Anyone have their own name for grade crossing signals?
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 9:33 am
"Mee-Mool" lights!
As a 5-year-old, maybe younger, I perceived a "sound" from the flashing grade crossing signalights.
I did not hear any actual sound, but noticed an "aural effect" likely perceived in thearing part of the brain.
So, I named railroad crossing signals "Mee-Mool" lights after the "sound" I heard and have called them that ever since.
My family and friends all know the meaning!
Athe Walnut Street grade crossing near my grandmother's house in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, the Mee-mool light's left lamp was a little brighter, which I perceived as "Mee".
The right lamp, aimed a little more right, did not appear as bright - "Mool"
So when they operated, I perceived "Mee, Mool, Mee, Mool, Mee, Mool . . ."
The same still occurs to this day.
For example: If I see a flashing yellow light on a dark road, I perceive a white noise like: "ahhhhhh"..... [OFF] ....."ahhhhhh"................"ahhhhhh" . . . as it lights.
We all probably perceive this but merely ignore it - as I do the voices in my head.
(I should not make too much fun. A friend claims to hear voices telling him to not be gay and to believe the Christian fairytale.
He actually suspected that a church put speakers outside his house.
In EMS I have had similar patients.)
As a 5-year-old, maybe younger, I perceived a "sound" from the flashing grade crossing signalights.
I did not hear any actual sound, but noticed an "aural effect" likely perceived in thearing part of the brain.
So, I named railroad crossing signals "Mee-Mool" lights after the "sound" I heard and have called them that ever since.
My family and friends all know the meaning!
Athe Walnut Street grade crossing near my grandmother's house in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, the Mee-mool light's left lamp was a little brighter, which I perceived as "Mee".
The right lamp, aimed a little more right, did not appear as bright - "Mool"
So when they operated, I perceived "Mee, Mool, Mee, Mool, Mee, Mool . . ."
The same still occurs to this day.
For example: If I see a flashing yellow light on a dark road, I perceive a white noise like: "ahhhhhh"..... [OFF] ....."ahhhhhh"................"ahhhhhh" . . . as it lights.
We all probably perceive this but merely ignore it - as I do the voices in my head.
(I should not make too much fun. A friend claims to hear voices telling him to not be gay and to believe the Christian fairytale.
He actually suspected that a church put speakers outside his house.
In EMS I have had similar patients.)
*RUNS AWAY*
