Do your ears ring when it is quiet? · 1:36pm Jan 23rd, 2020
I never really thought about it till now.
I always hear a subtle ringing noise when I go into a quiet place. The quieter it is, the louder the ringing. I can always tune out the ringing, so I've always assumed that was normal. I've been thinking that most other people experience the same thing (I even mentioned ear ringing in the tagged story). But now I'm thinking that may be not true.
Also while I'm on the topic, my ears also pop every time (like, every time) I swallow, ever since I went on a plane ride as a kid. I'm almost 70% sure most people don't have that.
Do any of y'all experience these?
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Use a mobile phone?
The world has known since Soviet times that mobile phone level microwaves create ringing. They say it is due to heating of the eardrum and other parts.
It is actually quite well documented. The CIA website has declassified Soviet lab experiments. Australia has the Barnett report done by the CSIRO in 1992, and the Japanese have the Shinjyo apartment flat studies where they tested all the residents before and after cellular towers in 1997.
Nose bleeds are also on that list. Not for heating like the ear, but the microwaves disrupt the nasal blood lining. Again, well documented for decades by the East and West.
This phenomenon is called tinnitus. Everyone experiences it at a certain level of overall quiet. The reason for this is that your sensory cells - and this includes your eyes, the neurons in your nose, and so forth - do not operate on an 'absolute value' system of input. Instead, they operate based on deviation from a mid-point. So what this means is that tinnitus is not, in and of itself, unusual. However, if someone is going deaf for instance, this issue will become more and more problematic as their perceived volume level decreases, causing every situation to seem 'quiet enough' to trigger it. If you focus, you may be able to detect the ringing sound even when there are other noises present; it's a kind of undertone.
Having your ears pop that often is unusual. It suggests there's too much pressure in your ear canal. It may be wise to get that looked at.
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That actually explains it very well. Thanks.
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Hmm interesting, do you have a link to the studies?
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No problem. I'm always around if you've got questions, on virtually any topic, so just shoot me a PM.
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The files and the links are saved on my work computer.
But google search should find them.
Also, these reports are decades old - we know so much more now. Specifically, the 1992 CSIRO paper only suggests a link between microwave V/m and nerve ending activation. Now, in 2020, that is now known as the critical effect - the old 1950's model of heating is now superceded as far as in-vivo interactions go.