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> which I sometimes call “silence” I've had mild tinnitus as long as I can remember; my earliest memory of it must have been when I was about four years old.
by technothrasher 1y ago
> which I sometimes call “silence”
I've had mild tinnitus as long as I can remember; my earliest memory of it must have been when I was about four years old. I suspect I've had it my entire life. When I was a child, I thought it was just something normal that everybody had. When I heard the Simon and Garfunkel song, "The Sound of Silence", I thought that was what they were talking about.
- grg0 1y agoAre we talking about that thing you hear when in absolute silence in the dead of night? Is absolute silence even a thing?
- technothrasher 1y agoI don't know what anybody else hears in absolute silence, but I hear a high pitched ringing. I can hear it any time I think about it. Like the other poster said though, my brain filters it out typically when other noise is around and I'm not paying attention to it.
- davidivadavid 1y agoHaving tinnitus for a couple decades at this point, I can tell you for a fact "absolute silence" is definitely a very clear memory for me. I would lie in my bed before sleep, and enjoying the experience of complete silence was almost part of my go-to-sleep routine. I'm quite surprised people in this thread seem to assume everyone always has some low-level hiss. I certainly didn't.