Have You Heard the Hum?

A couple, or maybe a few, years ago I began hearing a low hum, kind of like a pulsating bass note in my bedroom when I would lie down to go to sleep. It became quite annoying and would make it difficult to fall asleep, and would sometimes wake me out of sleep. This went one for weeks or months and suddenly stopped as abruptly as it had begun.

Months went by and then 'the hum' returned. I had walked around the neighborhood in the morning, in the middle of the night, seeking a possible source. I had asked all of my neighbors in the condo community, my building, adjacent buildings ........ no one heard it but me.

I eliminated electrical transformers, waste water pumping stations, my own blood pressure/heartbeat. Eliminated my tinnutus, which never ceases and manifests as birds furiously chirping. It cannot be heard outside. It is strictly an indoor phenomenon.

It had stopped for a long time, a year or more, and began again maybe a month or two ago. It is not 'on' 24 hours a day, begins at 10:30 or so PM and may or may not continue through the morning. I could still hear it upon waking this morning, but by the time I got back from my walk at 11AM it had stopped.

I googled about it finally and found I am far from alone, and no, I'm not going crazy, at least not yet. :rolleyes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum

A long, maybe too long article on the phenomenon ........

https://newrepublic.com/article/132128/maddening-sound

So the guy made the Deming box and didn't try it?!?!?!

Jimmy, you can weld. Make your own Deming box and get to the bottom of this.

I love my custom fit ear plugs.

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Originally Posted by RezDog

I love my custom fit ear plugs.

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They may help with a hum, but do nothing for tinnitus. I have the same " bird/cricket chirp" Jimmy suffers.

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I love my custom fit ear plugs.

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Won't help. It is sort of like sitting at a traffic light in a line of cars and someone has one of those sub-woofers with the bass notes that travel through everyone's car. I have ear muff types hearing protectors for shooting and tried them. No luck. If it is bad I turn on a floor fan which sort of drowns it out.

It's a long distance call from your home planet.:hmmm::rolleyes:

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We hear the hum,
Yes its real.
Near as I can figure its a compilation of Interstate, plus trains, planes, and motors in general.
Lastly and I went to a therapist because I thought maybe I was going to lose my mind.
He added the hum of lights and their additives affect.
Then came up the topic when the hum becomes a radio sound just below full hearing, commentators, jazz music??
Never can be sure. Get up look around no source.
My only saving grace. Ok I am admitting this. I turn to my wife and ask, "Can you hear that?" Describe what your hearing before I tell you what I am hearing. Everytime she is hearing the same thing. We mainly perceive it at night . while lying in bed. We do notice the absence of it when we go away from civilization.

The humming sound resonates due the the vacuum formed by the lack of solid matter between the right & left auris externa. :beer2:

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The humming sound resonates due the the vacuum formed by the lack of solid matter between the right & left auris externa. :beer2:

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Huh? What you say?

Its the sound of the hammer, anvil and stapes working together. Little workshop in my head. External Auditory Meatus .
Therapist dude says "document frequency and correlate with your stress levels, does increase stressors and hum coincide?"

Jimmy, I can mail you a custom made tin foil hat :rofl2:

Oh the radio, I hear the radio that is not quite distinguishable as to what it actually is because it is too quiet, and does not actually exist. Fortunately not that often, it is super annoying.

Watch for hypertension, hypertension can cause tinnitus

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinnitus

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Originally Posted by Thaeris

Watch for hypertension, hypertension can cause tinnitus

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinnitus

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Thanks, I've got tinnitus, but I don't have hypertension. My tinnitus manifests itself as birds chirping, not low bass notes.

FWW!
I have noticed the hum for a few years.
I live across the street from an electrical power dam. The shaking is especially dependent on ground water amounts. The house will shake my bed during the common hours stated above...much like having a large diesel truck idling in the driveway. ! removed a retaining wall and that was when the physical vibrations began...or I became more aware of them. It was bad enough one late evening that my guests said WTF is that. Funny thing is..when the water is so high that it comes over the top of the dam there is no problem regardless of the greater noise. White noise??
Could also be that part of the problem is the turbines getting out of sync. Like the sound of the engines on an old WWII DC-3.
~Richard!

The voices in my head head usually drown it out.............

But seriously I heard read about this in various parts of the country, very strange

I hear the hum, it is not a monotone, but contains random rumbles.
Why do I only hear it at night?
I'm scared

I was woken this morning by a strange noise. Like a series of bubbles exploding in my ears.
Took a while to find it but it was the sliding mirror on the bathroom cupboard, vibrating. I closed it & it stopped. I hope the under house plumbing is not playing up again. :(

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Originally Posted by Thaeris

Watch for hypertension, hypertension can cause tinnitus

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinnitus

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+1 you beat me to it.

This thread is oddly timed. A few weeks ago i woke up to what i thought was pipes vibrating in the walls. Ive heard it a few times since then early in the morning before i get up. I know it isnt the pipes because i know what the pipes in this apartment sound like.

Now im freaked out about it.

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Now im freaked out about it.

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This is part of life and I am sorry to say that once the damage is done there is nothing left to do but live with it......

I regularly hear someone walking around upstairs in high heels.

I live on the top floor. And there's no roof access in my building.

Not to sound silly but a couple things come to mind.

Termites can create a rumble eating your home.

Is it in tune with droughts or overly wet seasons?

Any mining or fracking in your area?

Near a fault line?

Constant tone tinnitus here. 2 different tones going all the time. Never hear the hum though. I seen people have all over the world.

https://youtu.be/nVi7LG7vXS8

Tons of these vids out there :<0)

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Originally Posted by 32t

This is part of life and I am sorry to say that once the damage is done there is nothing left to do but live with it......

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Now that i know its a thing i want to hear it again. Maybe i wont wonder so much where its coming from.. Ill just think to myself 'Its the noise from the straight razor forum'.

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Originally Posted by 32t

This is part of life and I am sorry to say that once the damage is done there is nothing left to do but live with it......

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Relate to that. After Nam I'm half deaf and tinnitus fills what I can't hear. It can get annoying at times when its louder than people talk. Har!

Another thought is sometimes water pipes/lines can produce some bazaar rumblings.

I would think you recognize 60 cycle hums so not electrical.

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Originally Posted by nun2sharp

They may help with a hum, but do nothing for tinnitus. I have the same " bird/cricket chirp" Jimmy suffers.

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+1 for no effect on the tinnitus the ear plugs or muffs just make it worse as it is all you can hear. this I know 1st hand

I had fairly bad Tinnitus in the early '90's from a band I was in at the time, I took a few years off of very loud playing and it actually improved. I still have it but I don't have to run a fan at night to kill the sound like I used to.

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This is part of life and I am sorry to say that once the damage is done there is nothing left to do but live with it......

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Maybe a neighbor has a rock tumbler? Supposed to just run it at night simce it takes 10 or so hours and can be absurdly loud?

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. :shrug:

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.

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

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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. :shrug:

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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.

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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.

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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...
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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.