You ever hear sounds that aren't there?!

[Trekker4747]

This morning I was woken up by a lot of police sirens and a neighbor's security alarm going off. Now those sounds are buried, nay, entrenched in my mind! I can't get the sounds out of the fringes of my mental ear even though I know they're not there and have even stuck my head outside to force my hearing to hear that it's quiet outside.

:sob:

But I can still hear them as if they're still going on deep in the distance.

Police sirens!

Home alarms!

Arghhhhh!!!!!!

 

[USS Triumphant]

Sometimes toward the end of a long day, I'll start repeatedly hallucinating my ringtone. Vivid just like it's real.

 

[ITL]

I've had constant tinnitus for the last couple of months that includes a low frequency buzzing in my left ear alongside the high pitched one in both. My doctor is most puzzled.

Not quite what you meant, but there you go.

 

[Jadzia]

I've had constant tinnitus for the last couple of months that includes a low frequency buzzing in my left ear alongside the high pitched one in both. My doctor is most puzzled.

Not quite what you meant, but there you go.

http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?p=2572686#post2572686

 

[Geckothan]

I prescribe haloperidol.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

I've had constant tinnitus for the last couple of months that includes a low frequency buzzing in my left ear alongside the high pitched one in both. My doctor is most puzzled.

Not quite what you meant, but there you go.

I've had it for years now. It can be maddening. I've found having something playing in the background all the time helps. Radio, television, a dvd, whatever. I focus on the other sound and my mind zones in on that so i don't hear the ringing etc in my ears. It does help.

And then of course, there are the voices..........

 

[RoJoHen]

I always hear my phone's text message sound whenever I pee, but when I check my phone, there are no new texts.

 

[Deckerd]

Yes but the voices tell me to ignore them.

 

[Awesome Possum]

Drums. The never ending drumbeat.

 

[RoJoHen]

Drums. The never ending drumbeat.

Remind me to stay away from you.

 

[ThankQ]

I'm not sure it's possible to hear a sound that isn't there.

 

[USS Triumphant]

I'm not sure it's possible to hear a sound that isn't there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_hallucination

 

[ThankQ]

I'm not sure it's possible to hear a sound that isn't there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_hallucination

Yes, that's not hearing. Hearing is when a wave hits a drum and sends a signal to the brain.

When the brain makes up its own signals, you are hearing nothing.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Don't be pedantic.

 

[USS Triumphant]

Yes, that's not hearing. Hearing is when a wave hits a drum and sends a signal to the brain.

When the brain makes up its own signals, you are hearing nothing.

Well, true. But when those signals seem to come in on the same "channels" that your auditory sense works on, it is close enough to hearing as to make almost* no difference, on the subjective level.

*A few years back I was in the hopital for a little over a week - pretty much bored out of my skull and taking in the same boring stimuli on all of my senses over and over again. Toward the end of the week I started "hearing" music at night. In particular, I remember hearing "Take Me Home" by Genesis. I say "almost" above, because I can't recall ever hearing an actual stereo system produce that song as clearly, loudly, and vividly - it was superior to actually hearing it.

 

[Geckothan]

*A few years back I was in the hopital for a little over a week - pretty much bored out of my skull and taking in the same boring stimuli on all of my senses over and over again. Toward the end of the week I started "hearing" music at night. In particular, I remember hearing "Take Me Home" by Genesis. I say "almost" above, because I can't recall ever hearing an actual stereo system produce that song as clearly, loudly, and vividly - it was superior to actually hearing it.

Did they have you on lots of opiates?

 

[Deckerd]

*A few years back I was in the hopital for a little over a week - pretty much bored out of my skull and taking in the same boring stimuli on all of my senses over and over again. Toward the end of the week I started "hearing" music at night. In particular, I remember hearing "Take Me Home" by Genesis. I say "almost" above, because I can't recall ever hearing an actual stereo system produce that song as clearly, loudly, and vividly - it was superior to actually hearing it.

Have you read Touching the Void by Joe Simpson? When he made it back to base camp, having lost a third of his bodyweight and unable to do more than move his arms he kept hearing Brown Girl in the Ring by Boney M playing over and over.

When I play bejeweled blitz for too long, I get all those symbols floating about when I close my eyes.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

When I play bejeweled blitz for too long, I get all those symbols floating about when I close my eyes.

I get that for Guitar Hero

 

[ThankQ]

Don't be pedantic.

I'm not. My point is, to understand it, don't think of it as "hearing", think of it as "thinking".

Do you ever "think" sounds that aren't there.

I don't think being accurate is being pedantic.


People are genuinely confused in that they wonder, "How do I hear something that isn't there?" Well, they don't! Perhaps if they understood it as "thinking" instead of "hearing" it wouldn't be so confusing.


Calling something what it IS promotes understanding. Calling something what it isn't promotes confusion.

 

[RoJoHen]

I don't think people are as confused as you think they are.