The way I would interpret the article relates to my experience with lucid imaging. Sort of like dreaming but I'm really just seeing a scene rather than experien

The way I would interpret the article relates to my experience with lucid imaging. Sort of like dreaming but I'm really just seeing a scene rather than experiencing something. I can only do this in similar conditions as lucid dreaming (but I've very rarely experienced that). The thing I found is that you have to have no external perceptions for my imagined ones to form. Once I've seen the real world, it's near impossible to forget it and get back to my imagined one. I suspect that tinnitus is similar in that the lack of an external signal allows for filling in with imagined sounds. Since there's no external reset the default could be simple tones (at least that's what I hear). For the analogy to hold the pitches of the sounds imagined should match frequencies of hearing loss. I tried to match up what I imagine I hear with recorded tones and it's close to the limit, e.g. I can hear faintly up to about 16 kHz and the tone I imagine is about 15 kHz--I don't recall the exact numbers but it was relatively like that. I suppose with practice one could imagine hearing something while awake in those frequencies to the point it's indistinguishable from actually hearing it. I don't think I'd want to learn how to induce specific sounds or voices in my head that I can't turn off at will. At least you can know that the high-pitched sounds aren't real.