I woke up in the middle of the night because I could hear my cat horking something up. Leaped out of bed, hoping I could catch him before it got on the carpet.
Not only did I not make it, but my bare foot squished down into the cat vomit.
I dearly love that cat but this evening I could hear him horking again down the hallway. I can’t find whatever it was, and I know it’s lurking out there, waiting.
What sounds don’t you want to hear?
I read the thread title and immediately thought “cat horking.”
Me too.
One lovely night, the cat was throwing up on the bed I was sleeping in. About a foot from my head.
The mean, horrible ugly hiss that Meeko gives Bear when he tries to steal her liver treat.
Trump’s voice
I have misophonia, so most of them, lol. Really though it’s mostly soft sounds that distract me. I seem to hear everything and it drives me nuts with the light sounds hitting me often harder than the loud ones. Chewing noises being up at the top, I start feeling stabby.
The other day I bit my tongue, hard, and kind of heard it pop in my head. That was an uncomfortable noise.
My car has a bezel on the dash that vibrates sometimes when I drive that I really don’t want to hear.
A bump followed by “AY!” when you open a door.
Ask me how I got this split eyebrow 
Pencil writing on paper is my weird one.
Worse than cat horking is waking up to the “urp…SPLAT” and then comes the skitter skitter of puppy feets across the floor followed by the most enthusiastic lapping noises you’ll hear outside of payday at the whorehouse. I mean, on the one hand I’m kinda happy I won’t step in it and won’t have to clean it but on the other hand I feel awful for letting that dog behave like the cats are treat dispensers. It is a quandary.
It’s the homeowner in me, but the one I hate hearing in the middle of the night is dripping. Not like a faucet dripping, but something unidentified. Like when it’s raining and I swear I can hear water dripping inside a wall or on the kitchen floor. Luckily, it’s never been that. The closest it came to that was when I spent probably an hour going back and forth between trying to find the source (sounded kinda like water running) and trying to ignore it long enough to fall asleep. It wasn’t raining, nothing was leaking but I could still hear it. Eventually it turned out to be my cell phone charger buzzing very faintly.
As far as pets puking. I hate to say this, but there have been times I’ve just ignored it. Honestly, they’ll do a better job cleaning it than I will at 3 in the morning. 90% of the time I won’t even know where it happened by morning.
“It’s not supposed to do that.”
“That’s never happened before.”
One of my favorites–a doctor saying to me, “I don’t know what to tell you.”
And then the ever-popular, “Oops!”
~VOW
A butterfly’s scream. Once you’ve heard that, it’s game over.
Oh yeah, unexplained water noise is enough to make me wake up in a cold panic sweat. I had a busted laundry hose flood a few years ago and I swear it gave me homeowner PTSD.
You’ll never forget a rabbit screaming… :eek:
Home alone in the deep dark Boonies and something skittering across the deck. When the cats fly to the beams beck gets the gun.
Some critter skittering around inside a wall. The first time it happened it scared the crap out of me, because I thought it might actually be in the room. Realizing it was in the wall wasn’t much more reassuring.
Fortunately, every time it’s happened, I’ve been able to call a professional to deal with it.
Wild turkeys or people throwing up Wild Turkey in the parking lot near your car. Both sounds will raise the hair on the back of your neck.
That, oh I don’t know what they call it musically, maybe
‘Crescendo’ of a high-revving Two-Stroke engine just before it seizes and grinds to a halt.
Heard it a few times. Dreaded it every time.
Music to my ears!
I love that ‘thunk’ when you hit your target.
The eeriest thing I’ve heard in the woods is a Bobcat scream. It will curdle your blood.
Many years ago, I got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. On my way back to bed, the toilet refilling sounded…odd. I sat down so I wouldn’t ‘lose the tired’ and waited out the toilet. It finished, but the noise was still going. The furnace was running, but it sounded odd for that too. I waited that out. When it kicked off, the noise was still going so I went to investigate. When I got down to the basement, all I could see was smoke, or what looked like smoke. Turned out my water heater sprung a leak so the noise was water running and the ‘smoke’ was steam filling the basement.
While still half asleep I remember thinking to myself ‘okay, stay calm, this isn’t that bad, what do I need to do’. I shut off in and out valves on the heater and shut off the gas for the heater, went back to bed, told my (now ex) wife she couldn’t take a shower in the morning and fell asleep.
Went to Lowes in the morning and installed the water heater a few hours later.
Luckily, my water heater and washing machine are just a few feet from a floor drain, so it wouldn’t have been catastrophic had I not noticed it.
There is one thing to be careful for even when your appliances are close to the drain. My neighbor had her basement flood because the water heading toward the drain carried something with it (a small rug I think) and set it right over the hole.
So, word to the wise, make sure there’s nothing near the drain that can cover it by accident.