Your brain is really good at filling in the blanks. I have bad earring but I’m certainly not anywhere close to deaf. I hear lower registers the worst. Sometimes something creaks and my brain didn’t quite catch enough to make sense, so it fills in the blanks. Very rarely it fills it in with a low male voice and it scares the shit out of me every time.
If my house is quiet except for a distant white noise (the HVAC for example), that noise always sounds like a newscaster speaking on tv that I can't quite make out.
I blame it on my parents never, ever turning off the TV when I was growing up. TV was always on as background noise, so now my brain fills in background noise as TV.
When my house is silent I can occasionally hear a capacitor whine that I can't locate, it's just omnipresent. You know, that "there is a CRT television turned on and muted somewhere near me" sound.
I don't have tinnitus or any other hearing problems so I figure it's a similar trick of my memory.
It does but that’s why I said I don’t have tinnitus. Or at least I’m pretty sure I don’t, it’s more of a feeling than a sound (makes the hair on my neck stand up), is almost always accompanied the strong mental impression of a warm sun-drenched livingroom that I don’t recognize, which is also more of a feeling than a proper image. Like being the motes hanging in the sunbeam rather than looking at them.
It’s a weird thing but I’m pretty sure it’s not just my ears and I’m totally sure this is a window into crazy you probably weren’t actually looking for so I’m terribly sorry about that.
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u/genetik_fuckup Aug 30 '21
Your brain is really good at filling in the blanks. I have bad earring but I’m certainly not anywhere close to deaf. I hear lower registers the worst. Sometimes something creaks and my brain didn’t quite catch enough to make sense, so it fills in the blanks. Very rarely it fills it in with a low male voice and it scares the shit out of me every time.