the weight of what’s fallen.
(I understand that you mean it doesn’t make a “noise” but this is a neat little thing)
Sometimes you get that blizzard-y snow/sleet mix that sounds and feels like you're being sandblasted.
Wait until you get Wisconsin thunder snow. Fucking wild!
Snow can definitely make a variety of sounds as it falls. Sometimes it's a sort of soft kind of white noise as it collects, sometimes it's a sort of ticking or brushing sound, sometimes it's almost a dull roar or rumble if it's hard enough. I've only gotten to experience it a few times but it's very peaceful.
My uncle is deaf. When he got his hearing aids for the first time he was shocked and confused that refrigerators make noise. He was also very shocked when he realised that Trees don't. He knew about wind and that wind made noise in the leaves, but he had thought that trees themselves made noise because he had read "sound of the trees" so many times. He said he had expected them to humm or vibrate.
If you are in an old growth forest you will hear the trees sway and bend and crack.
I was hiking in the woods once and I heard what sounded like a huge round of fire crackers. It was so loud. It took me a second to realize it was the sound of a tree falling. I couldn't believe how much cracking and popping there was.
I had taken a family vacation to California’s Redwood Forest, and the sound of the little hard pinecones falling from 200 feet up make a startling loud pop when they hit the ground. I can’t imagine the sound of one of those falling over and smacking the ground
At the trailer park we used to weekend at we were among very tall pine trees, and every year the green pinecones would become ballistic missiles dropping form 80ft up. They'd hit the roofs of the rvs or peoples sheds and it was a loud af BANG. First few times it was scary. You also learned to bring in anything you didn't want a hole in. They broke chairs and tiles and awnings. You also realize how assholish squirrels are.
You also realize how assholish squirrels are.
Trees with any kind of nut or seed pod in your yard will teach you this very quickly. Mine has a wide open space surrounded by trees and if I stand in it for very long walnuts or sweetgum balls will come "falling" into it regardless of wind direction.
We had an ice storm Jan 2024 which I didn't even know was a thing, everything got coated in an inch or more of ice and you could hear huge branches and even trees breaking all day long, it was honestly kind of terrifying
oh yeah those storms fuck everything up, not many things hold up well with all that extra weight and torque
yes, I lived through one of these in Portland, OR (where it "DoEsN'T FrEeZe") and it sounded like World War I.
But does it make a sound if you're not there!?
Right before the witch gets you.
Nonsense. There haven't been witches in these woods for a hundred y
Dear god....
Serves him right. Everyone knows Reddit is no place for little 18th century german children to hang out
I browse in dark mode specifically so I can't see people dressed in black on this site.
No, the Deer God is currently kept in a SCP facility.
They said witches, not Candle Jack. Witches wouldn't j
Oh my god. Fucking Candlejack. This is a meme that needs to d
This joke is so dumb, everyone knows Candlejack isn't r
Classic blunder. You're supposed to say "his name", you know, like saying "He Who Must Not be Named" instead of Voldemort. If you actually say Candlejack you'll... oh shit wa
Not if you are the witch! LOL
There’s always a bigger…witch.
...is she single?
That was cool! Thank you!
You’ll hear this in a new growth forest too.
Also medium growth forest.
The downside of being in the medium growth forest is that you're at high risk of running across Mindy St. Claire looking for cocaine.
Ah, the middle growth forest; so easily forgotten.
It's always Old Growth, Old Growth, Old Growth!!!
Visiting an actual old growth forest is pretty magical. The moss, old man's beard and other things create a unique atmosphere and there's minimal echo, and noise doesn't travel as far.
That’s them deciding if you are an orc.
Wind's howling
I’ve heard of quite a few deaf people expressing surprise that trees don’t make noise and I realize it makes me sound like a nut but it does make me suspicious. What do they know
If you put your ear to them you might hear the water going up the xylem.
That’s actually kinda beautiful the idea of trees humming feels like something out of a storybook wild how language shapes our senses like that
Hrum, hoom
Not completely deaf, just extremely hard of hearing
My older brother had me convinced for almost 40 years that silence wasn't actually quiet. He kept repeating the phrases "The sound of silence" & "Silence is deafening" and I was solidly convinced that there was no such thing as a moment with no noise
When I finally got my hearing aids, I learned really quickly what those phrases actually meant and I felt very dumb
Silence is never silent for me. I have tinnitus
Yes, for me the sound of silence is "yeeeeeeee"
Is it a high pitched one? I thought that was normal silence.
Ahh, welcome to the torment that is finally having a name for what you hear all the time (tinnitus), and realizing that it’ll never go away.
Some people can hear their heart beat in their pillows. Also, a hell on earth
I'm just now learning that that's not normal. I often hear my heartbeat in my pillow, though it kind of depends on how my head is resting on it.
That's what I thought too
I’m trying to save my kids from damaging their ears. They just don’t understand how annoying it is to NEVER have an actual moment of silence. Luckily mine isn’t too bad, just a constant, soft whistle/hum. I think that’s the best way to describe it.
There's not really a true silence a human could "hear" to experience, even ignoring tinnitus. In very quiet rooms without external sources, even autonomous bodily functions become clearly audible. You will hear your own heartbeat and gastrointestinal gurgles.
A vacuum doesn't help there either since the sound waves transmit through your body. Plus, exposing your ears to near-perfect vacuum will really hurt and potentially lead to an injured ear drum.
Definitely not dumb. How could you know? Especially with your brother messing with you.
When it's too quiet, my ears ring, so for my silence absolutely has a sound.
My sister is Deaf, and got cochlear implants a few years ago.
She's also a jogger. She was very surprised to learn that her breasts don't make bouncing noises when she runs.
This is my favorite one. I’m trying to imagine noisy boobs now.
For some reason If I had to come up with the sound they make it would be like a "boink" noise. Like hitting a buoy.
In my head it’s a cartoon “bo-o-o—OING!” sound
Honestly, I'm surprised I haven't come across that as a subgenre online.
There were these "sexy prank show" clips all over the internet 15 years ago
The "prank" was very often a womans breasts getting exposed and the lady acting as if nothing happened (while the pranked men didn't know how to handle the situation).
They used a common \boing** sound when the tits came out and I might have seen enough of those videos to associate that boing with boobies
I remember a teacher of deaf students saying she had to get the class together and tell them people could hear them fart
I was just thinking about that post
You know why farts smell? So deaf people can think they are funny too.
Boing boing boing boing... lol
It's so relateable that people with hearing also know the noise her boobs would make.
Depends on how much support you have, how big they are, and how fast you're jogging hahahaha
slap, slap, slap, slap, slap
You forgot the slightly mistimed one - slap, slap, slap, slorp, slap, slap
ow ow ow ow ow MAH BOOBS
I always thought butterflies made a fluttery sound when flying… turns out they’re silent little ninjas
I'm Deaf and while I have a lot of moments where I'm like, 'that makes noise?!' but I don't have a lot of moments that's the opposite.
However, just the other day, I was fiddling around with a printer's system, and I moved something, I figured it would make noise. I asked if it made noise. It did not. I was so confused.
I enjoy figuring what makes noise, what does not.
The conclusion? Y'all are living in a very noisy world.
But we grow accustomed to those “background” sounds and our brains have adjusted to tune them out. Something I’ve done since my early teens is to occasionally sit perfectly still and “stretch out” my hearing to count how many sounds I can hear. It’s amazing to find I’m filtering out distant traffic, a bird singing, or the hum of a fan.
Unless you're autistic and that filter is weak, just randomly stops working sometimes or even doesn't work at all for some people.
Lmao I was gonna say, my adhd ass does not do a very good job at filtering sound
My sister is deaf and a great lover of cats. One of my favorite things in the whole world is when she grabs my hand to place it on the ribs of a purring kitty. I don't know if she knows that a cat's purr can often be audible and honestly I'm not going to be the one to tell her; the joy she gets from the tactile sensation of a happy animal is absolute joy in it's purest form.
Beautiful. <3
The variations in how loud cats purrs are always gets me. With my sister's cat you can't hear her purr unless you're quiet and listening for it. Whereas with my cat he sounds like a motor and you can hear him from the other room!
When I first got hearing aids I didn't realize I left my oven vent fan on for months at a time, also didn't realize my kitten was so talkative! 😭
Aww. That's so cute! I bet it was wonderful to hear your little companion!
The cat was probably tired of hearing the fan
OMG I spit out my coffee reading this
This made me smile. I’m curious to know what you thought when you heard your kitty for the first time!
Did you kitten bat at you lots?
Cats only meow at humans because it gets our attention - otherwise they stop it once they grow out of being kittens (they meow for their mothers attention). I've seen a few videos of cats with deaf owners and they learn really quick to jump into their eyeline or use their paws to get their attention.
Of course my little void does the same thing if I'm not quick enough to respond to her vocal demands... nothing like watching a movie and saying "one sec I'll feed you after this ends" and getting a cat jumping onto your chest to block your view.
I am deaf myself. I have been wearing hearing aids since I was 18 months old. Every time, I get new hearing aids I find a few things that I never knew they made a sound.
A couple of examples:
When I was in my early 20’s, I didn’t know moving my hair away from my hearing aid made a sound. The wind whistling while driving or my dog’s tag hitting the car window.
When I was in my mid 20s, I got new hearing aids. I was shocked to discover air conditioning makes a noise when they start blowing. I never knew this.
I heard one where the person didn't realize ppl knocked on the front door. She just thought it was magic or crazy luck that someone would be there when her mom opened the front door.
About 10 years ago, I had a neighbor who was deaf. She showed my friend and I her doorbell setup.
She had a doorbell, but instead of making a sound, it flickered the lights in a certain pattern.
My sister in law has a deaf pig at her pig rescue. She also found a dj light, the kind that spins with four different colored bulbs, at a thrift store. Now that light is the signal for Henry to come eat. It's pretty cute, he gets so excited it's like his song just came on at the club.
I used to dogsit for a deaf Great Dane. His people had used signs (not ASL signs or anything, just specific gestures) to teach him commands. The gesture for "come here" was jazz hands.
The hand sign for my deaf dog to come here is the ASL sign for milk.
Are you saying your milk(hand)shake brings the boys to the yard?
Brings the good boys in from the yard
This made me happy. Thanks
Growing up i had a friend who had a deaf father. Their doorbell made noise for everyone else in the house but it also triggered this weird mallet thing in a few areas that hit very hard on the floor a few times making a very muffled "thud". But it was hard enough and there were enough of them you could feel the thud from almost anywhere in the house. Thinking back a light probably would have worked much better.
I kind of dig the thud. It just sounds so insane to invent/install.
It reminded me of a powered foot pedal for a drum set.
Reminds me of me: I grew up in a very rural area, no restaurants of any sort near by. The first time I was at a friend’s house in the city (I was about 6) and they had pizza delivered, kind of blew my mind.
I grew up poor. I didn’t have pizza delivered until my 20’s. It was amazing.
She was never with someone who knocked on a door?
Might not know the knock made a noise, or was a door bell and just thought it was a button not stating a chime
But never seen a movie, tv show, video where someone knocks on a door and then the person inside reacts?
It's definitely the sort of thing that sounds baffling to adults, but I can totally see a kid not making that connection despite all of the information being there.
lol that’s kind of sweet
My neighbour got an implant in his teens. Someone had previously told him that a fire makes a crackling sound, and for some reason he assumed that water would make the same sound.
My older brother is deaf and once he got his hearing aids he called me freaking out because he had no idea that wind passing through the leaves on tree made noise of any kind so he assumed that he was having a problem with the hearing aids he was not obviously and it was hilarious having to tell him what the noise actually was
I find it interesting how the top two comments are about a deaf person who was surprised that trees dont make sound, and another deaf person surprised they do make sound.
I know one is about the wind passing through leaves, but still
I know what you meant, but you just wrote the same thing twice lol
As a person with significant hearing loss, I love "outside" mode on my hearing aids, because it dulls wind noise. Nature is so loud 😭
Fucking same! I just thought wind was an invisible thing we only noticed by its effects 😂
In college there was a guy in my class who had been deaf and got implants, and was surprised that electric light bulbs don't make noise. He'd just assumed that they would.
Some do, the ambient bzzzzzzzzzzzz. God I hate that noise
Fluorescent lighting :/
I didn't realize that birds were so goddamned noisy until I got hearing aids.
Fucking SAME. OH MY GOD.
Erections don't creak??
They don’t creak at all. But you know those batons that you flip on way and it goes “euuuugh” and then flip the other way and it goes “eeeuuugh”? That’s what it sounds like when you switch positions during sex.
Like a wombat swallowed a slide whistle
I can hear this comment.
Feels like most people don’t understand the question 😭
I just don't think there are a lot of good answers to this. I know what makes noise that I can't hear because I see other people react to noise. If something doesn't make noise and I can't hear it, why would I assume it makes noise if no one else indicates that? The question is coming from a hearing perspective that doesn't reflect the hearing impaired experience (for the most part). The first time I got hearing aids I didn't have a single "I thought that made noise, but it's silent" moment. I had countless "wait, that makes noise?!" moments.
Holy shit why are so many people so bad at reading?
The opposite question gets asked a lot so I'm assuming people are jist reading the first 2 words and assuming it's the same question. Wild that not a single comment so far has actually responded to the question though.
The top comment when I got here was the right way around, the uncle shocked that trees don't make noise
"Literate people, what's something that you read and didn't pay attention to at all before you answered it?"
Deaf here (since birth). I had the opposite happen: when I got my most recent hearing aids a couple of years ago, I heard myself pee for the first time. I went 40-something years having zero clue that pee makes a sound when it comes out until that moment lol.
Not a deaf person, and this might be absolutely fake, its something I read some time ago. There was deaf guy that somehow got his hearing back, and he imagined the sun making noise.
Still, might be 100% false, but I think it was an interesting story.
Well it does in movies when people are lost in the desert
When I get heatstroke, there is this tingling in my ears. Heat induced Tinnitus.
I think the directors want to show this feeling when they let the sun make noise in the movies.
How often are you getting heatstroke?
I heard this story too! its why i wanted to hear others storys of weird things like this.
I mean... it probably does if you're close enough to it.
I also remember reading this one, I believe it was a post similar to this one on reddit a few years back.
I have ready every single comment at this point, 95 responses, and I believe a single one of them actually read what OP asked
Remarkable reading comprehension Reddit, truly exceptional
Point me to the single one that really answers the question!
It was the sun I believe
I (not in a weird way) like the one where his sister thought her boobs would make a bouncing noise as she ran😂 that and the sun is the only one I’ve seen😂😂
Not deaf myself, but a deaf friend once told me they were shocked to learn that sunrises don’t make sound. They thought that, like in movies, the world plays music when something beautiful happens.
I’m not deaf, but I do have hearing loss. I lived with it for a long time before I finally got hearing aids, and I didn’t realize how much I was missing. What surprised me most was just how loud the world really is. Everyday sounds I’d forgotten or never fully heard before suddenly came alive. For example, when I went for a walk, I was amazed by how many birds were chirping all around me. Even the crunch of gravel under my shoes and the rustle of leaves in the breeze seemed almost overwhelming at first. It made me realize how much my brain had learned to filter out or simply accept as silence.
My mom has ADHD and hearing loss runs in the family. She refuses to get hearing aids because it's nice and peaceful for her. (She used to work in a very noisy environment.)
Absolutely this!! I’m not deaf but significantly impaired until I had a BAHA implant. I just forgot sounds for 29 years. Birds were the most beautiful sound to relearn! It was quite overwhelming at first and initially I only wore it a few hours at a time.
Heyyy! I have a BAHA too! The overwhelmingness of how loud the world is for about a week after you first start wearing it gave me constantly headaches.
Reminds me of when I got my glasses. I only have astigmatism, so my vision isn’t really debilitating, just can’t make out lots of detail and things are blurry, so when I was a kid I just decided not to wear them. Only things I had problems with were street signs or if they’d show someone’s text messages or an email or something in a tv show or movie. Getting glasses again in my twenties I felt like I was on mushrooms or something; I couldn’t stop staring at the texture of the wood on my fence when I got home. I probably just stared at it for like ten straight minutes.
This was me when I saw the night sky with my glasses for the first time!! I didn't get glasses until I was 17, just never knew that I needed them because I thought the way that I was seeing was normal. I never complained to my parents or anything like that, and like you said, it was mostly just blurry, so I just didn't realize that other people were seeing way more detail than I did. I could (obviously) see the moon and stars, but it was just never clear, edges were never crisp, everything was bright but blurry. The first time I saw the moon and stars with glasses on, my mind was absolutely blown. I didn't know that being able to see it that clearly was even a thing and really just never even put any thought into it because I didn't realize there was any problem with my sight. It was so nuts to me that I could like, see each individual star clearly instead of seeing them as just blurry blobs. I still think about it sometimes when I look up at night!
I don't wear my hearing aid because everything being so loud was stressing me the fuck out. It wasn't helping me hear things, because everything was loud, so i still couldn't differentiate.
I was told to wear it non stop to get used to the new sounds, my brain was learning to differentiate apparently. But my brain was also interpreting stuff as conversation or words, when it was just the fish tank or 3d printer sounds. I knew it was not worse or conversation, but it wouldn't stop and I couldn't handle it.
I do remember being amazed by how much birds sang. I do miss that.
My gf is like this. We finally convinced her to get hearing aids bc while she thought her hearing was normal, she couldn't understand normal speaking voices (she's worked in middle/high schools for 20+ years so ... that level of noise is her default).
She haaaaaaates her hearing aids bc they don't discriminate against sounds. Everything is at basically the same level and it's more input than she wants. She wears them like 1/2 the time we're at home and recognizes their utility at work and when she's alone with the baby, but otherwise she absolutely will try to fake her way through understanding conversations w/ her hearing aids out haha
If you watch babies when they are outside or anywhere there is “ambient noise” you’ll start to realize how much noise you’ve been filtering out as you watch them react to the noises.
I worked in a school for deaf kids. One of the teachers had to explain to her class of 10 year olds that yes, farts make noise.
You know some of those kids were like 😳 thinking back on all the farts in front of people
I’ve had a lot of deaf friends over the years. This is a common problem lol
I have a friend that can't smell. When we were in college, we were in a busy study room, He got up, farts, and proceeds to walk around the room. I yelled out, "you're going to trail it around the room!" His response was, "they trail?!"
He went 20-something years without knowing this important info as he crop dusted everybody for the last 2 decades.
There was a friend years ago who I had a major crush on, until we were dared to make out one night at a party and they had really bad breath. 🤮
They’ve now been married many years to another friend from that group who has no sense of smell. I guess there really is someone for everyone…
I think most of us have friends that can smell
But that is the opposite of the question...
Funny that not a single deaf person made it to the comment section
I'm single & deaf 🤷🏼♀️
no blind dates then?
They probably didn't hear about it..
There are a lot more discovered noises, than thinking something made a noise but didn't.
That's probably why OP asked this question, because we hear much more about what people found out make noises, so they are probably curious about the lesser-known stuff
Literally no one read the question
I grew up with 2 deaf siblings . 1 of them went deaf when he was 13 from Scarlett fever so he knew the sounds but after 27 years he forgot.
He got bi-lateral cochlear implants after being 97 percent deaf for 27 years .
He didn’t know or forgot that cabinets make noises he opened and closed one squeaky cabinet for 10 mins .
He forgot about the birds chirping , he sit outside one morning in awe of all the sounds being made by the birds .
After getting them put in which is a process it wasn’t instant because they have to be tuned for months and it’s almost too much to take at first . He would wear them for a few hours then take them off . He said it sounded like a speak and spell from the 70s / 80s at first . After about 6 months he gained up to 85 percent word recognition and hearing .
I don’t think he ever said he thought something made a sound that didn’t , but he was able to hear for the first 13 years of his life .
It was more he forgot certain things made sounds because he didn’t have to deal with them for so long .
I've heard a lot of dead people think the sun has a sound.
Do you often speak with the dead?
On occasion
I hear dead people.
I remember reading a post years ago about how these guys when they were in junior high told their deaf buddy that your body made a sound when you get an erection and all the girls would hear it. He was freaked out. That's pretty messed up but still funny.
Not deaf, but worked with a deaf person (from birth) who had schizophrenia. They said they could hear their auditory hallucinations. What does that even mean?
Still blows my mind years later.
I have profound hearing loss. I also have schizoeffective disorder. Whenever I'm not sure if what im hearing is real, I take off my hearing aids. If I still hear it, it's not real.
Being essentially deaf really does help with differentiating real from hallucinations. Prior to getting my hearing aids it was...scary.
It's actually not uncommon for deaf people. Especially after removing a hearing aid for the day, the lack of input in brain can cause auditory hallucinations.
He would've had more though being schizophrenic.
Actual deaf person, whose hearing aids were shit for a long time:
fingertips touching things (pressure doesn't always translate? Weird)
wind blowing through hedges or bushes (I thought it would be like, some kind of botanical screaming match. Not so!)
cats walking (they are actually really quiet?)
water pouring (it makes noise when it hits things, it doesn't itself)
buttons on the TV remote (may be model specific?)
that thing that holds flyscreen doors open, with the tube and the longer narrower tube, I always felt like I was announcing myself when the door opened because that thing made noise, and then I found out they were hearing the door ITSELF rattle
changing the channel on the TV (it looks like it SHOULD make a noise, like FLIP or THWIP or something)
stretching rubber bands, hair bands, etc (they look and feel like they should, but no? Weird)
rubbers/erasers don't make noise when you use them?? (I always felt like I was loudly announcing I MADE A MISTAKE when I used one in class, but no!)
plugging/unplugging things, when I discovered there really was no mechanical sound to indicate you'd successfully connected/seated a powerplug I was infuuuuuriated, how is there not a noise for that??
similarly, when plugs slipped out of jacks, like back in the modem days, or when my Ethernet slips loose enough to interfere with my connection. How is there no alert or something like 'beep beep check here first'? Baffling
braiding hair, I thought it would make a lot more noise than it actually did
I'll come back with more as I think of them.
I volunteer to be an interpreter at a deaf school for events and I’ve worked with the same kid for over 2 years now and he recently got hearing aids. I yawned and he was very suprised it was quite silent. He imagined it would be an “AHHH” sound
omg i always wondered if deaf people just assumed yawning is screaming
Generally, yes haha
I've also read they think the sun makes noise. Can you imagine a world where tired people walk around screaming and the sun buzzes like a jackhammer?
Well technically it does, but we’re lucky the vacuum of space doesn’t allow sound to travel or else it would be heard
TBF, some people do yawn loudly!
I have a friend who fucking bellows all of his yawns
Is he my husband?
Great, now you made me yawn!
Watching flight attendants yawn must be interesting 🥹