Try looking into "The Hum". I have not experienced it personally but have read about it.
Heard about that a lot. Until now it was just one of those "Doesn't happen to me" things. :)
Would you like to hear a story that makes me sound a little bit insane?
Why yes, yes I would!
Ok.
So I am Theo, take this as seriously, or as not seriously as you please.
I have a problem with alcohol. I think this should be well known to any user of Poal.
I have been to rehab for alcoholism. I am a member of AA.
I believe that Alcoholism is actually a spiritual problem.
I know it sounds insane, but that that is what I truly believe.
I relapsed recently.
I am not happy about it, but whatever, it happens,I just have to pick myself up and not relapse again.
But I often put on conspiracy videos to go to sleep to.
Not because I believe in them, I just find other people's paranoia comforting to listen to.
It makes me feel less paranoid, listening to how paranoid other people are.
But I heard one video, during a relapse, where the speaker talked of tinnitus,
And said that tinnitus was not a medical symptom,
But it meant that spirits were around.
And I thought that was a weird thing to say
And I instantly heard a ringing in my ears.
And it won't go away. It seems like it came immediately afterwards.
And now I see things. Not actual things, but just shadows that move around me, when I am trying to go to sleep. Things that move when they aren't supposed to. To call them shadows would be incorrect. They aren't just on the wall, they move closer to me, and seem like they want to cuddle up with me. And that is when my tinnitus gets worse.
I don't know if this is real or not.
But it feels spooky as all Hell.
Whoa, thanks for sharing. I can only imagine how much that must suck.
From a purely medicinal point of view, I think tinnitus as a symptom can indicate various problems, making it dreadfully difficult to find the root cause(s).
From my experience with technology I know this: The problems hardest to diagnose are those having identical symptoms but multiple possible causes, sometimes compounded by intermittent occurrence.
Which is to say, you might be one of the sanest persons on the planet and it's not in your head. I think what you're experiencing can be the result of a few causes, including, but not limited to, hallucinations.
Although I consider myself to be a fairly realistic guy, I also believe that there are things out there we don't understand and which can't be explained using contemporary scientific knowledge.
Things to ponder: Does this happen constantly or does it depend on certain situations or environments? Does it influence your ability to function in day to day life? Have you spoken to someone about what you're experiencing in depth, not necessarily a pro but maybe a good friend you can confide in?
I really wish I could help and I think you should try to find someone to personally share this with, so you don't have to bear this on your own. You don't have to go it alone, which is what I call the "male disease". Not seeking help and bottling up the bad shit that happens to us in life.
You made a good first step in sharing here. I'm sure most people here are willing to support you in any way they can.
Check out the movie “The Sound of Silence” (story of a House Tuner in New York)
I have tinnitus as well because I'm a dope and thought being a below average club DJ was a great career path in my young 20's. It was a short lived dream but it gave me a gift that keeps on ringing... I also see black smokers with red eyes in the corners of my room. Not in my camper because that hasn't been damned I feel. My father's house I think is possessed not with a demon but with negative energy. Also I have terrible sleep apnea and that causes blackies to appear as well.
I've had tinnitus in my left ear since getting covid a couple years ago. Had a physical and they didn't see anything in my left ear like infection.
Theo, The same has happened to me and my family. We get the ringing and we hear music, see shadows, things move/ disappear and reappear. Unexplainable loud noises, our kids have heard and seen also. We are not crazy, we both (Wife and I) have been through trials I will say, Spiritual trials. Im very analytical so my first response is getting a rational explanation for these events, I cant explain many. I started documenting the events, In a log. The log will help you know you are not crazy, Helps to piece it together. I think we are being woken up, something is helping us from the other side. I know it sounds crazy, we dont tell anyone this stuff. I must say, there is darkness that tries to interfere/intervene. I too have recently quit after many years/decades of alcoholism. Last day was 4/11/2024. Feels longer honestly, I had to look up the date, feels like 2.5 months.I will say to write it down, get a feel for whats there, trust your intuition, your gut.
Pray to God, ask Jesus for help. The demons that caused you to drink your life away are real, and you’re in a spiritual fight. I’m praying for you now, you can feel it if you open your heart. Add your own prayers and seek help and guidance. These things are real, you’re not paranoid. I’m currently in a house of God and will ask the congregation to pray for you at the prayer meeting coming up. If I were in your neck of the woods I’d invite you to join us.
Try Spectroid (Android). In Audio set to Unprocessed audio source, FFT size to 8192. Then on the main display you can pinch/zoom and scroll to center around 70 Hz. Be sure your phone isn't filtering it out by checking near an AC compressor or other low-frequency source.
Fuck I dealt with that for YEARS, due to the building and cars, or geography or something. I had to start generating low frequency to mask it (for years I used a bathroom ventilation fan with a weight attached to make it unbalanced, so it wobbled badly, then moved to a subwoofer and some brown noise, which I use to this day during sleep).
Got Spectroid installed since years but hadn't looked into the settings for probably as long. :) I tried with Audacity and generated a 50 Hz tone on a BT speaker. Spectroid picked it fine, also its harmonics. So at least I know the microphone in my phone is capable enough.
Thanks for the tip with the brown noise. I noticed today that other sounds seem to effectively mask the hum while watching a video. It would be "gone" when people were talking but immediately return when there was silence. To have to hear this for years? Enough to drive one crazy.
Did you ever find the source?
First for me it wasn't a continuous tone, but really low frequency stuff (say below 50 Hz), like vehicles in the distance, but continuous (people idling cars outside would drive me nuts). Never found any solution or source. I now think it's just resonance of the land/buildings. Maybe it was some kind of sensitivity to it. Maybe something physiological in my body actually generating that near my ears. Where I live now it's quiet. I can still hear vehicles a block away when they pull up and stop, or idle, but it doesn't drive me nuts anymore.
For the brown noise I use an old mp3 player with some noise tracks (used Audacity to generate an 8-hour track to convert to mp3).
There are cheap FFT spectrometers on eBay and Aliexpress. They’ll do the job.
The ones I saw and the TinySA, which I own, are only for RF, not for low end Audio (20Hz to maybe 400Hz?).
Got any pointers?
I figured I'd be best off with a decent mike and an FFT of the recording.
If you like soldering there's a Velleman K8098 Audio Analyzer Kit for 40~50$.
You can also use free Audio Analyzer apps on the crApple or jewgle store wth an external microphone.
Wow...wow....Velleman is still using those ancient LCDs.
I had one of their little handheld 10MHz scopes. Great little portable device. It had one of those LCDs and it was a decade old when I got it. Did the same thing they all do and the front end blew out one day and that's all she wrote.
There are cheap FFT spectrometers on eBay and Aliexpress. They’ll do the job.
FFT becomes very inaccurate at very low frequencies due to the nature of FFT itself. You can only rely on FFT as a presence detector for low frequencies and not really do any measurement or analysis with it. The cheaper the FFT spectrometer, the worse it will be at low frequency analysis. 70 Hz is already in the range of high error for non-scientific instrument grade FFT.
I would probably go with a standard waveform measurement (oscilloscope) using a good low frequency microphone made for recording kick/bass drums. Use an active parametric equalizer with a 12 or 24 db roll off and cut all frequencies above 2X the frequency you're looking to measure. This will get rid of the junk higher frequencies if you just want the raw base-frequency hum. Ditch the parametric EQ if you want to determine if the hum has any higher harmonics.
The microphone you use will need a means to collect sound better if the hum is very low in volume. A parabolic dish with the microphone located at the focal point will help greatly, but it will make the microphone directional which will make it difficult to locate the source direction since low frequencies are hard to determine spatially due to their long wavelengths. The reflector dish can also color the sound but less of an issue at low frequencies. Experimentation is key here.
lol You're gonna scare the shit outta him. A free audio analyzer app on a phone with a (usb/lightning) microphone to walk around and spot the source/origin of that noise will do. :)
lol You're gonna scare the shit outta him. A free audio analyzer app on a phone with a (usb/lightning) microphone to walk around and spot the source/origin of that noise will do. :)
Yeah this setup can get quite pricey, but it would be necessary for proper analysis of the sound. His phone might do alright, but it seems like he already gave that a go and didn't have good results. Might be able to buy a cheap used Tascam or Zoom portable digital recorder on eBay and get better pickup. My Tascam DR-70D picks up a lot of things I wouldn't have expected it to with its built in mics. I got mine cheap on eBay ($25) because it had a broken headphone jack which I fixed in under an hour.
Thanks for the writeup. Might save me a lot of time if this persists. The hum has subsided, became intermittent and seems to be gone for now. I want to be prepared for when it returns.
Good idea re the scope, bought a Rigol 16 bit one some weeks ago, should do the trick. I have a Shure Beta 58A microphone left over from a project that didn't materialize. Not ideal but I'll start there, before investing into a different microphone better suited for low frequencies.
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Thanks for the writeup. Might save me a lot of time if this perists. The hum has subsided, became intermittent and seems to be gone for now. I want to be prepared for when it returns.
Those pesky aliens keep moving around. Hard to find them that way. :)
Good idea re the scope, bought a Rigol 16 bit one some weeks ago, should do the trick. I have a Shure Beta 58A microphone left over from a project that didn't materialise. Not ideal but I'll start there, before investing into a different microphone better suited for low frequencies.
The Shure 58A should do much better than most common microphones. With the scope's sensitivity you should be able to see something show up. It will also help you get a fix on the frequency/periodicity of the hum and the scope may have math functions to help isolate or enhance it depending on the model. This setup should do well if the hum returns.
Here's some interdasting shit from (((jewpedia))):
Thanks. Watched this a couple of weeks ago: https://youtu.be/zy_ctHNLan8
I recommend it.
I experienced this kind of phenomenon but only when I used to sleep in the same room as my internet router. When I would unplug the router the effect would go away, so obviously it was a pretty quick fix but it always struck me as bizarre that the router would do that to me.
Are there any 5g towers or ongoing internet fuckeries in your area?
Not that I'm aware of but I'll keep it in mind. Don't think its my router because I took my scooter and drove about a mile away and it was still there.
Thanks a lot!
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