(03-26-2022, 02:13 PM)RTBoss Wrote: Hey, man, a win is a win.  Happy you have at least some change in a positive direction, whatever the cause and for however long it lasts.  Hope you continue to see improvement.

(04-23-2022, 11:17 AM)whome Wrote: Cycle 4 (Days 40–52)

It’s springtime, and as we move out of the deep freeze the boiler has been cycling even more and the wall has been popping even more. What that means is that of the nine overnights of this cycle, four of those times I had to put in an earplug to sleep before the six loops were complete. However, because I start the sub a while before I go to sleep, I’m usually about 6–7 hours into the 8 hours total, so I did get most of the loops.

I understand that’s not completely following the rules, but right now that’s the best I can do. In a week or so, it should be warm enough that they’ll turn off the boiler for the system and I can just hit play and fall asleep without worrying about things like this.

It’s been four cycles now, and there’s no sign of autoconfig. On the other hand, either the earplug requirement to sleep is interfering, or perhaps it just doesn’t work for me, so I can’t say I’m surprised here. Let’s wait to see what happens once the popping stops, and I’m listening strictly to schedule.

(This summer I’m doing some construction with lights in my ceiling, but come next winter, I am chopping a hole in the wall to figure out what’s up with that popping.)

Meanwhile, I’m emotionally shot. The grief and pain continue to burn, and I’m not sensing anything going on from the sub. I am not ruling out the possibility of it doing something that I’m missing, for the reasons I noted above, but I’m not in any position to catch anything that is only subtly manifesting.

Next on cycle begins Wednesday/Thursday. Maaaybe the boiler will be off by then?

(04-23-2022, 08:46 PM)London1 Wrote: Im interested to see what Shannon has to say about the lackluster results with UH.
Im planning to use it but it doesnt look promising from the journals Ive seen.

(04-23-2022, 08:46 PM)London1 Wrote:

(04-23-2022, 11:17 AM)whome Wrote: Cycle 4 (Days 40–52)

It’s springtime, and as we move out of the deep freeze the boiler has been cycling even more and the wall has been popping even more. What that means is that of the nine overnights of this cycle, four of those times I had to put in an earplug to sleep before the six loops were complete. However, because I start the sub a while before I go to sleep, I’m usually about 6–7 hours into the 8 hours total, so I did get most of the loops.

I understand that’s not completely following the rules, but right now that’s the best I can do. In a week or so, it should be warm enough that they’ll turn off the boiler for the system and I can just hit play and fall asleep without worrying about things like this.

It’s been four cycles now, and there’s no sign of autoconfig. On the other hand, either the earplug requirement to sleep is interfering, or perhaps it just doesn’t work for me, so I can’t say I’m surprised here. Let’s wait to see what happens once the popping stops, and I’m listening strictly to schedule.

(This summer I’m doing some construction with lights in my ceiling, but come next winter, I am chopping a hole in the wall to figure out what’s up with that popping.)

Meanwhile, I’m emotionally shot. The grief and pain continue to burn, and I’m not sensing anything going on from the sub. I am not ruling out the possibility of it doing something that I’m missing, for the reasons I noted above, but I’m not in any position to catch anything that is only subtly manifesting.

Next on cycle begins Wednesday/Thursday. Maaaybe the boiler will be off by then?

Im interested to see what Shannon has to say about the lackluster results with UH.
Im planning to use it but it doesnt look promising from the journals Ive seen.

(03-11-2022, 04:32 PM)whome Wrote: Cycle 1 (Days 1–9)

I posted earlier about how UH needs 8 hours, and how I have popping in my wall from the radiator, which prevents me from listening overnight as I need earplugs to sleep. However, my emotional state continues to not be good, so I bought UH.

What I’ve been doing is that I start playing the ultrasonic loops on my phone as soon as I get home and know I won’t be leaving again until the next morning, and I get as much in as I can before going to bed. Sometimes there’s not much popping, and I go to bed without earplugs and let the 8 hours complete. Sometimes there’s intense popping in my wall, so I put in earplugs, which lets me sleep. Can my brain process the sub through the earplugs? I don’t know, but I consider this to be a better option than not using UH at all.

Whether or not that is Following The Directions, that’s what I can do, so that’s what I’m doing.

I’m nine days in. There’s a light buzz in my arms, but that’s all that I’m noticing for now.

I'm likely not going to post often, but I plan to post at least once per cycle. If I can figure out any other treatment for what I’m dealing with (some variation of Developmental Trauma Disorder, from what I can figure) I’ll be doing it simultaneously. Given that my emotional system is pretty thoroughly broken, I don’t have confidence that UH will work, but I’m willing to try it and see if it can make something move.

(04-26-2022, 07:14 AM)UniversalMan Wrote: How exactly do you think you are going to "absorb" the subliminal if you wear anti noise earplugs?
Maybe it would be better for you to switch to corded headphones, the one that cover the whole earlobe, that way you wont hear the poping... just saying...

(04-26-2022, 09:06 PM)whome Wrote:

(04-26-2022, 07:14 AM)UniversalMan Wrote: How exactly do you think you are going to "absorb" the subliminal if you wear anti noise earplugs?
Maybe it would be better for you to switch to corded headphones, the one that cover the whole earlobe, that way you wont hear the poping... just saying...

You think I’m not aware of the sound absorption properties of earplugs? You think I haven’t thought of headphones?

1. No, corded headphones won’t work. I’m a side sleeper, and I haven’t yet found a pair that are comfortable for me to use when sleeping that way.

2. No, corded headphones won’t work. The popping is very loud (I am not kidding!), and I need full on earplugs if I want to sleep.

3. No, corded headphones won’t work. It’s not safe to use ultrasonic tracks with headphones, so I would need to switch to an audible track, and I’m very sensitive to sound and can’t fall asleep to noise, even that of trickling streams or ocean waves.

So here are my options:

1. Don’t use the sub.

2. Use the sub. Start the loops as soon as I know I’m not leaving home any more, and get about 4 loops in before I go to bed. If there’s no popping, let the full 6 loops finish up while I don’t wear earplugs. If there is popping, wear earplugs and hope I get whatever remnants of the sub make it through the earplugs.

I’m going with option 2. Yes, I’m very aware that this isn’t a great way of doing it. Yes, I’m very aware that the earplugs block most if not all of the subliminal. But please trust that I have given a lot of thought as to my options, and if I want to use the sub at all, this is the best I can do while the popping happens. The boiler will only be on for a week or two more and so I only need to work around the popping for that much longer before it goes away until the fall.