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How to isolate a bed from the building?
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coffeehound said:Anyone reading this will be thinking psychosis / schizophrenia / hallucinations / fantasist etc, but no; I'm as objective as anyone.
Given you can escape these problems by visiting a hotel, you might consider whether there could be an environmental cause. For example carbon monoxide poisoning can cause a number of symptoms including paranoia and hallucinations, including auditory. That would be unlikely to follow you between rentals of course but perhaps some other environmental exposure could have similar effects (unless you have a dodgy portable gas heater or something!)
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It just sounds like such a blatant situation that I think it should be relatively easy to gather evidence.Are you saying the situation is similar where you are now? Ie - the person in the flat below yours is using a device in order to harass using sound and vibrations?If so, then you 'just' need evidence, and I've suggested how you can do that. It should soon become obvious that there is no other plausible cause.It sounds hellish.If the previous flat was rented by you, I'd be inclined to call in at the new tenant and ask how things are going... If they need a witness to support any anti-soc behaviour from the flat below, you're the fellow :-)
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bpj said:coffeehound said:Anyone reading this will be thinking psychosis / schizophrenia / hallucinations / fantasist etc, but no; I'm as objective as anyone.
Given you can escape these problems by visiting a hotel, you might consider whether there could be an environmental cause. For example carbon monoxide poisoning can cause a number of symptoms including paranoia and hallucinations, including auditory. That would be unlikely to follow you between rentals of course but perhaps some other environmental exposure could have similar effects (unless you have a dodgy portable gas heater or something!)
All said with best wishes and helpful intent.
I could reel off a long list of reasons why, but suffice to say with 100.000% certainty, this was/is deliberate harrassment by a certain personality type, in very similar properties and caused by the same night time snoring, that for anyone else would be solved by a pair of 50p ear-plugs. Thank you kindly, I appreciate it2 -
Coffee, any idea what frequency these vibrations are at? When you 'feel' them, are they a few pulses per second? One pps? What?I guess, roughly, if they are inaudible, they must be below around 20Hz? A quick Google suggests that frequencies at around 7Hz can cause nausea and other issues.Although not an audible sound, these should still all be pickupable by a microphone, surely - or perhaps a different type of transducer which is attached/pressed down hard to the floor - and be displayed on Audacity or similar? I'm not suggesting it's that straight-forward, but there are a lot of audio forums out there with knowledgable folk who'd be able to advise.0
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If you are convinced it is not you and always others stop living in flats.
They do say if when things go wrong once it could just be bad luck, a second time you need to start looking closer to home, a third time it you not them.
How long have you been in this new place?
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So basically you say they are retaliating because of your snoring ?0
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Bendy_House said:Coffee, any idea what frequency these vibrations are at? When you 'feel' them, are they a few pulses per second? One pps? What?I guess, roughly, if they are inaudible, they must be below around 20Hz? A quick Google suggests that frequencies at around 7Hz can cause nausea and other issues.Although not an audible sound, these should still all be pickupable by a microphone, surely - or perhaps a different type of transducer which is attached/pressed down hard to the floor - and be displayed on Audacity or similar? I'm not suggesting it's that straight-forward, but there are a lot of audio forums out there with knowledgable folk who'd be able to advise.
As to what he was using after that, I'm not 100% sure. It could be felt like a torch beam being shone about, so was a directional beam. My best guess is ultrasonics either through a transducer, or maybe some high power sounder or speaker. It didn't feel warm so wasn't microwaves a la Havana syndrome.
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koalakoala said:So basically you say they are retaliating because of your snoring ?0
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Your choices would appear to be1) Do nothing about the folk in the flat below - but explore treatment for your snoring.2) Move to a small detached property, or at least one more suited with having an isolated layout - perhaps a side wing or annexe of a larger property3) Take action - start recording and analysing the vibes. As I said, there are forums out there with specific skills who I'm sure will guide you. You don't even have to say what it's for - just that you want to monitor and analyse (display as waveforms, transpose, record, etc) infra and ultra sounds.
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A tangential action would be, if you don't already know, to measure how loud your snoring is. You say it is at the level of 50p earplugs - but is that knowledge or assumption? Some people have no idea how loud theirs is, and snoring can be over 100 dB. Measured loudness would be useful information for seeking treatment if yours is indeed worryingly loud.
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