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[arethinn]

Ugh. Insomnia is rubbish. It's always taken me a long time to get to sleep, and I'm used to that - at least 30-45 minutes unless I'm really physically exhausted. Even a repeated cycle of insufficient sleep, such as I get, doesn't tire me out enough to actually feel like going to bed at a reasonable time. I spend the whole day at work feeling tired and fatigued and then, somehow, I get a second wind somewhere between 7 and 9 PM and can't mentally wind down enough to get to sleep before 2:30 AM (which we did last night, per usual). I distinctly remember still being awake and seeing the clock at 3:45, and waking up at 7:05, and I may have dreamed the still-awake-roll over or actually-wake-from-sleep/doze in the middle which was about 5:00, but I'm not sure.

And then the construction/remodeling work on our neighbors' house across the street started bright and early with various crashing and power-tool sounds at 8:30 AM, so barely even dozed for the next hour til they laid off it. (Mercifully, they seem to have also laid off the jackhammer and to have stopped using, for now, the circular saw or whatever it was they used a lot in the past two weeks which was not only grindy-whiny-noisy, but for some reason played a high-pitched fluting scale of about 4 notes as they wound it up and down.)

I just couldn't stop thinking and never seemed to get into a hypnogogic state (hypnopompic? can never keep straight which is into sleep and which is into waking). Blerg.

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[silussa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's a circular saw. I recognize the noise description from the many years I heard my father using it.

[arethinn]

Are there holes in the saw blade that create the tones when it spins, or something?

[silussa.livejournal.com]

No holes. I think what it is is that the speed as it comes up to speed, and decelerates when shut off, hits several sympathetic frequencies on route.

If you think about it, you may remember hearing a two-tone sound sometimes when they were cutting with it.

[arethinn]

I try not to think about it. I was trying to sleep. :P

[windtree.livejournal.com]

some blades have holes. but there's definitely the speed up/speed down tones, which if you are doing lots of small cuts can be quite frequent.