AsraArdwulfLeberecht said:
Do you have any strategies for SS who live with 2+ noisy roommates who pace around like rapid sheep in a 2 room apartment?
I can't focus in my meditations because they always enter the room I'm in. I move to another room, they come there. We argue because of this.
They have such a personality that I can't stand them. And they're the same, fueling one another. I always have the urge to murder them know-it-all's but I don't afford legal trouble.
We're different to the point we can't cooperate in anything. They're literally annoying or cringe to watch or hear let alone interact with, that I so long for the day when the enemy's influence perishes and these examples of inverse eugenics dissappear.
I remember back in the day, living with bat-shit video gamers, and don't get me wrong, I'm a gamer and a game-lover myself (Nintendo), but I'm not bat-shit crazy.
Now given your situation, since we're dealing with toxic people and by what you said, it has gotten confrontational (it's now entered "red/danger zone"), I'm gonna give this disclaimer:
none of my answers are "fool proof" or to be over relied on. They run just as much as risks as benefits. I say this because as with toxic situations, I don't wanna give out advise that'll end up with someone getting hurt or worse, dead.
Anyways first I would ask your landlord if you can transfer to perhaps another unit, if you can afford the transfer fee, then it's worth it, for it's not worth $300 or $1,000 to have to put up with disrespectful roommates.
However you can also run the risk of being paired with roommates that are equally, if not, worse (as had happened to me).
If transferring isn't possible, here's what I did when I was living with my bat-shit gamer roommates.
I would look for certain times when they're not in their "red zone" so-to-speak. There were certain times when my roommates weren't bat shit, and I could study peacefully. I would do your meditations then.
While I have confronted my roommates over their Fortnite raging and etc., they weren't defensive or combative, they gave the "I'm sorry, we'll try to be quiet next time", but it was all talk and no actions.
I would wear good ear plugs or noise-cancelling headphones, or both. Unfortunately, it won't "drown them out" completely, but depending on the settings you program your headphones, could muffle them to a point where they're faint enough and "barely exist".
The risk there, is that you may end up causing damage to your ears with excessive use of noise-cancelling headphones. Even I myself, have to take it off my head to allow my "ears to breathe" if that makes sense.
I remember living with an asshole roommate who lost his shit when I simply asked him some questions, not intrusive personal life questions, but pet-peeve questions to avoid trouble in the future.
AsraArdwulfLeberecht said:
They have such a personality that I can't stand them. And they're the same, fueling one another. I always have the urge to murder them know-it-all's but I don't afford legal trouble.
We're different to the point we can't cooperate in anything. They're literally annoying or cringe to watch or hear let alone interact with, that I so long for the day when the enemy's influence perishes and these examples of inverse eugenics dissappear.
As the other poster said, stay vigilant, these seem like some aggressive and combative roommates you're putting up with.
When I transferred from the unit with my gamer roommates, I ended up with an even-worse roommate to the levels you described. I asked him a simple question, guy lost his shit, threw a full-on-tantrum thought I was trying to pry into his personal life. I just asked him about his pet peeves, you know.....to AVOID issues in the future, and apparently that triggered him really bad. He continued to violently slam things and slam doors around me...yeah.
So I'm even more concerned for your safety there.
Get a recording device on-hand if/when things become heated, normally if you can get legal evidence against them, hopefully that'll force your landlord to give them the boot.
I'd be more concerned less about the meditation, and finding ways to de-escalate. Being in these types of situation that gets your adrenaline up can tempt you to indeed, do things that you'll end-up legally regreting.
For good de-escalation and self-defense, I HEAVILY recommend the website
No Nonsense Self-Defense. I almost consider it the "JoS of the Self-Defense world", namely in that the site's author exposes REAL hardcore Truths about self-defense FOR FREE, and gives you knowledge that can save you in such a situation, FOR FREE. No other self-defense guru has EVER exposed the "subconscious phsycology" of dealing with violent attacks.
His amount of research, knowledge and experience trumps all other "gurus" just like our HPs trumps all that of other so-called "Satanic LHP groups".
He's not in for the money, doesn't try to scam you into buying some "product" for some stickers and decals to put on your gym bag or whatever, and doesn't waste his time with catchy slogans, catchy graphics and false promises of becoming the next Achilles. He tells it for how it is.
Anyways, good luck! Just know that this will pass. Back when I lived with both sets of roommates, as well as abusive parents, I thought it "would never end", but it did.
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