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There was much rejoicing when Kalculus Kid or Mathinator or Waisz said this:
I do, but only if it's absolutely silent around me. I guess that's why I usually have background noise.
Most of the time I can ignore it since it's a many times a day occurance at a low volume. Every once in a while it's annoyingly loud and can interfer with whatever I'm trying to concentrate on.
"Thank you for calling Sony..."
I can make them go away, but they won't let me
It's not something people hear about.
Including me.
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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
I think I've developed the opposite. Every so often it's like all the sounds around me get the volume turned down real low. Only lasts a few seconds, then it picks back up. In fact sometimes I have uncanny hearing. No constant ringing, though, thank god. That would drive me barmy.
it's kinda like the floaters in your eyes.
You don't even notice them unless you're trying to.
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A sleep deprived Somthor stammered:
I hear running water alot. late at night it drive me crazy I run around making sure all the facects are off and when they are I take a pill and hope for the best
That's just real good hearing. This is more a sound that isn't there that you still hear. Not the "kill your parents" crazy sound, but more like your earlobe is busted somewhat and it constantly plays the pitches you lose. If you have that good hearing, for me it sounds similar to when you leave something electronic on, so you probably know what that sound is. When you leave your monitor on across the room and can hear it its that sound, only a little higher pitched. If you ever go spelunking and have it, you'll know it. You lose the ability to hear a frequency and it constantly plays in your ear.
But I understand your problem too. For quite a while if it was mostly silent my ears could pick up distant sounds and amplify them to speaking level. They were still distorted enough to know they were distant sounds, but when I was a kid it made it hard to sleep.
Now I have sirens, screaming babies, people hammering at the wall, people screaming at each other, honking horns all around me, and quite loud, but I can focus on the noise of tinnitus when I try to sleep and it actually helps. I cant hear as well as I used to and sometimes I have to raise the volume on the tv to overpower the ringing, but I dont understand how it drives people crazy. Maybe they have it real bad. My right ear got a lot worse than it used to over the past few months, hence the post.
Also.. a weird side effect. Just as I used to be able to hear quiet sounds and ampliphy them, I can hear very loud noses and dull them down if I chose. I listen to loud music on my headphones that "hurts" other people if they hear that music because it is so loud, but for me it doesn't seem that loud. [ 12-30-2003: Message edited by: diadem ]
I also hear the high-pitched whine made by some monitors, and similar noises from other various computer equipment (my home PC could use some minor replacement parts, but it isn't worth the cost or time). Though I don't know the frequencies, I can tell you they're about comparable with baby birds chirping (we had a sparrow nest in our air conditioner a few years ago).
Cut that out, Vorbis.
