This will probably be the stupidest thing you've ever heard, but surely I can't be the only one who gets what I call the "Ipod Paranoia".
Basically, while on the train or on the bus, there will undoubtedly be at least one person nearby you who is listening to an Ipod (or any mp3 player), and equally undoubtedly, you will be able to hear it. It is pissing annoying, but can be tolerated (even when it's the worst music humanly imaginable).
But all this passive hearing experience has left me paranoid that no matter what volume my Ipod is at, everyone within a mile radius can hear, and the thought just makes me panic. I don't know whether I feel like people will judge me, or I'm just so concious of how annoying it can be, but still, it hits me hard.
So often I can be spied at a bus stop, taking my earphones out every minute to make sure it can't be heard.
And guess what, not once have I been able to hear it without my earphones in. But still, the Ipod Paranoia rages, and I don't know whether to commit suicide now and get it over and done with or wait until I die from the excessive ear friction...
Anyway yeah.....just thought I'd share, and see if anyone else suffers from this condition.
No, I got over this when I realised that you can't hear jack shit unless it's turned up way too high.
I have the same thing if I turn my volume up too high.
What smurfy said.
It's called being insecure.
Nah if you use the little ear bud things it's fine. I like to listen to music through headphones though and I can hear it without wearing them.
get ear-canal headphones if you don't already have em, they sell sennheisers in most stores get those if you find em
also man up op, who fucking cares what people think of your music
Get in-ear isolating headphones then no one will ever hear them unless they put it in their own ears.
Yeah I get this, occasionally, which is why I did this:
[QUOTE=B-hazard;21149731]Get in-ear isolating headphones then no one will ever hear them unless they put it in their own ears.[/QUOTE]
When I'm outside I tend to hate everyone around me so I just have the volume as loud as possible and give them dirty looks when they look at me.
Fucking social god.
I sometimes feel like that. I can only suggest what b-hazard said.
Just turn them all the way up so that you know that they can hear it.
Haha I sat on the bus next to a fat girl the other day who must've have her headphones on inside out. Her music was so loud that I turned mine off because it would've deafened me to make it loud enough to not hear her crappy ass music.
Get headphones that cover you ear. Bam, now you don't need to put it up so high.
[QUOTE=emPiRe14;21150263]Get headphones that cover you ear. Bam, now you don't need to put it up so high.[/QUOTE]
but then everyone starts looking at you because you now have on expensive headphones.
I suffer from this condition.
I get something similar but possibly more weird. I sometimes become aware of my breathing when i'm listening to music, and I get short of breath because I can't tell how loud i'm breathing (due to the music), so I think i'm sounding like i'm breathing really heavily/creepy-ish and I take really shallow breaths to compensate. I have to take out an earbud so I can breathe normally.
That's odd, I never experience such a feeling when sitting in the train with my boombox on my shoulder
What the hell I have the same thing I thought I was the only one. I'm alwayst thinking the volume is way too high up and everyone can hear me so I turn it down a little. Then 1 minute later I get the same feeling with the turned down volume so I turn it down a bit again. This process repeats until it's at the lowest volume possible and I can't even hear anything anymore but I keep thinking it's too loud. This is pretty annoying since I travel by train (busy train) 2 hours a day and my only entertainment is my Ipod.
This happens to me but my headphones actually do that at almost any volume.
Part of the problem is it sounds louder to other people than it sounds to you when you take them out to check because your ears amplify the music when the headphones are being worn.
[QUOTE=Xen Tricks;21150358]aware of my breathing[/QUOTE]
Fuck you dude, now I'm aware of [i]my[/i] breathing.
I'm afraid of this but I have non-leaking headphones so it doesn't matter.
Talk to a counselor about this. It's pretty trivial though.
I always had this and still have it. :(
I feel the exact same way, I mostly listen to classic shit like lotr soundtrack, Apocalyptica etc. And i don't want everyone to think I'm a die hard fan of lotr (I'm not).
At nearly maximum volume, i can't hear shit without earphones in a silent environment. But on the bus i still play at medium :P
I shit myself when my phone vibrates
Haha, I was just wondering about this myself. I used to do this, but then I just learned that everyone can fuck off and ignore to what I'm listening to.
Definitely get a set of in-ear earphones; even my cheap pair of Sony earphones have great sound quality, barely any sound leakage, and are super-antisocial (you can't hear shit with them in). If you want to spend big on a pair of Sennheisers go right ahead, but the slightly cheaper ones on the market should do the job just as well.
Only idiots who turn the volume up full have this.
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