Loud Car Guy<\/a> saga.<\/p>\n(Short version: Back in 2003, I had a neighbor who insisted on revving his extremely loud engine right outside my apartment window every weekday morning at 6:30 a.m., and he was really nasty to me in various ways when I tried to get him to stop. It eventually led to my moving out, in part because the apartment managers indicated that I was the one who was being unreasonable. On the plus side, that was when I bought a condo, which probably indirectly led to my buying this house, so I suppose it all worked out in the end.)<\/p>\n
The stress that being awoken by a revving engine causes me has diminished quite a bit since then, but it's still there.<\/p>\n
I turned on the \"brown noise\" track in the Ambiance app, and turned the volume way up, which helped but didn't entirely mask the noise; and I discovered again that under certain circumstances pressing a pillow to your ear can make an engine noise sound louder instead of quieter. But after about ten or fifteen minutes, the engine stopped or maybe I just calmed down enough to get back to sleep. Woke up again a couple hours later, still groggy but much more relaxed.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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