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Can you hear silence?

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Seeing the other thread about hearing the high pitched whine of a CRT TV, I thought I'd ask this. If you live in a quite area, and at night when all the electronic devices are turned off in your house and there are no cars outside so there's almost complete silence, do you hear anything? I have to really focus and stay still so I don't make any noise, but I hear a high pitched constant noise. I have no idea whether it's just imagined, or because my eardrums are ringing from a day of usage, but it actually sounds quite loud in my head. As soon as I make a noise, it's diminished considerably. After a while of being in silence, it fades away.

Weird, eh? =/
 
If it's a loud ringing that you can hear most of the time, and it goes on for a while, it's Tinnitus.
 
But I also read somewhere (I think it was in Timeline), that even in complete silence, healthy ears will here a slight ringing due to radio waves and electronic signals that are constant today.
 
Same here. But I think it's normal, some wierd combination of everyday hearing loss and your brain trying too hard to listen so you are getting "noise".

If it's really pronounced you may be suffering from tinnitus, go to a hearing specialist before you go completely deaf.
 
i hear the "silence". but if there's some other sounds, it just fades away. or probably it's still there but too weak to hear compared to the other sounds.
 
I HAVE to have a fan or something going to go to sleep, because I hear the 'tin' or ringing noise and it's hard to ignore it. How loud does it have to be for it to be considered Tinnitus?
 
Originally posted by: Beau
But I also read somewhere (I think it was in Timeline), that even in complete silence, healthy ears will here a slight ringing due to radio waves and electronic signals that are constant today.
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Hear radio signals?? =/
 
Originally posted by: clicknext
Originally posted by: Beau
But I also read somewhere (I think it was in Timeline), that even in complete silence, healthy ears will here a slight ringing due to radio waves and electronic signals that are constant today.
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Hear radio signals?? =/
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See, I knew I wasn't the only one..😉

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Originally posted by: clicknext
Originally posted by: Beau
But I also read somewhere (I think it was in Timeline), that even in complete silence, healthy ears will here a slight ringing due to radio waves and electronic signals that are constant today.
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Hear radio signals?? =/
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Quick! Grab your tinfoil helmets!!!!!!!!
 
Originally posted by: Taggart
I HAVE to have a fan or something going to go to sleep, because I hear the 'tin' or ringing noise and it's hard to ignore it. How loud does it have to be for it to be considered Tinnitus?
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yup me too. i HATE sleeping with no background noises. but if its a noise like someone snoring (the type of noise that comes in and out in a constant pattern), or a cricket chirping, then i can't sleep just because i anticipate the next noise it will make, making me think about it and not being able to fall asleep.
 
Originally posted by: Beau
If it's a loud ringing that you can hear most of the time, and it goes on for a while, it's Tinnitus.
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Yeah, i have it, i fell asleep INSIDE of a large bass speaker 15 years ago, i need some kind of music without a pulse to go to sleep these days, Enya works.
 
It's been said that in an anechoic chamber, you can still hear a low sound (your heart) and a high sound (your brain). The composer John Cage experimented with that a lot.
 
Originally posted by: sobriquet
It's been said that in an anechoic chamber, you can still hear a low sound (your heart) and a high sound (your brain). The composer John Cage experimented with that a lot.
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You can defineitely still here your heartbeat , intestines etc.... I used to work at a acoustics lab and I would always go inside lie down and have someone turn off the lights on me for a while.It was quiet fun.<who got the pun>
 
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