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You might be able to experience it yourself. Just move your eyes all the way (ALL the way) to the right or left and hold them there for a second, you might hear/feel a high-pitched sensation almost like a slight tickle right where your eardrum is.
I have always felt it, but presumed it was "cross talk" in the optical nerves being interpreted as "movement" in the outer ear. You might be able to experience it yourself. Just move your eyes all the way (ALL the way) to the right or left and hold them there for a second, you might hear/feel a high-pitched sensation almost like a slight tickle right where your eardrum is.
I wonder what other sensory anomalies we experience without realising ?
Oh god I can feel them doing it now.
Oh god I can feel them doing it now.
I have always felt it, but presumed it was "cross talk" in the optical nerves being interpreted as "movement" in the outer ear. You might be able to experience it yourself. Just move your eyes all the way (ALL the way) to the right or left and hold them there for a second, you might hear/feel a high-pitched sensation almost like a slight tickle right where your eardrum is.
Until you pointed this out, I hadn’t noticed it, but it has indeed always been there. I wonder what other sensory anomalies we experience without realising ?
Also, eye saccades are a great example of this. If you look at your own eyes in the mirror and switch between looking at your left and right eyes, you don't see your eyes move. If you watch someone else do this, you do.
Is this why people turn the radio down when trying to look for an address, parking space, etc?
Ever notice when you chew the sound gets attenuated when you clamp down?
Fun fact: some people have conscious control of this muscle and can voluntarily "screw up their ears" (at least that's what it feels like, it also makes a roaring/rushing sound) to dampen sounds.