Awakened and terrified out of your wits by a ringing phone? Nevermore, with the “NON-FRIGHTENING RINGTONE.”
You are sleeping soundly in a very quiet room.
All of a sudden, a sudden noise shocks you awake! Your heart thumps wildly. Your head is a ball of confusion. A near heart-attack for a wrong number.
Ringtones don’t scare everybody. But they do scare some of us, especially old people, light sleepers, and people with PTSD who are sensitive to loud, abrupt noises.
And me! They often terrify me. My pulse rate goes through the roof. Which scares me even more.
It doesn’t matter if the phone is a cell phone or a land line. It doesn’t matter if the ringtone is a song or a beep or a bell.
A ringtone suddenly going off in a quiet room scares the living daylights out of many of us.
Many companies supposedly sell “gentle ringtones,”
But they don’t sound very “gentle” to me.
And they still start up suddenly, abruptly, frighteningly.
Here is my suggestion:
1. RINGTONES THAT DON’T START SUDDENLY, ABRUPTLY.
2. Ringtones that START BELOW THE RANGE OF HUMAN HEARING, and then GRADUALLY INCREASE IN VOLUME.
3. Ringtones made out of a sound that is very SOFT AND SOOTHING, like gentle waves, a trickling brook, white noise, etc.
CUSTOMERS
Old People
Light Sleepers
People with PTSD, who are very sensitive to loud, abrupt noises
Getting rid of the suddenness of ringtones will probably save lives by keeping people’s pulse rate manageable.
Ted Silar 