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> (Don't confuse this with the world wide paranormal hum people claim to hear) Taking this sort of random swipe at at people who experience this is kind of rud
by jusssi 6y ago
> (Don't confuse this with the world wide paranormal hum people claim to hear)
Taking this sort of random swipe at at people who experience this is kind of rude. Even though it's pretty much confirmed it's not a real audio signal coming from outside of a person's body, there isn't quite enough evidence it isn't a real auditory sensation for these people (instead of psychological or "paranormal" issue).
I do get the hum sometimes, usually happens when my shoulders are tense. Also usually only in one ear, which is why I was able to pretty quickly rule out an external source (though when it first happened, I did spend some time opening and closing windows, listening at ventilation ducts, trying to locate it).
Edit: I'll add it here that sometimes it is a real sound. We live a couple of km away from a harbor, and the sound we get to our place from an idling cruise liner is very similar to what my ears sometimes generate by themselves. It's really hard to tell them apart except by trying if it gets louder (and more high freq components) by opening a window. The point is, at least in an urban environment it can be pretty hard to tell if the hum is real or not.
- aaron695 6y ago> Taking this sort of random swipe at at people who experience this is kind of rude. > Even though it's pretty much confirmed it's not a real audio signal coming from outside of a person's body Why would you not think you have the well documented medical condition Tinnitus? "The Hum" is "a real audio signal coming from outside of a person's body", except it's not real. (And the first Google result for "The Hum" is this legend, not the vibrations from the oceans hum) It was on the X-Files for instance - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_(The_X-Files) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_(The_X-Files) William Shatner's The UnXplained - https://www.history.com/shows/the-unxplained/season-1/episode-4 https://www.history.com/shows/the-unxplained/season-1/episod... I have friends who believe in the paranormal. I don't disagree with them, even if it's medical like this. But I also won't agree with them. I'm not sure if that's cowardice.
- jusssi 6y agoFor me the first google result the Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum) which offers several explanations, including actual measurable man-made external sources, a type of tinnitus, and some more rare or speculative circumstances. My understanding is that hum-like low-frequency tinnitus is not all that well documented. Feel free to provide links to sources to prove me wrong.
- NoSorryCannot 6y agoThis is ridiculous. Neither environmental hums nor hallucinations or tinnitus or other psychological sources are paranormal. I'm fine dismissing out of hand paranormal hums and paranormal phenomena generally. You don't appear to even be in this group and yet you feel personally attacked?
- jusssi 6y agoThis is internet; the place where people go to exercise their right to feel offended. Welcome! I read the quoted part as the whole class of people with this auditory issue being binned as truth-is-out-there nutjobs, and decided to offer a bit of perspective. It was probably an overreaction on my part.