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I had never seen this described before, but I have always experimented it with noise such as from air conditioners or plane flights. Especially plane flights, a
by Al-Khwarizmi 10y ago
I had never seen this described before, but I have always experimented it with noise such as from air conditioners or plane flights. Especially plane flights, as the noise is so loud. However, I don't hear voices, but music (maybe because I'm a music lover?) And I have learned to control it, so that I can somewhat listen to the music I want (kind of: I can control the melody, but timbre control is very limited, and sometimes I lose melody control too). It keeps me entertained for a while on flights.
A pity the article doesn't really explain the reason. I have always assumed (just as a wild, uninformed guess) that it's because the noise contains a wide selection of frequencies, so if our brain is looking for one for some reason, it can tune the others away and isolate it.
- laxatives 10y agoI've had very similar experiences sailing. Sleeping in a bunk, you get accustomed to the swooshing sound of the water running against the hull and the drone of an engine. After a few weeks, I was certain I could hear the radio on and knew the tune being played. I asked the crew members who brought the radio and they thought I was crazy. There was no radio. It was uncanny, i thought I heard the song word for word, almost note for note, but it was all in my head.
- Nition 10y agoI think I know what you mean. It's quite easy for me as well to take a white noise type of sound and "hear" a certain note that I might decide to imagine. Then change it a little and "hear" that new note in the same sound. Like you, I've always assumed it's just because the noise really contains a whole lot of different frequencies. Interesting to talk about it because I've never really thought much about it before. It's a conscious thing for me. I don't really hear the notes in the noise unless I think them on purpose.