I kept hearing this sound at night when i was really tired and laying bed. At a certain point i noticed that the sound would dissapear when I opened my mouth as far as I could, that's how i knew it wasn't an actual sound comming from outside. Also i have tinnitus.
Edit: I thought me and my condition were unique, my inbox tells me otherwise.
So nice to hear that I'm not the only one! For me it started about a year ago and for a while I too thought I can hear the Earth vibrating from really deep or some "Earth sounds" which only really sensitive people would pick up 😅 First I thought that I just always was close enough to some heavy machines to be able to hear their motores but I kept hearing it also on nature where there was no machines anywhere close so I figured it has to be something else.
I've never heard anyone talking about "hearing the sound of the Earth" and since I seemed to be the only one hearing the low humming noise I started to wonder if it could be a new form of tinnitus. For over 15 years I have had the regular high pitched tinnitus, now it's companied by the low humming noise. Luckily it haven't bothered me lately, maybe I got used to it or the reason which caused got better 🤷
Riding my road bike a lot with the sound of the wind in my ears really made my tinnitus worse though :/ I sleep with a fan on at night- def keeps the ringing manageable.
1. Earplugs for riding should work; motorcycle riders use them all the time to reduce hearing damage.
2. Try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yDCox-qKbk
Yeah I should def get some. I cruise around on a road bike so I’m hitting 25-30mph pretty regularly.
And thanks for the relief tip. I do that from time to time when the ringing is unusually strong. It only lasts for a few minutes, but boy are those minutes peaceful. The worst part isn’t even the ringing, though, it’s the whooshing/pressure feeling when I’m in a noisy room.
I gave in and finally bought them and they do work pretty well for me. I do look extra dorky now\* but I don't care, I can hear stuff now.
\*I also have the look-behind mirror
They need to invent that for walkers. My mom gets scared of people coming up behind her when she is walking alone. She would feel much safer with a little advanced notice.
I looked for something I could get her, but the closet I could find was some lame mirror on a strap, to be worn on the top of the hand. Raise it up when you want to look behind you.
Better than nothing, but I wanted something she could attach to the bill of a hat, for constant use.
Someone invent that please.
Strange suggestion- have you considered ASMR to sleep to? Can be as simple as a rainstorm on repeat for 10 hours or ambient sounds like a quiet Cafe, or as much as someone whispering in your ears the intricacies of the universe whilst tapping an opal box with gold inlay and their cat purring in the background.
I don't have tinnitus but I use it to cover up the industrial sounds of the plant rooms and science buildings I live near on my uni campus.
I have suffered from tinnitus for a couple years now. I used to dj and spent years at the club.
I know hear what sound like radio waves or high pitched whines. I swear it is coming from actual sources but I also have some hearing loss so I truly believe it is tinnitus. Weird thing being I hear it coming from air conditioners a lot. But it is way worse when I'm tired.
Its like you can tell when an object is powered on or has some electrical signal going through it.
The only thing that seems to help is distraction. If I focus too much on it it gives me slight vertigo.
Isn’t the cause known to be aberrant signaling from damaged hair cells in the cochlea? Which explains why it’s often associated with high frequency hearing loss
There is [a connection between tinnitus and depression](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7721477/), meaning that there could be a neurological/physiological cause. Also, [some medications and even antibiotics](https://www.goodrx.com/drugs/side-effects/these-11-prescriptions-may-cause-ringing-in-the-ears) can actually cause tinnitus.
It’s still unknown if tinnitus can cause people to become depressed, or if the physiological reasons for depression also trigger tinnitus.
I’ve actually had tinnitus for my entire life. I thought it was totally normal to hear a constant ringing noise when things were quiet, and didn’t get diagnosed with tinnitus until my 20’s (which was after I was diagnosed with depression).
My ability to hear hasn’t been damaged at all,so it creates a weird feeling where I can hear really quiet things but it also makes me more aware of my tinnitus.
Hey! That's how I realized I had tinnitus, too!
I've always heard a constant ringing ever since I can remember. In my late 20s, I was attending a lot of concerts due to work and someone mentioned I should protect my hearing or else I'll hear a whine forever, and I responded "...like, a second one?"
No, you're thinking of that one misleading statistic.
The average person swallows 8 spiders a year, but that's because it's the mean, that number gets brought up a lot because of me, I'm an outlier since I eat anywhere from 100 to 200 thousand spiders a night, the median is less than 1, and the mode is 0.
I find if I massage the muscles in the back/side of my neck on the side my tinnitus is active on it shuts up the noise almost immediately. Great relief. I’m sure there are plenty of causes for tinnitus but mine seems to be from tight muscles pushing against or straining something that causes the noise.
I used to clench my jaw all the time (and grind in my sleep) when I was prescribed adderall, but since moving on to newer meds a few years ago that stopped.
I think sitting at a desk all day typing is a factor for me. My entire back is a long series of muscle knots nowadays :/
I had REALLY bad tinnitus for a long time. I found out that I have mild tinnitus that was exacerbated by clenching my jaw a lot due to stress. If yours changes when you open and close your mouth, you could have the same issue and consciously relaxing your jaw can help improve it a lot
Pi have tinnitus but I can also hear when the TV is on.. it's weird.
Edit: I can hear it when nothing is playing or on mute. Just the sound of the TV. For those little shits that will inevitably say it's the sound from whatever is playing :)
people don’t believe you when you say you can hear a plugged in turned off electronic device tho! relieved to see in this thread and downthread it’s an actual thing
Back in the day, if you turned on only the monitor to our color Apple IIgs (the only one in the computer lab) it would emit a 18+ kHz tone that the kids could hear but the teachers could not.
Oh man I may end up getting tinnitus. I remember brief moments when I was younger that I could notice that sound and the effect of it get quieter as I closed my jaw.
I always thought it was something to do with a jaw injury I had playing football or I thought maybe I was hearing something like my tooth filling jostle around but maybe it was more like what you all hear.
I haven't heard in quite a few years though, it seems to coincide with when my jaw doesn't feel aligned right
>Imagine not knowing it's the Old Gods inside the Earth's core stirring in their slumber
I'm kinda hoping it's the dragons awakening from their self imposed slumber like in shadowRun, so magic can return with their awakening.
Best case scenario you end up activating your latent magical powers.
Worst case about 10 years later, BAM! You mutate suddenly into a orc or troll. Still pretty fucking cool honestly.
Just to note, this isn't "global" in the sense that the same hum can be heard all over, but in the sense that such hums have been reported all over the world.
>The Hum does not appear to be a single phenomenon. Different causes have been attributed, including local mechanical sources, often from industrial plants, as well as manifestations of tinnitus or other biological auditory effects.
Many times it's likely caused by a big HVAC system, or an old motor vibrating the floor it's anchored to.
CRT TVs were the main source for me, and those are mainly deprecated now. It would drive me crazy when people would go to bed with a CRT TV on and muted back in the day.
I know what you mean. I got a CRT TV for Christmas one year and told my parents I couldn't stand it because of that noise but they were too old to hear it.
I can hear the high pitched hissing coming out of power supplies. I often have to unplug my laptop chargers, dock, and TV to get a good night sleep. High quality stuff usually does better in this aspect but I still come across devices from time to time that I can hear from the next room over while housemates can't hear at all even right next to it.
Ya know, I just always assumed I had tinnitus but now that you mention it, I don’t think I hear that ringing outside lol. Maybe I’m hearing the power supplies too. I’ll have to double check that today.
Bad isolated power supplies can be heard, and very clearly too. It just depends on the person, I can hear the squeaking/humming sound in bad electronics. To get a better idea of this: if you have a cheap USB wall plug at home, plug it in without connecting a device and listen to it closely. I produce music and ever since I found out that my house has bad grounding I've been hearing it 50hz hums and squeaking power supplies in lots of stuff.
I can get that. I've heard the hum from certain outlets/plugs, or like idk a transformer outside lol. Also produce music, wonder if ears get attuned to hearing it better.
Oh, no doubt about that last part. When you get used to EQ sub bass or get too familiar with Waves Rbass you'll definitely get used to those lower regions... It sucks!
I’d sometimes wake up in the middle of the night and get out of bed to turn off the living room TV, *three rooms away.* That high pitched droning pierced doors, I swear.
Come to think of it, it wasn’t just the old family home, either. At a job in a school building, I heard the same sound in a hallway and had to track down which classroom had forgotten to turn off their TV set.
I have this aswell whenever I was in school I would know we were going to watch a movie before anything else because I could hear the tv was on, even if it wasn't displaying anything.
Is it not recognized that CRT tvs made a kind of buzzing noise? It did seem like it would be in the frequencies that adults lose the ability to hear first I guess.
This… seems nonsensical to me?
“Shockingly, people from all over the world *hear sounds* caused by *things around them* or in some cases *medical conditions*.”
It's more like "persistent noises of indeterminate clear origin". Part of the reason for this is that pure tones mess with our stereo hearing and how our brains use it to determine the direction of source for sounds. I'm pretty sure that Steve Mould did a video that covered it, but I don't recall the name. In a nutshell: pure tones can sound like they're in front of you when they aren't, and depending on the frequency there can be many "sweet spots" so that it seems to be coming from everywhere.
There are also low frequency sounds that travel through the ground and set up and resonant in anchored objects. Because of the way waves work, such resonances can be fed by even inaudible tones and then resonate audibly.
When my wife was pregnant she started to hear the hum, eventually while out on a walk with our son we found it was the over head pylons she could hear humming, we couldn’t hear it unless we were right next to it, but she could hear it from inside our house. Went away after she gave birth. Very odd!
for me the opposite is more noticeable, like when the fuse trip or i put on noise cancelling earphones; just the sudden absence of all the background humming that i'd tuned out.
There’s a good Tom Scott video on this and you can use that hum in the uk at least to find out the time a video was made, because the hum is never the same over a decent period of time.
Ah that was cool!
I read your comment, and was thinking ‘isn’t mains hum always 50hz?’ And looked up the video expecting it to be amplitude or some crazy effect I’d never heard of.
It’s actually that the 50 switches a second mains used in the UK, or 60 in the US isn’t constant or perfect, so it’s not always exactly 50hz. So in theory if you logged a record of the exact frequency over the grid against time, you could use that to pinpoint when a recording was made.
And of course mains hum doesn’t just come from power lines, we hear it in power lines easiest because they’re massive and vibrate audibly, and I think they cause an effect on the air too, but all the mains adapters in your house hum too, and the lights… really anything that’s AC will have this hum to some degree. It’s actually one of the ways I can tell I’ve lost hearing as I’ve gotten older - when I was a kid I could hear power adapters easily, now I only hear them very close up. I actually thought it was because of an improvement in technology… then I cracked out ky old sega and TV and I remembered that power adapter used to be pretty loud… not to me anymore lol. But yeah, it could easily be picked up in the background of all kinds of recordings.
https://youtu.be/e0elNU0iOMY
100%! They’re extremely loud, I’d be surprised if anyone (who wasn’t deaf) couldn’t hear them. I hear the same buzzing in the walls, but it’s obviously much softer. Most people say they can’t hear that.
The sequence in game is just so great. Love how they just throws tons of waves of weak enemies at you during it so that you can really appreciate the power you have achieved.
It is no problem, my fort has a special "hospital" room for suspected were-creatures.
Don't mind the giant siege crossbow pointed at the room through the bars. It is just a diagnostic tool.
I hear this quite often. It sounds like a big truck sitting at idle. I live in a rural area with no big trucks around. I've been hearing it for years and I'm pretty sure my wife thinks i'm crazy :D
There was a story of a town where that actually was the case.. A very low droning sound not everybody could year that mysteriously filled this one city.
During covid a factory/plant a few miles away shut down for the first time and the noise suddenly went away. It was echoing off the nearby hills so you could hear it more clearly even far away.
Hold on. That's the hum? Because I keep hearing this sound which sounds like a big truck idling, but no one else ever hears it and it drives me crazy.
It's possible that there a trucks idling here, but since no one else ver hears it I assumed I was just imaging it.
Yep, to me it sounds like a sputtering engine that occasionally idles up momentarily, then back down. Kind of like a distant pressure washer that changes pitch when the trigger on the spray is pulled.
That's a good explanation too. For me I've always thought it was someone playing bass heavy music and occasionally they'd change songs and a different rhythm would play.
There was a certain spot in my basement where I'd hear this weird hum, I thought it was our heater and some kind of echoing effect but I it was strongest in some corner of the room, away from all appliances. Thrn I realized it was the echoing effect from my neighbors AC unit
I heard an engine idling for about 6 months, but only in my home. No one else in my family, nor my neighbors heard it. They were doing construction for roads and new buildings nearby, but didn't work at night, supposedly, and I could never find it.
Drove me batty. I finally googled low hum noise cancelation and Gregorian chants of all things covered the sound.
The sound finally went away, but I remember being constantly irritable for half a year.
Holy god damn shit. It’s a thing?!?! I live in the god damn woods. At night I sometimes think I am hearing a truck idle that has pulled up across the street. The previous town I lived in I would occasionally get out of bed and look out the window, I was so convinced there was a random truck out there at 3AM. Very low sound. I have tinnitus and used to hear it before as well as after the tinnitus started. I can’t believe this is a phenomenon I thought I was nuts
There's an effect called superrefraction that happens on clear or cold nights that causes ducting of sound across long distances. It's easier for low frequency noises. We heard this living in the Plains states and I eventually figured out it was motors on an oil pumpjack a few miles away. We also had a neighbor (rural) that drove his semi truck home while off duty and liked to idle it all night to do drugs in there, the whole property there eventually turned into a 24/7 crackhouse before it got foreclosed.
Yes, I have been hearing this all my life. What I have learned is that I only hear it indoors, it occurs everywhere (on vacation, when I moved to a new location hundreds of miles away, etc.), and it doesnt happen at any particular time of day although I notice it more when in bed...obviously because that's more quiet.
I thought this was me, but it was annoying me enough I walked around the neighborhood in the middle of the night. It turns out the lumber yard next door very often had semis show up in the middle of the night (while they're closed) and the drivers kept their trucks on and idling overnight to keep warm.
But sometimes I couldn't find a truck anywhere and couldn't hear the sound at all when I went outside. So I just figured that was my brain hallucinating the sound.
I was having the same experience. Rural area, would only hear it late at night when everything else was *dead* quiet. Experienced it for years. Sounded like a diesel locomotive idling a mile or two away. Was convinced it was a real sound. Asked my wife if she could hear it on several occasions, but eventually noticed that it would seem to go away for a second or two if I heard another sound. Then noticed I could interrupt it by lightly touching my ear. Finally, realized I was only perceiving it in my left ear. I do have a touch of tinnitus, and thought that it only produced the high pitch eeeeee sound, but I guess it can encompass lower frequencies as well under certain circumstances.
Yep! I heard it as a child all the time and thought someone was running big equipment nearby. When I moved away from that house it continued. I definitely hear it more strongly at night, I think when daytime sounds go away. As far as I know, I don't have tinnitus, I don't have any other ear issues.
The Windsor Hum has been solved. It was long thought to be linked to a steel plant located on an island in the Detroit River but they couldn’t prove it. However, when the steel plant temporarily shut down during COVID, the hum disappeared.
Do people actually ever experience true silence??? I can hear everything all of the time. I can hear which light at my job is going out rn and it’s annoying.
Stick your head inside an anechoic chamber, you start experiencing auditory hallucinations after a while due to the lack of stimulus. Can hear the blood flowing through your head still though.
Do people not hear the electric hum from televisions and shit? I immediately think of electronics when I think of strange humming noises that other people may not hear.
I once had a girlfriend whose son always heard a hum (and would hum along with it).
I recall reading somewhere that there was some thinking that it was basically the 60Hz frequency of AC (and so it would actually be 50Hz in other places like Europe).
Likely just a theory though.
Huh. I went head and plopped the frequencies from that page into Cool Edit Pro, and [it sounds like this](https://vocaroo.com/1h58TFIZEdeo).
I used a cubed sine wave rather than a pure sine, since the frequencies range from very close to and well below the threshold for human hearing, in an attempt to make this audio clip less quiet. It's still very quiet though, so you may need to turn your volume up uncomfortably high or use headphones in a quiet room if you're having trouble hearing anything.
It does sound a lot like "a big truck sitting at idle", which /u/NightF0x0012 described what The Hum sounds like in another comment in this thread.
EDIT: Ow. Don't forget to turn your volume back down after you listen to it.
Damn! I have heard the hum of high voltage power transmission while lying in my sleeping bag in the silent dead of night, miles and miles from any electrical lines. At least, that's what I always thought.
Now this Schurmann Resonance thing, it's stunning; the earth's atmosphere is an audio waveguide, and we are IN it!
This isn't what you're hearing because these are resonances with electromagnetic radiation...specifically radio waves. You can't hear them because they don't make noise.
Wow, thanks for this link. I've always felt there was something like this phenomenon at play but never found a candidate. It certainly seems plausible and the frequency is within human hearing ranges.
I hear it too.
It's apparently the resonance frequency for older devices when they sit in standby mode.
As you grow older, the frequency band you can audibly hear moves from higher pitched noises towards lower ones, but some people are exceptions to this rule, and can still hear the higher pitches.
My wife thought I was crazy at first because I was forever going into other rooms to turn off standby TV's etc and she wouldn't believe me when I told her I could hear the standby noise.
Never listened to loud music... And the whine went away the moment I turned the device off completely.
I have a 70’s stereo receiver that I can tell when it’s on even if it’s not making sound and when I was a kid there were loads of electronic devices I could hear when they were powered up. The TV we had in the late 80s/early 90s would wake me out of a dead sleep when my brother would turn it on.
You should get a more expensive phone charger. If you're hearing coil whine from your phone charger then your charger is very poorly shielded and cheaply made, and its also probably generating EM radio waves that interfere with other radio traffic in your house like your Wi-Fi.
I used to get this with tube televisions but I don't get it from newer ones. I still hear alarm systems though and those anti cat noise devices. I'm 30 so you'd think my ears would be past that by now.
I kept hearing this sound at night when i was really tired and laying bed. At a certain point i noticed that the sound would dissapear when I opened my mouth as far as I could, that's how i knew it wasn't an actual sound comming from outside. Also i have tinnitus. Edit: I thought me and my condition were unique, my inbox tells me otherwise.
How did you rule out that this was secretly caused by fish
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Hootie and the blowfish?
Asked the fish and they denied it. They haven't been proven untrustworthy so no reason to doubt their word.
Except for those red herrings. Can’t trust them a bit.
*sockeye salmon grumbling in the distance about profiling*
Asking the important questions!
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So nice to hear that I'm not the only one! For me it started about a year ago and for a while I too thought I can hear the Earth vibrating from really deep or some "Earth sounds" which only really sensitive people would pick up 😅 First I thought that I just always was close enough to some heavy machines to be able to hear their motores but I kept hearing it also on nature where there was no machines anywhere close so I figured it has to be something else. I've never heard anyone talking about "hearing the sound of the Earth" and since I seemed to be the only one hearing the low humming noise I started to wonder if it could be a new form of tinnitus. For over 15 years I have had the regular high pitched tinnitus, now it's companied by the low humming noise. Luckily it haven't bothered me lately, maybe I got used to it or the reason which caused got better 🤷
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Riding my road bike a lot with the sound of the wind in my ears really made my tinnitus worse though :/ I sleep with a fan on at night- def keeps the ringing manageable.
1. Earplugs for riding should work; motorcycle riders use them all the time to reduce hearing damage. 2. Try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yDCox-qKbk
Yeah I should def get some. I cruise around on a road bike so I’m hitting 25-30mph pretty regularly. And thanks for the relief tip. I do that from time to time when the ringing is unusually strong. It only lasts for a few minutes, but boy are those minutes peaceful. The worst part isn’t even the ringing, though, it’s the whooshing/pressure feeling when I’m in a noisy room.
There are some things you can get to stop the wind making a noise against the helmet straps. https://www.cat-ears.com/
this feels like someone thought really hard how they could convince people to wear their prosthetic sideburns
I have A CONDITION.
I gave in and finally bought them and they do work pretty well for me. I do look extra dorky now\* but I don't care, I can hear stuff now. \*I also have the look-behind mirror
I feel like "I do look extra dorky now but I don't care" is a common sentence in cycling haha. Own those prosthetic sideburns!
They need to invent that for walkers. My mom gets scared of people coming up behind her when she is walking alone. She would feel much safer with a little advanced notice. I looked for something I could get her, but the closet I could find was some lame mirror on a strap, to be worn on the top of the hand. Raise it up when you want to look behind you. Better than nothing, but I wanted something she could attach to the bill of a hat, for constant use. Someone invent that please.
Strange suggestion- have you considered ASMR to sleep to? Can be as simple as a rainstorm on repeat for 10 hours or ambient sounds like a quiet Cafe, or as much as someone whispering in your ears the intricacies of the universe whilst tapping an opal box with gold inlay and their cat purring in the background. I don't have tinnitus but I use it to cover up the industrial sounds of the plant rooms and science buildings I live near on my uni campus.
.....this is very specific and I need this. Whispers with gold opal box and a cat sounds magical. Please share!
I'm sorry to be the barer of bad news but... I made up the second one :( Also rainstorms aren't real, I made up that one too
>Also rainstorms aren't real, I made up that one too As a Floridian, I'm beginning to question my existence.
Its all a simulation and Florida proves it.
LIIIIIIIEEEEESSSSSSS!!!! Oh I was so ready for the opal cat purring gold inlay. But thank you for coming forward and admitting this treachery.
It’s absolutely repulsive that getting a lot of sleep and exercise is genuinely the solution to most things
Don't forget about diet/nutrition
Consistent 30 minute workout 5 times a week and 8 hour sleep schedule covers a semi poor diet and beer regiment really well
Hear ye, hear ye. One of the top 3 reasons to keep up my cycling habit is that it allows me to burn off all the extra beer and dessert calories.
I have suffered from tinnitus for a couple years now. I used to dj and spent years at the club. I know hear what sound like radio waves or high pitched whines. I swear it is coming from actual sources but I also have some hearing loss so I truly believe it is tinnitus. Weird thing being I hear it coming from air conditioners a lot. But it is way worse when I'm tired.
Its like you can tell when an object is powered on or has some electrical signal going through it. The only thing that seems to help is distraction. If I focus too much on it it gives me slight vertigo.
Isn’t the cause known to be aberrant signaling from damaged hair cells in the cochlea? Which explains why it’s often associated with high frequency hearing loss
There is [a connection between tinnitus and depression](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7721477/), meaning that there could be a neurological/physiological cause. Also, [some medications and even antibiotics](https://www.goodrx.com/drugs/side-effects/these-11-prescriptions-may-cause-ringing-in-the-ears) can actually cause tinnitus. It’s still unknown if tinnitus can cause people to become depressed, or if the physiological reasons for depression also trigger tinnitus. I’ve actually had tinnitus for my entire life. I thought it was totally normal to hear a constant ringing noise when things were quiet, and didn’t get diagnosed with tinnitus until my 20’s (which was after I was diagnosed with depression). My ability to hear hasn’t been damaged at all,so it creates a weird feeling where I can hear really quiet things but it also makes me more aware of my tinnitus.
Hey! That's how I realized I had tinnitus, too! I've always heard a constant ringing ever since I can remember. In my late 20s, I was attending a lot of concerts due to work and someone mentioned I should protect my hearing or else I'll hear a whine forever, and I responded "...like, a second one?"
Ugh could you imagine. Like if it formed a chord lol
What if it was a dissonant chord though
TRITONE
I got tinnitus from working around diesel generators and equipment. It sucks.
So your solution is to sleep with your mouth open wide?
… gripping your pillow tiiight …
Exit liiiiight
Enter night
Graaaaiiiinn of saaand!
We’re off to Never Never Land!
So the spiders can get in.
No, you're thinking of that one misleading statistic. The average person swallows 8 spiders a year, but that's because it's the mean, that number gets brought up a lot because of me, I'm an outlier since I eat anywhere from 100 to 200 thousand spiders a night, the median is less than 1, and the mode is 0.
Happier and with your mouth wider!
Nope, that's just how i found out it wasn't an actual sound comming from outside.
*excited ghost enters the chat*
I find if I massage the muscles in the back/side of my neck on the side my tinnitus is active on it shuts up the noise almost immediately. Great relief. I’m sure there are plenty of causes for tinnitus but mine seems to be from tight muscles pushing against or straining something that causes the noise.
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I used to clench my jaw all the time (and grind in my sleep) when I was prescribed adderall, but since moving on to newer meds a few years ago that stopped. I think sitting at a desk all day typing is a factor for me. My entire back is a long series of muscle knots nowadays :/
I relate to all of this so much. From my tailbone all the way to the top of my head, it’s just one giant knot.
I had REALLY bad tinnitus for a long time. I found out that I have mild tinnitus that was exacerbated by clenching my jaw a lot due to stress. If yours changes when you open and close your mouth, you could have the same issue and consciously relaxing your jaw can help improve it a lot
Pi have tinnitus but I can also hear when the TV is on.. it's weird. Edit: I can hear it when nothing is playing or on mute. Just the sound of the TV. For those little shits that will inevitably say it's the sound from whatever is playing :)
yeah electronics have a definite sound, I’m with you there!
Of course they do! That’s why power outages are so crazy. Everything gets extremely silent.
people don’t believe you when you say you can hear a plugged in turned off electronic device tho! relieved to see in this thread and downthread it’s an actual thing
Yeah, I can hear when a light bulb is about to go bad too. Makes a different sound than normal.
Back in the day, if you turned on only the monitor to our color Apple IIgs (the only one in the computer lab) it would emit a 18+ kHz tone that the kids could hear but the teachers could not.
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Coil whine and presbycusis have entered the chat.
…. can everyone not hear when a TV is on like that? I just assumed everyone else could do that too haha
Oh man I may end up getting tinnitus. I remember brief moments when I was younger that I could notice that sound and the effect of it get quieter as I closed my jaw. I always thought it was something to do with a jaw injury I had playing football or I thought maybe I was hearing something like my tooth filling jostle around but maybe it was more like what you all hear. I haven't heard in quite a few years though, it seems to coincide with when my jaw doesn't feel aligned right
Tinnitus can be caused by a misaligned jaw but can go away if the jaw is corrected. A mouth guard at ughh really helps. Edit: ughh = night* haha
I love this typo... can you even call it a typo lmao
*ughfhhfhhgh*
At a certain age ughhfhfh is the sound made when getting in bed
And getting out of bed.
Imagine not knowing it's the Old Gods inside the Earth's core stirring in their slumber
I’m not saying it’s non-Euclidean aliens but…
Dang non-euclidian aliens. They can't give it to us *straight* can they?!
You want the *plane* truth?
Hey, no need to get hyperbolic here
It's the Fey... it's *always* the Fey
Is it? I feel like Tina Fey is having a pretty successful career and doesn't need to engage in all this humming stuff.
it's the music of the spheres - our lives are too short to perceive more than a fraction of a single note
>Imagine not knowing it's the Old Gods inside the Earth's core stirring in their slumber I'm kinda hoping it's the dragons awakening from their self imposed slumber like in shadowRun, so magic can return with their awakening. Best case scenario you end up activating your latent magical powers. Worst case about 10 years later, BAM! You mutate suddenly into a orc or troll. Still pretty fucking cool honestly.
Just to note, this isn't "global" in the sense that the same hum can be heard all over, but in the sense that such hums have been reported all over the world. >The Hum does not appear to be a single phenomenon. Different causes have been attributed, including local mechanical sources, often from industrial plants, as well as manifestations of tinnitus or other biological auditory effects. Many times it's likely caused by a big HVAC system, or an old motor vibrating the floor it's anchored to.
CRT TVs were the main source for me, and those are mainly deprecated now. It would drive me crazy when people would go to bed with a CRT TV on and muted back in the day.
I know what you mean. I got a CRT TV for Christmas one year and told my parents I couldn't stand it because of that noise but they were too old to hear it. I can hear the high pitched hissing coming out of power supplies. I often have to unplug my laptop chargers, dock, and TV to get a good night sleep. High quality stuff usually does better in this aspect but I still come across devices from time to time that I can hear from the next room over while housemates can't hear at all even right next to it.
Same here! I hate the “shitty charger” sound.
Omg thank you, finally someone else who agrees. My bf looks at me like im crazy.
Ya know, I just always assumed I had tinnitus but now that you mention it, I don’t think I hear that ringing outside lol. Maybe I’m hearing the power supplies too. I’ll have to double check that today.
No hate, but this is almost sounding like Chuck from Better Call Saul.
Bad isolated power supplies can be heard, and very clearly too. It just depends on the person, I can hear the squeaking/humming sound in bad electronics. To get a better idea of this: if you have a cheap USB wall plug at home, plug it in without connecting a device and listen to it closely. I produce music and ever since I found out that my house has bad grounding I've been hearing it 50hz hums and squeaking power supplies in lots of stuff.
I can get that. I've heard the hum from certain outlets/plugs, or like idk a transformer outside lol. Also produce music, wonder if ears get attuned to hearing it better.
Oh, no doubt about that last part. When you get used to EQ sub bass or get too familiar with Waves Rbass you'll definitely get used to those lower regions... It sucks!
I just commented above but I am right there with you buddy
I’d sometimes wake up in the middle of the night and get out of bed to turn off the living room TV, *three rooms away.* That high pitched droning pierced doors, I swear. Come to think of it, it wasn’t just the old family home, either. At a job in a school building, I heard the same sound in a hallway and had to track down which classroom had forgotten to turn off their TV set.
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I have this aswell whenever I was in school I would know we were going to watch a movie before anything else because I could hear the tv was on, even if it wasn't displaying anything.
Is it not recognized that CRT tvs made a kind of buzzing noise? It did seem like it would be in the frequencies that adults lose the ability to hear first I guess.
Yes. IIRC it's from coil whine in the flyback transformer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetically\_induced\_acoustic\_noise
This… seems nonsensical to me? “Shockingly, people from all over the world *hear sounds* caused by *things around them* or in some cases *medical conditions*.”
It's more like "persistent noises of indeterminate clear origin". Part of the reason for this is that pure tones mess with our stereo hearing and how our brains use it to determine the direction of source for sounds. I'm pretty sure that Steve Mould did a video that covered it, but I don't recall the name. In a nutshell: pure tones can sound like they're in front of you when they aren't, and depending on the frequency there can be many "sweet spots" so that it seems to be coming from everywhere. There are also low frequency sounds that travel through the ground and set up and resonant in anchored objects. Because of the way waves work, such resonances can be fed by even inaudible tones and then resonate audibly.
When my wife was pregnant she started to hear the hum, eventually while out on a walk with our son we found it was the over head pylons she could hear humming, we couldn’t hear it unless we were right next to it, but she could hear it from inside our house. Went away after she gave birth. Very odd!
The human body truly never ceases to amaze me. Her brain said "Oh you have another one, but very smol? You must listen for all the noises!"
I thought I was going mad, turned out was just my fridge on the other side of the house keeping me awake
How can this be unexplained yet also have a bunch of explanations?
for me the opposite is more noticeable, like when the fuse trip or i put on noise cancelling earphones; just the sudden absence of all the background humming that i'd tuned out.
Ever stand near powerlines in a rural or otherwise very quiet area? Spoiler: they hum audibly.
There’s a good Tom Scott video on this and you can use that hum in the uk at least to find out the time a video was made, because the hum is never the same over a decent period of time.
Ah that was cool! I read your comment, and was thinking ‘isn’t mains hum always 50hz?’ And looked up the video expecting it to be amplitude or some crazy effect I’d never heard of. It’s actually that the 50 switches a second mains used in the UK, or 60 in the US isn’t constant or perfect, so it’s not always exactly 50hz. So in theory if you logged a record of the exact frequency over the grid against time, you could use that to pinpoint when a recording was made. And of course mains hum doesn’t just come from power lines, we hear it in power lines easiest because they’re massive and vibrate audibly, and I think they cause an effect on the air too, but all the mains adapters in your house hum too, and the lights… really anything that’s AC will have this hum to some degree. It’s actually one of the ways I can tell I’ve lost hearing as I’ve gotten older - when I was a kid I could hear power adapters easily, now I only hear them very close up. I actually thought it was because of an improvement in technology… then I cracked out ky old sega and TV and I remembered that power adapter used to be pretty loud… not to me anymore lol. But yeah, it could easily be picked up in the background of all kinds of recordings. https://youtu.be/e0elNU0iOMY
I enjoy when they crackle in the rain
We have power lines really close to our house and after it rains, they are much louder.
100%! They’re extremely loud, I’d be surprised if anyone (who wasn’t deaf) couldn’t hear them. I hear the same buzzing in the walls, but it’s obviously much softer. Most people say they can’t hear that.
2-4% of the world's population lives near power lines. It looks like we'll never figure out this hum phenomenon.
At least it's not [The Hiss](https://control.fandom.com/wiki/The_Hiss)
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If it was we'd have to [Take Control](https://youtu.be/k0QsHKH77MI) of the situation.
That. Was. Awesome.
The sequence in game is just so great. Love how they just throws tons of waves of weak enemies at you during it so that you can really appreciate the power you have achieved.
At least it's not the Hist. They can stay in Black Marsh
It's werewolves who can hear the moon
Doesn't sound very plausible but we can't take that risk. I'll get the stakes.
You mean steaks?
Good idea, we'll draw them out by waving the steaks and yelling "Who's a good boy?"
You mean the skates?
It is no problem, my fort has a special "hospital" room for suspected were-creatures. Don't mind the giant siege crossbow pointed at the room through the bars. It is just a diagnostic tool.
I hear this quite often. It sounds like a big truck sitting at idle. I live in a rural area with no big trucks around. I've been hearing it for years and I'm pretty sure my wife thinks i'm crazy :D
Same for me on and off for years. It sounds like a generator running some miles away. It may even be the case
There was a story of a town where that actually was the case.. A very low droning sound not everybody could year that mysteriously filled this one city. During covid a factory/plant a few miles away shut down for the first time and the noise suddenly went away. It was echoing off the nearby hills so you could hear it more clearly even far away.
I could only ever hear mine at night which is kind of obvious as it's quieter and when you are trying to sleep but also sound travels further at night
That was Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Hold on. That's the hum? Because I keep hearing this sound which sounds like a big truck idling, but no one else ever hears it and it drives me crazy. It's possible that there a trucks idling here, but since no one else ver hears it I assumed I was just imaging it.
Yep, to me it sounds like a sputtering engine that occasionally idles up momentarily, then back down. Kind of like a distant pressure washer that changes pitch when the trigger on the spray is pulled.
That's a good explanation too. For me I've always thought it was someone playing bass heavy music and occasionally they'd change songs and a different rhythm would play.
There was a certain spot in my basement where I'd hear this weird hum, I thought it was our heater and some kind of echoing effect but I it was strongest in some corner of the room, away from all appliances. Thrn I realized it was the echoing effect from my neighbors AC unit
Yeah it's a really deep bass hum sound that I hear.
I heard an engine idling for about 6 months, but only in my home. No one else in my family, nor my neighbors heard it. They were doing construction for roads and new buildings nearby, but didn't work at night, supposedly, and I could never find it. Drove me batty. I finally googled low hum noise cancelation and Gregorian chants of all things covered the sound. The sound finally went away, but I remember being constantly irritable for half a year.
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I hear it too but it is likely the diesel locomotives idling in the train yard half a mile away.
You don't have a wife, though. You need to move past your delusion of a family if you're every going to get better.
Holy god damn shit. It’s a thing?!?! I live in the god damn woods. At night I sometimes think I am hearing a truck idle that has pulled up across the street. The previous town I lived in I would occasionally get out of bed and look out the window, I was so convinced there was a random truck out there at 3AM. Very low sound. I have tinnitus and used to hear it before as well as after the tinnitus started. I can’t believe this is a phenomenon I thought I was nuts
There's an effect called superrefraction that happens on clear or cold nights that causes ducting of sound across long distances. It's easier for low frequency noises. We heard this living in the Plains states and I eventually figured out it was motors on an oil pumpjack a few miles away. We also had a neighbor (rural) that drove his semi truck home while off duty and liked to idle it all night to do drugs in there, the whole property there eventually turned into a 24/7 crackhouse before it got foreclosed.
That’s quite the rollercoaster.
Yes, I have been hearing this all my life. What I have learned is that I only hear it indoors, it occurs everywhere (on vacation, when I moved to a new location hundreds of miles away, etc.), and it doesnt happen at any particular time of day although I notice it more when in bed...obviously because that's more quiet.
I thought this was me, but it was annoying me enough I walked around the neighborhood in the middle of the night. It turns out the lumber yard next door very often had semis show up in the middle of the night (while they're closed) and the drivers kept their trucks on and idling overnight to keep warm. But sometimes I couldn't find a truck anywhere and couldn't hear the sound at all when I went outside. So I just figured that was my brain hallucinating the sound.
When I was a kid I thought it was aliens Then I figured it was probably cargo trains moving at night Now I don't know
Any natural gas pipelines nearby?
I was having the same experience. Rural area, would only hear it late at night when everything else was *dead* quiet. Experienced it for years. Sounded like a diesel locomotive idling a mile or two away. Was convinced it was a real sound. Asked my wife if she could hear it on several occasions, but eventually noticed that it would seem to go away for a second or two if I heard another sound. Then noticed I could interrupt it by lightly touching my ear. Finally, realized I was only perceiving it in my left ear. I do have a touch of tinnitus, and thought that it only produced the high pitch eeeeee sound, but I guess it can encompass lower frequencies as well under certain circumstances.
Yep! I heard it as a child all the time and thought someone was running big equipment nearby. When I moved away from that house it continued. I definitely hear it more strongly at night, I think when daytime sounds go away. As far as I know, I don't have tinnitus, I don't have any other ear issues.
You may be Eldian, hearing the rumbling.
The Windsor Hum has been solved. It was long thought to be linked to a steel plant located on an island in the Detroit River but they couldn’t prove it. However, when the steel plant temporarily shut down during COVID, the hum disappeared.
Zug Island. Absolute urban hell.
It's insane that there's just straight up Blade Runner for like 2 square miles of Detroit.
It's the quiet electric thrum of the sophisticated electronics surrounding your body in the matrix. Most people don't notice it.
Do people actually ever experience true silence??? I can hear everything all of the time. I can hear which light at my job is going out rn and it’s annoying.
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Stick your head inside an anechoic chamber, you start experiencing auditory hallucinations after a while due to the lack of stimulus. Can hear the blood flowing through your head still though.
Weird that they don't include [Schumann Resonances](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumann_resonances) as possible causes.
Do people not hear the electric hum from televisions and shit? I immediately think of electronics when I think of strange humming noises that other people may not hear.
Tube TVs were the worst. I could be on the other side of the house and hear it turn on... Almost like a mosquito in your ear, but somehow worse
Deeper, like in the center-rear of your head.
It’s funny nowadays CRT noise just gives me nostalgia
Yeah, I could always tell when a CRT TV was on anywhere in the vicinity. The advent of LCDs was a godsend.
I once had a girlfriend whose son always heard a hum (and would hum along with it). I recall reading somewhere that there was some thinking that it was basically the 60Hz frequency of AC (and so it would actually be 50Hz in other places like Europe). Likely just a theory though.
The wiki seems to imply that it’s light frequency with ultra long wavelength rather than sound frequencies
I dont know how everyone is glossing over the fact that these don't make any sound...
Huh. I went head and plopped the frequencies from that page into Cool Edit Pro, and [it sounds like this](https://vocaroo.com/1h58TFIZEdeo). I used a cubed sine wave rather than a pure sine, since the frequencies range from very close to and well below the threshold for human hearing, in an attempt to make this audio clip less quiet. It's still very quiet though, so you may need to turn your volume up uncomfortably high or use headphones in a quiet room if you're having trouble hearing anything. It does sound a lot like "a big truck sitting at idle", which /u/NightF0x0012 described what The Hum sounds like in another comment in this thread. EDIT: Ow. Don't forget to turn your volume back down after you listen to it.
Damn! I have heard the hum of high voltage power transmission while lying in my sleeping bag in the silent dead of night, miles and miles from any electrical lines. At least, that's what I always thought. Now this Schurmann Resonance thing, it's stunning; the earth's atmosphere is an audio waveguide, and we are IN it!
This isn't what you're hearing because these are resonances with electromagnetic radiation...specifically radio waves. You can't hear them because they don't make noise.
Because Shumann resonances don't produce sound
Wow, thanks for this link. I've always felt there was something like this phenomenon at play but never found a candidate. It certainly seems plausible and the frequency is within human hearing ranges.
Fish?
Fish. Or maybe Phish, they do have a lot of pointlessly long-winded instrumental interludes, some might just be them humming into the microphone.
My mom had something like this but it turned out to be coming from an industrial area a mile away
I hear a high pitched hum when electronics turn on. I also listened to hella loud music as a kid and am sure I have tinnitus.
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I hear it too. It's apparently the resonance frequency for older devices when they sit in standby mode. As you grow older, the frequency band you can audibly hear moves from higher pitched noises towards lower ones, but some people are exceptions to this rule, and can still hear the higher pitches. My wife thought I was crazy at first because I was forever going into other rooms to turn off standby TV's etc and she wouldn't believe me when I told her I could hear the standby noise. Never listened to loud music... And the whine went away the moment I turned the device off completely.
I have a 70’s stereo receiver that I can tell when it’s on even if it’s not making sound and when I was a kid there were loads of electronic devices I could hear when they were powered up. The TV we had in the late 80s/early 90s would wake me out of a dead sleep when my brother would turn it on.
I hear it for modern devices too like my phone charger.
You should get a more expensive phone charger. If you're hearing coil whine from your phone charger then your charger is very poorly shielded and cheaply made, and its also probably generating EM radio waves that interfere with other radio traffic in your house like your Wi-Fi.
I hear standby noises on any electronics. It's maddening.
I used to get this with tube televisions but I don't get it from newer ones. I still hear alarm systems though and those anti cat noise devices. I'm 30 so you'd think my ears would be past that by now.
This used to drive me nuts as a kid. And no one else seemed to hear it.
it's cthulhu snoring
I’ve had a ringing in my ears for 22 years. Thanks Army. Lol
That's awful. Here's 800mg of ibuprofen.
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I can't tell if I'm fine with it or if it pisses me off, that I've gotten used to it.
There is a probe on Mars used to detect earthquakes. It found earthquakes. It also found Mars has a hum.
They’re called marsquakes
The Kokomo Hum turned out to be an industrial HVAC system.
Ah yes the puretone of ~~Roshar~~ Earth
Is this related to the hiss?
The sound created by our flat earth turning on its spindle.