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12 Jan 2007, 10:47 pm

I love flickering fire (candlelight, fireplace)! I like fish aquariums.

I do gently rock myself (even in public places, but not overtly) - more like swaying. I own a metronome with a digital pendulum and I love it and use it everyday to pace myself.

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13 Jan 2007, 2:14 am

I love thunderstorms. They calm me. If I'm awakened by one, I stay up and listen to it. And I'm notorious for listening to certain songs on "repeat" for hours upon end. That's the only way I can write essays. Without it, I blank.
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13 Jan 2007, 2:25 am

I listen to the Benny & Joon album over and over in my car.

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13 Jan 2007, 4:30 pm

LabPet wrote:

I love flickering fire (candlelight, fireplace)!

Flickering flames - oh yes, definitely. And sparkling or softly blinking things. I love those transparent clocks with colored liquid inside that can flow back and forth in blobs, candles, Christmas lights or any sort of open fire. But that's more along the lines of happy, as in, slightly crazy-happy, than calming.

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13 Jan 2007, 8:31 pm

Oh, yes, yes. I like it like that....sigh.

Sorry. I suspect repetitive external sensory stimuli fulfills the need for order/pattern/routine inherent to "our kind."

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13 Jan 2007, 9:17 pm

Listening to a cat purring is very soothing to me.

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13 Jan 2007, 11:08 pm

fires have always soothed me a lot too. My parents house has a fireplace in it, and it was always so relaxing to lay down on the floor in front the fireplace and watch the flickering flames. Sitting around a campfire or a bonfire while out in the woods or some place secluded with some friends is very relaxing too, especially on a beach, where you can hear the sound of the waves spashing on the shoreline

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15 Jan 2007, 7:57 pm

ixochiyo_yohuallan wrote:

The rain is both calming and a little exciting (all things I like and stim on tend to be that way). Especially that warm rain in the summer, when the drops are huge and fall rarely and you can hear them go "thud...thud....thud" on the leaves.....then all of a sudden it's a shower and the rain is falling in solid sheets. I think it's not only the rain that makes me happy, it's also many other things like watching the leaves or sidewalk shine, hearing the sound of it in the trees, the balmy scents and so on. But the sound of the rain itself definitely is soothing.

But not the fall rain that goes on and on for days, and it's all dreary and gray outside. I grow to loathe the weather at such times. It's probably got to do with my bipolar phases having a seasonal quality - the fall is when things tend to go bad, and I need a lot of sunlight so when it's been cloudy for a long time, I start feeling dull and distressed.

When I listen to music, it's usually like this - I get stuck on a single song or a couple of them, and listen to them until they lose their first fascination. That may take a few days, a few weeks or months. Then I find some other song to get fixed on. Buying an mp3 player was really a good decision; now I don't need to record special cassettes with my favorite songs to listen to, and changing songs or arranging them takes no time at all.

cool,we have this in common.

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15 Jan 2007, 11:21 pm

I perfur rainy days to sunny ones. Other kids thought I was just weird or gloomy. Intense sunlight is painful for me. I used to keep trash bags on my windows to prevent sunlight from comming in. As a kid I had an obsession with water.

I can listen to the same song for weeks.

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17 Jan 2007, 7:20 am

the most soothing type of music is ambient(eerie music often played in quiet malls)
it helps me sleep, and does a better job than drugs,warm milk or counting sheep.
I recorded the sound of rain, spanning for 40 minutes but its not the same.

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17 Jan 2007, 9:12 pm

I guess I'm the only one who doesn't like the sound of rain. To me it's just added noise and I find complete quiet the most relaxing. I do like 'white noise' things like a fan on or the ocean setting on my sleep machine when there are too many other noises and I want to block voices from outside or my own thoughts on nights when there are too many and too fast but complete quiet is my first choise.

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19 Jan 2007, 3:13 am

AspicViper wrote:

I perfur rainy days to sunny ones. Other kids thought I was just weird or gloomy. Intense sunlight is painful for me. I used to keep trash bags on my windows to prevent sunlight from comming in.

Same here, 'cept I used cardboard, covered in aluminium foil. There's nothing quite as depressing as waking up, thinking I'm going to see a beautiful gray sky, only to go half-blind, so I stoped looking out at all for a time. Not quite as bad now, but mostly due to constat dissapointment, so I don't bother getting my hopes up much any more.

As for songs on repeat, only the longer, more complex ones are doable. Something like Rob Dougan's Clubbed To Death I can leave on repeat for hours at a time, easily. Damn sweet song to zone out to. Meanwhile, NIN's Complications, while a great pice of music by any standard, starts to get annoying after more than 3 or 4 repeats. It's got the complexity I love, but it's just too short.

And Coca-Cola, especially if I haven't had any in a while. I know, it's got caffine in it, and in the long run keeps me awake, but for me it's the liquid equivilent of some good rain, or music, and the three are best taken together.

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19 Jan 2007, 4:06 pm

Music calms me. Even if the music may be angry or disturbing music. But right now, I find Kraftwerk music to be calming.

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19 Jan 2007, 9:13 pm

Posting on WP calms me.

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19 Jan 2007, 9:20 pm

Listening to 'Dreams' by The Cranberries calms me....

Oh my life is changing everyday
Every possible way
Though my dreams, it’s never quite as it seems
Never quite as it seems

I know I felt like this before
But now I’m feeling it even more
Because it came from you

Then I open up and see
The person fumbling here is me
A different way to be

I want more, impossible to ignore
Impossible to ignore
They’ll come true, impossible not to do
Impossible not to do

Now I tell you openly
You have my heart so don’t hurt me
For what I couldn’t find

Talk to me amazing mind
So understanding and so kind
You’re everything to me

Oh my life is changing everyday
Every possible way
Though my dreams, it’s never quite as it seems
’cause you’re a dream to me
Dream to me

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