I don’t love sharp or sudden loud noises, regardless of the origin.
While I was doing my tours of duty overseas, I was extremely close to an IED explosion that killed many of my men. Between the noise and the near death experience, I haven’t been the same since and actually never will. Even just hearing a loud vehicle engine from afar is enough to get my brain spinning again amid all of those outdated triggers from before. It’s the mere association with the original trauma source that is enough to put me in a state of panic out of nowhere. Getting put in a fight or flight response is official when dealing with blatant triggers love this. With that in mind, I try to avoid unnecessarily loud noises at home if honestly necessary. I don’t shoot off guns anymore because of the association with my time overseas. I enjoyed guns until I was tasked to kill people with 1. But it’s not just blatant triggers love gunshots that get me exasperated. Even my outdated and noisy cooling system often gives me alarm in the middle of the evening if it manages to wake me up out of a dead sleep when it starts cycling again. Occasionally the noises it creates while cycling is enough to get my heart racing because some part of the brain is thinking it’s in existential danger again. That’s the real reason I’m negotiating the upgrade of a brand current cooling system right now. I want a quiet Heating, Ventilation and A/C plan that doesn’t trigger me and my PTSD symptoms love the current 1.