Thread: Have You Heard the Hum?

Constant tinnitus here, post vietnam, with the level of the sound increasing over the years. It sounds like that noise you hear just when a passenger jet aircraft is coming to a stop and the engines have been cut and the pitch of the noise goes high for just a few seconds before winding down.

Sadly, I have had V.A. Doc's tell me that fighter pilots have had tinnitus so loud that suicide was their personal remedy to the affliction. Now that spooked me when it was told to me.

No rumbling as yet but I may not mind the distraction if it began.

or brass tumbler.

I was on a job in North NJ busting the heads off rivets with a 'hell dog' (pneumatic rivet gun) and driving them out with same. Replacing the rivets with 490 high strength bolts. The harder you push on the hell dog (nicknamed that because of the noise) the harder it hits. Once we were driving a rivet that was through three plies of iron and three of us were pushing on the rivet driver. It was so loud that I actually felt as if I had needles being stuck in my ears for a few seconds before the rivet finally let go. No ear protection in those days. After all, we were ironworkers.

So I was home on the second floor of a two story house. I heard birds chirping and thought I would telephone the landlord and tell him that birds must have infiltrated the attic through the eaves. The chirping was constant, as if it was the chicks calling their mother to feed them. I didn't call then but got in my new 1983 Chevy S-10 pickup and was driving up the Belleville turnpike. I was stopped at a red light and the birds were chirping to beat the band so I suddenly knew that it wasn't anything in the attic.

The birds go with me wherever I am, and they never cease. This is not a big deal as I tune them out unless it is very quiet, or I specifically think of them. The 'hum' is not like that. The hum is only in my condo, mostly the bedroom and adjacent rooms. It is not constant, comes and goes. Sometimes for weeks or months, years even. Point being, if it was tinnitus I think it would not be limited to that time/place.

Once, after a couple of years of dealing with this off and on, having no success at finding a local cause, I googled it and found it was a worldwide phenomenon I was relieved. I read an article on the hum where an expert in the physiology of the ear/hearing said that when we hear an unfamiliar sound we can isolate it unconsciously and turn the volume of it up within our ear, or turn it down.

The past few nights I have been fooling with that with some success. Kind like how I stopped worrying and learned to live with the hum.

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Your all old.
Its the delicate sound of thunder (its a base pressure wave).
Silence if you ever go off grid, is deafening.
You hearing things , tells me you all live in the city/populated area.
Go into wilderness, and document what you hear. True silence is only in Space. Sound only travels in a medium.
But you all knew that. Hum means all us smart guys are still alive.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I was on a job in North NJ busting the heads off rivets with a 'hell dog' (pneumatic rivet gun) and driving them out with same. Replacing the rivets with 490 high strength bolts. The harder you push on the hell dog (nicknamed that because of the noise) the harder it hits. Once we were driving a rivet that was through three plies of iron and three of us were pushing on the rivet driver. It was so loud that I actually felt as if I had needles being stuck in my ears for a few seconds before the rivet finally let go. No ear protection in those days. After all, we were ironworkers.

So I was home on the second floor of a two story house. I heard birds chirping and thought I would telephone the landlord and tell him that birds must have infiltrated the attic through the eaves. The chirping was constant, as if it was the chicks calling their mother to feed them. I didn't call then but got in my new 1983 Chevy S-10 pickup and was driving up the Belleville turnpike. I was stopped at a red light and the birds were chirping to beat the band so I suddenly knew that it wasn't anything in the attic.

The birds go with me wherever I am, and they never cease. This is not a big deal as I tune them out unless it is very quiet, or I specifically think of them. The 'hum' is not like that. The hum is only in my condo, mostly the bedroom and adjacent rooms. It is not constant, comes and goes. Sometimes for weeks or months, years even. Point being, if it was tinnitus I think it would not be limited to that time/place.

Once, after a couple of years of dealing with this off and on, having no success at finding a local cause, I googled it and found it was a worldwide phenomenon I was relieved. I read an article on the hum where an expert in the physiology of the ear/hearing said that when we hear an unfamiliar sound we can isolate it unconsciously and turn the volume of it up within our ear, or turn it down.

The past few nights I have been fooling with that with some success. Kind like how I stopped worrying and learned to live with the hum.

So I asked my wife to Hum.... So I could go to sleep. Soundly I may add

Originally Posted by lz6

Constant tinnitus here, post vietnam, with the level of the sound increasing over the years. It sounds like that noise you hear just when a passenger jet aircraft is coming to a stop and the engines have been cut and the pitch of the noise goes high for just a few seconds before winding down.

Sadly, I have had V.A. Doc's tell me that fighter pilots have had tinnitus so loud that suicide was their personal remedy to the affliction. Now that spooked me when it was told to me.

No rumbling as yet but I may not mind the distraction if it began.

I can relate to the tinnitus, they give me a check for all the hearing I lost, depression almost took me years ago, Now I have to sit by and watch my country destroyed from within by Communist Liberal Progressives, Damn, Just Damn. And YES I hear the hummmm, the chemtrails and the HAARP when running to move a weather front make the Humm.

Originally Posted by ultrasoundguy2003

Your all old.
Its the delicate sound of thunder (its a base pressure wave).
Silence if you ever go off grid, is deafening.
You hearing things , tells me you all live in the city/populated area.
Go into wilderness, and document what you hear. True silence is only in Space. Sound only travels in a medium.
But you all knew that. Hum means all us smart guys are still alive.

When you say Delicate sound of Thunder, are you referring to the Pink Floyd album? After going to their concerts, I heard a hum for days...

I already have tinnitus to the point that I must turn on a radio at night to sleep; if I start hearing this "hum", I am blaming you guys.

I have tinnitus. I am aware of it when I read the word tinnitus. The hum and my tinnitus are different.