I’m trying to figure out what’s happening to me and I’m not sure where to look.
For the last several years, whenever I listen to silence-filling noise (white, brown, pink, etc.) I tend to hear additional sounds. It’s like having your radio tuned to a MHz that’s just off a tiny bit, so you hear static but there’s just a slight edge of voices or something that you can’t quite make out but is definitely there. Sometimes, instead of voices, it’s also patterns in the noise or various pitches.
It happens in a variety of situations, like Youtube videos, audio tracks from meditation apps and noise generators, and even devices that have no audio input or antenna and are specifically for noise as you’d find in the waiting room of a massage clinic. It even happens when it’s a completely benign source like an air fan. And the sounds I hear match the volume of the source.
Do I have superpowers? A brain tumor? Am I just sensitive to imperfect wave form generation? Am I part-dog? Have I done damage to myself from listening to Metallica way too loud for too many years?
Where do I start looking into this? Does anyone have any possible explanations for what I’m experiencing that might lead me in the right direction?
dude your brain is doing a ton of things all the time youre not directly aware of. youre just accidentally being made aware of your brains background noise.
if it comes into focus (you can hear and understand sustained voices/noises) , see a doctor.
otherwise it seems like the normal background brain chatter ive dealt with my whole life.
Not to imply anything about your wellbeing, but “background brain chatter” you’ve dealt with your whole life could also be a symptom of something that’s still bottled up inside your brain. Even if you have if under control, you may want to mention it to your doctor next time you’re getting something checked out, just in case.
Stuff like this could be completely benign, but it’s worth making sure you’re not at risk of any serious complications. For instance, certain drugs have been known to expose symptoms in certain schizophrenia cases for people thst would’ve otherwise lived decades longer without any serious symptoms.
It’s probably nothing, but knowing it’s nothing is better than assuming it’s nothing.
ha, im old. ive made peace with most of my quirks. i consider myself one of the lucky ones with mildly enhanced awareness.
it kills me that all these religious wackjobs ‘trust their feelings’. dude, how can you trust a meat-chemical bag of bullshit? ours species motto is ‘to err is human’ but sure, your feelings for jesus means hes real.