Re: [microsound] Re: Brain Can Generate Unexplained Noise In Ears

[dbuchwald <dagmar.buchwald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hm, stuff like that might happen to people without tinnitus as well.  From early
age on I have been extremely sensitive of certain noises: the worst is other
people biting and chewing apples next to me, followed by potato chips and the
sounds some people make while eating soup or moving candies in their mouths.
Also the sound of other people kissing next to me drives me crazy.  I am not sure
whether all those sounds share the same or a similar frequency but my reaction is
very idiosyncratic.  It's not that the sounds hurt my _ears_, it's rather that it
works directly on my output of adrenaline.  I get extremely angry up to the point
where I could hit whovever produces that sound.  My body gets hot and sometimes
my face flushes.  I can no longer concentrate on anything else until the sound
stops.  Very often I simply have to leave the room.  There is no way of
controlling it or calming down.  I just want it to stop.  NOW!  Similarly I am
very self-conscious when eating an apple and I cannot understand that other
poeple don't even seem to notice the noise.  Often I apologize for being rude and
that don't know what I am talking about. (During exams at school the hell was
when people started to open their lunch-boxes while writing their exams and began
to fetch their apples.  Since they didn't do it all at the same time but, of
course, one after the other, I often had no chance to concentrate on the exam at
all.  All I could do was to clench my fists and pray that it might stop ... Or
put my fingers in my ears, but that wouldn't stop the heat in me boiling).

Now I know that my father was/is similarly sensitive to similar sounds and that
he also reacted quite 'explosively'.  A few years ago a colleague told me that
his young daughter, a toddler at that time, regularly began to cry at certain
sounds and that she hid under the table.  He described similar
adrenaline-reactions on his part concerning some sounds and that the child's
doctor had mentioned a disease/illness that was only passed on from father to
daughter.  Has anyone ever heard of that?

The weird thing is that with growing age I came to like very high ringing or
insect-like sounds (otherwise I couldn't listen and enjoy microsound the way I
do).  When I was much younger I preferred deep bass lines but that's almost
gone.  Now I am fascinated by very high sounds and they don't hurt my eart all.
On the contrary, they help me concentrate.  But obviously those frequnecies are
higher than the sound of chewing apples.  But are they higher than eating chips?

By the way, there are sound where other people regularly cringe such as chalk
charring across the blackboard; that never hurt or irritated my at all.  Weird.
Does anyone know more about those phenomena or shares similar idiosyncracies?

I have never experienced tinnitus, however.

Dagmar

© wrote:

> > This has nothing to do with the content of that articl really, but I wonder
> > if any of you (who has tinnitus) has noticed better hearing , as in more
> > sensitive, after you got tinnitus? I do, or at least I think I do. Some
> > frequencies tend to sound more focused compared to others (this way of
> > thinking may be as stupid as telling a colour blind person to describe the
> > colour red...) and I'm more sensitive to high frequencies than others seem
> > to be.
>
> Yes, in my case it come from many years of percussive activity. As a result
> I have a very hi pitched ring that is with me continually. At the onset,
> this sound was very disturbing and life and perception changing event, as
> was the notion of never being able to "hear" silence again. At that time the
> sound of a commercial jetliner flying overhead sounded to me like an
> enormous sheet being torn, like the sound of a jet plane playing through a
> distorting speaker. Hammering a nail into a piece of wood was impossible to
> do without hearing protection. I was even sensitive to the loud clapping of
> hands. Thankfully things have gotten better since then, though every night,
> when I am going to bed, I am reminded of just how loud this tinnitus is.
>
> Yesterday, I went hiking with my family and found that I was very sensitive
> to things moving in the bushes. I heard something moving to my right, looked
> and saw a snake making its way. No one else really heard it, of course they
> were further behind me, but it occurred to me then that maybe I hear certain
> things more acutely in particular frequency ranges, primarily upper mids.
> Interestingly, I also find myself more attracted to sounds that are outside
> of this range, possibly in a compensatory response.
>
> Very serendipitous timing on this thread,
> Chris
>
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