What used to be rather ordinary and benign noises are bringing me to a moment of stark attention.
Odessa is on a particular flight path for the military. There is also the CAF nearby and a civilian airport, etc.
Until recently, the occasional rumblings and sounds of aircraft overhead hardly drew my attention.
But now, especially at home when it is quite otherwise, I get a sensation that could best be described as “fight or flight”, like an ultra awareness. For the moments it takes the aircraft noise to fade, I'm telling myself how stupid I am for being so paranoid.
But it happens every time nonetheless. Weird. Is it too much coffee?
It’s probably your spidey feelings that something is coming so your senses are heightened. More military aircraft and changes in their flight schedules have alterted you that it’s not the norm.
As for soiling his pants. Big deal. Clean is up and get on with business. A momentary laspe shouldn’t throw the entire plan out the window.
Do you think the sounds have gotten louder than they used to be?
Three possibilities:
1. Age - how old are you? Seniors tend to go two ways with sound - they lose hearing or their hearing is super sensitive and sounds become louder than they are, causing them to jump at loud sounds.
2. Fibromyalgia - excess electricity originates in the brain and nerves go nuts with excess power causing pain everywhere and nerves involved in hearing become super sensitive and the person jumps at sounds that wouldn't bother people without fibromyalgia.
3. You are so involved in thinking of disaster that may be coming, you have become super sensitive to sound, as in “Is this the big one?”.
Have a talk with your brain, assuring your brain that loud sound will not hurt you - that it is normal for you to hear that. Tell yourself you get a treat when the next loud sounds come - like a special drink or cake or something you would like and you can't have it until the loud sounds happen.