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Ever notice when you chew the sound gets attenuated when you clamp down?
That's one of the automatic functions of the tensor tympani muscle. It also does it when you talk, and as part of your startle reflex. 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.
Ever notice when you chew the sound gets attenuated when you clamp down?
That's one of the automatic functions of the tensor tympani muscle. It also does it when you talk, and as part of your startle reflex. 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.
Ever notice when you chew the sound gets attenuated when you clamp down?
That's one of the automatic functions of the tensor tympani muscle. It also does it when you talk, and as part of your startle reflex. 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.
Ever notice when you chew the sound gets attenuated when you clamp down?
That's one of the automatic functions of the tensor tympani muscle. It also does it when you talk, and as part of your startle reflex. 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.
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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 ?
This is why buddhist monks talk about reality vibrating - the continuity of reality is an illusion constructed by the brain, while the actual perceptions generated are a series of discrete experiences. 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…
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As soon as I tried to sense it I could and now I can't stop.
This is torture, how do you stop it??? Don’t try this if you haven’t!!
There is a medical condition where people can hear their own eye movements. > The bizarre phenomenon of being able to hear the sound of the eyeballs moving in their sockets (e.g. when reading in a quiet room) "like sandpaper on wood" is one of the more distinctive features of this condition and is almost exclusively associated with SCDS. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_canal_dehiscence_sy...