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Have you ever experienced a sudden hearing change, similar to suddenly being underwater?
    #10380671 - 05/22/09 07:46 AM (15 years, 1 day ago)

I've noticed this since my teens.  I'll just be somewhere and suddenly I feel my hearing has changed.  Like a wave has come over me, my hearing will change so that thing will sound differently.  Mostly it seems to affect the pitch of what I'm hearing but sometimes things will sound muffled as well.  As I said, it's similar to being underwater but not as drastic as that.

Ever since I noticed it, I would often say something about it to those around me when it happened and some people have told me they had experienced what I was describing.  What really intrigued me though was that ever so often, they were joint experiences.  By that I mean that when it happened and I said something, someone else would tell me they had just experienced the same thing.  Though there could have been several other people present who were not affected.

Have you ever experienced anything like this and does anyone have any idea what it could be?

EDIT - I clarified what I meant by joint experience.

Since it has happened to others at the same time, it has to be linked to something environmental, like a change in barometric pressure or like.  But then, why doesn't everyone experience it?

Edited by HagbardCeline (05/22/09 07:57 AM)

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Re: Have you ever experienced a sudden hearing change, similar to suddenly being underwater? [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #10380870 - 05/22/09 08:36 AM (15 years, 23 hours ago)

If more than once person experiences it together, then I would think it has to be environmental.  Perhaps a change in air density, pressure, or temperature.  Possibly even a change in background noise.  As for why not everybody experiences it, perhaps they are not as "in tune" with their environment.

It could also be a mental thing.  I've been amazed at how good my hearing can get when I am tripping on mushrooms, being able to hear conversations between people in their home several houses down the street.

It could also be a physical thing... something to do with the sinuses closing up (allergies, chemicals in the air, etc), ear infection, etc.


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Re: Have you ever experienced a sudden hearing change, similar to suddenly being underwater? [Re: Seuss]
    #10382354 - 05/22/09 02:23 PM (15 years, 18 hours ago)

Hmmm, I never considered the sinuses.  I do have a lot of sinus problems.  I'll start paying attention to my sinus condition when I next experience the phenomena.

About those who haven't acknowledged knowing what I'm talking about not being "in tune", I suppose it could be, but it's drastic enough (for me at least and I think the others as well) that I can't believe someone would notice it. 

It's definitely not a change in background noise, though when it happens that usually the first thing I notice.  It's almost like suddenly putting on a set of headphones and hearing everything transmitted through a mic.  Everything will just suddenly sound different, even though all of the noises are still there and unchanged.

Have you ever experienced what I'm describing?

The more I think about the sinuses though the more I think that may be an explanation.  If they were to suddenly close up, I would think that could easily produce the effect I'm describing.


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Re: Have you ever experienced a sudden hearing change, similar to suddenly being underwater? [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #10382493 - 05/22/09 02:54 PM (15 years, 17 hours ago)

Have you ever experienced what I'm describing?

Yes! I had always just chalked it up to having bad ears :smirk:

Is it like a sudden deadening of the sound? Like someone just put an earplug in, but one that doesn't work too well?

It mostly happens in one ear...though I seem to remember it happening to both ears once or twice.


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Re: Have you ever experienced a sudden hearing change, similar to suddenly being underwater? [Re: trendal]
    #10382516 - 05/22/09 02:58 PM (15 years, 17 hours ago)

As a side note...after reading your thread this morning, I tried a little search online and discovered something called the "microwave auditory effect" where you can actually hear microwaves being beamed in your direction, but there isn't a "noise" that can be picked up with a microphone!

Something to do with heating up the fluid that surrounds the cochlea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_auditory_effect


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Re: Have you ever experienced a sudden hearing change, similar to suddenly being underwater? [Re: trendal]
    #10383822 - 05/22/09 08:31 PM (15 years, 11 hours ago)

It can definitely feel like that, but like you said it's not as drastic as you would normally experience an ear plug.  I've never noticed it only affecting one ear, though it very well could be.  I usually just focus in on the change and have never felt like it was only happening to one ear.

I also meant to clarify in the original post and title about being underwater - it isn't nearly as dramatic as that, but it's a similar type of sensation.

The microwave thing is another interesting angle and that seems like it would also explain the seeming randomness.  Are leaky microwaves that common?  Though, it also says it's experienced as a series of clicks and pops and I've never heard that with it.


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Re: Have you ever experienced a sudden hearing change, similar to suddenly being underwater? [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #10386463 - 05/23/09 01:52 PM (14 years, 11 months ago)

I also experience this somewhat often. Never really thought anything of it besides "weird".

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Re: Have you ever experienced a sudden hearing change, similar to suddenly being underwater? [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #14760418 - 07/13/11 12:29 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Since posting this, I can't recall it happening even one time.  From my early teens until that original post, it happened dozens of times, at least several times a year.

Now, nothing.

I may need guidance from the Conspiracy section.  :tinfoil:


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Re: Have you ever experienced a sudden hearing change, similar to suddenly being underwater? [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #14760478 - 07/13/11 12:46 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

I agree with Seuss's explanation and would note that the ear drum is a thin membrane between two bodies of air, and a change in the pressure of either of those bodies relative to the other will result in a change in the acoustics of the ear drum.

The outer-facing portion is of course expoed to the atmosphere, while the interior portion of the membrane is in contact with the inner ear.  This cavity is joined to the throat via tubes that may become inflamed due to allergy, infection, chemical irritation, and any number of things.  In such a case, the pressure of the inner ear cannot easily equalize with the air, so changes in atmospheric pressure will result in a pressure differential across the eardrum.

I would imagine this mechanism accounts for much of the phenomena you describe.  It is the same mechanism that distorts your hearing if you have an ear infection which can cause increased pressure in the inner ear, and can even cause a burst eardrum if the atmospheric pressure drops due to ascending in an airplane or something similar.

As for the change in the frequency of these events: the tube that connects your inner ear to the throat is more convoluted when you are young, and straightens as you mature and your head gorws larger in volume.  This convolution at earlier years results in an increased incidence of ear infections for younger people as the tube may be more easily obstructed, and drains more slowly.  As I imagine this is the same mechanism causing the phenomena you report, it would make sense that this would decrease as your body stops growing.

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Re: Have you ever experienced a sudden hearing change, similar to suddenly being underwater? [Re: johnm214]
    #14760900 - 07/13/11 05:04 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

As for the change in the frequency of these events: the tube that connects your inner ear to the throat is more convoluted when you are young, and straightens as you mature and your head gorws larger in volume.  This convolution at earlier years results in an increased incidence of ear infections for younger people as the tube may be more easily obstructed, and drains more slowly.  As I imagine this is the same mechanism causing the phenomena you report, it would make sense that this would decrease as your body stops growing.

For me, at least, there has been no change in how often it happens. Still a couple times per year.


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Re: Have you ever experienced a sudden hearing change, similar to suddenly being underwater? [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #14760958 - 07/13/11 05:28 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

look up tinitus


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when I am tripping on mushrooms, being able to hear conversations between people in their home several houses down the street.




sounds more like you're believing what your imagination hears. you can visualize thoughts, why cant you hear them?:shrug:

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