A Mysterious Sound Is Driving People Insane – Nobody Knows What's Causing It
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#2A Mysterious Sound
that can't even be isolated or really called a "sound," since reports differ so greatly
Is Driving People Insane
the article itself does not make or substantiate this claim
Nobody Knows What's Causing It
because "it" may or may not be a new thing, a single thing, or even a thing
Re: A Mysterious Sound Is Driving People Insane – Nobody Knows What's Causing It
#3A Mysterious Sound that can't even be isolated or really called a "sound," since reports differ so greatly Is Driving People Insane the article itself does not make or substantiate this claim Nobody Knows What's Causing It because "it" may or may not be a new thing, a single thing, or even a thing
Ya this seems like hyperbole. I clicked on it thinking it was that annoying sound from older TVs when they are just 'on' but nothing is play [no static, etc].
Re: A Mysterious Sound Is Driving People Insane – Nobody Knows What's Causing It
#4A Mysterious Sound that can't even be isolated or really called a "sound," since reports differ so greatly Is Driving People Insane the article itself does not make or substantiate this claim Nobody Knows What's Causing It because "it" may or may not be a new thing, a single thing, or even a thing
I'm not sure why you're so hostile to this. Perhaps I'm just misreading your words.
Various "mysterious" noises are heard across the workd and cause problems for inhabitants. The noises are mysterious because it can be hard to work out what is causing the noise.
Noise is used as a tool by torturers. Tinnitus can sometimes lead people to attempt suicide. It seems fair to suggest that an unstopping unexplained noise can cause extreme distress. I dislike the wording "driving people insane" because I work in de-stigmatising MH problems, but the meaning is clear.
Here's an example of a mysterious noise from England.
http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/HUM-KNOW/story-20347005-detail/...
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum
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I'd be interested to know what happens if they build a chamber that is provably isolated from "The Hum" and put sufferers inside it. Do those people still experience it? Even better if there's some kind of double blind way of isolating / not isolating the chamber from the Hum.
Re: A Mysterious Sound Is Driving People Insane – Nobody Knows What's Causing It
#5A Mysterious Sound that can't even be isolated or really called a "sound," since reports differ so greatly Is Driving People Insane the article itself does not make or substantiate this claim Nobody Knows What's Causing It because "it" may or may not be a new thing, a single thing, or even a thing
I'm not sure why you're so hostile to this. Perhaps I'm just misreading your words. Various "mysterious" noises are heard across the workd and cause problems for inhabitants. The noises are mysterious because it can be hard to work out what is causing the noise. Noise is used as a tool by torturers. Tinnitus can sometimes lead people to attempt suicide. It seems fair to suggest that an unstopping unexplained noise ca…
I think we can all agree on what you said. But I will not agree that there is one universal, external common cause for all these things, an elusive mystery. But this is what the article claims.
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#6That map looks just like a population map of the USA and UK, plus assorted English speakers from western Europe. Combined with the fact that the sound seems to grow stronger indoors, I think the source is inside their own heads. Not in the sense that they're crazy, though. Maybe as people get older and their inner ear changes slightly, the signals that are being sent when everything is silent also change, but the brain doesn't. So they interpret the "silent" signal as "the hum".
My first test would be stuffing their ears and putting them in a perfectly isolated acoustic chamber to see if they still hear it. I'm pretty sure they would.
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#7Hmmm, inner ear problems?
Aren't VLF radio waves supposed to be very very weak energy-wise? Why would your body pick those.
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#8It's not clear to me why it's not straightforward to test these hypotheses. There are apparently plenty of hum sufferers out there, and it sounds like many would be happy to help with any testing that might isolate the source. There are also plenty of anechoic chambers and Faraday cages available. Seems like it would be relatively easy to test the two prevalent theories. You may not be able to pinpoint the exact source, but you could at least tell whether the hum in a given region was acoustic or electromagnetic in origin.
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#9Is the Hum constant or sporadic?
I've had an occasional rumbling in my left ear. It increases when on a cellphone or skype. Certain voices can also trigger it.
I had assumed it was musculo-skeletal; it developed after a bike accident where I hurt the left part of my jaw.
But if their hum is constant, it's definitely not what I'm hearing.
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#10Maybe the mysterious noise is from one's own living body, like what you hear when you put your fingers in your ears.
In 1951, Cage visited the anechoic chamber at Harvard
University... "I heard two sounds, one high and one low.
When I described them to the engineer in charge, he
informed me that the high one was my nervous system in
operation, the low one my blood in circulation." Cage had
gone to a place where he expected total silence, and yet
heard sound.