The Gilad-hiker Guide to the Thai-laxy - Noise (part 2)

Couldn’t sleep last night. Just couldn’t. Can some people really sleep with all that noise?

Here’s a small taste of what you might encounter:

• The Knocker - at first, when I heard it while sundown at Pai, I actually thought someone was knocking on my door. I checked and there was no one. Second time, I thought some one was playing tricks on me. But after 5 minutes, it came from all over the place. Imagine a hundred people knocking on your door, unregulary. Knockers, they’ll knock your brains out.
• The Dentist - this is actually what Wats refere to as Meditation noise. For me, it’s the loudest quiet there is. It that drill sound you hear while your dentist messes up your teeth. Imagine a million dentists drilling up your mouth. Bbrrr…
• The Cricket (up-down type) - nothing too exotic about this one, since I’ve already met it. Only there’s a slight difference in tone that doesn’t let the brain block it like it used to. It’s like the difference between the Ambulance sound and a Police car’s. One is mid-range, the other goes up and down. I really need my brain to start blocking a wider range, and it just won’t.
• The Frog - well, it’s a frog. Or to be more exact - frogs, lots and lots of frogs.
• The Construction Worker - the deadliest of ‘em all. I’ve encountered this one yesterday for the first time while staying around Ko-Samet. At sun fall, it sounded like a new massive hotel construction is taking place just next door. I was terrified, blaming myself that I missed this small detail when I took that holiday-priced shared-toilet nothing-inside bongalow but when I took a tour around it was coming from a small pond just outside the Guest House. As I was strolling the beach at night it came from all over. Banging, moaning, twitching. Bloody unbelievable.

Take’em all together, mix’em up good and you’ll have a night to remember. At somepoint, you just give up, put on the headphones and open the book.

I just miss the old bus-noise near my parent’s house at Rehavia. That noise has a relaxing soothering sound that actually helps you sleep tighter in the long mornings. Who needs nature, ah?