The Hum - or: I'm officially a freak now

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Wezil
I suspect an internal cause.

Something along these lines (from wiki):

The tensor tympani muscle making the eardrum tremble
As of 2005, a scientific hypothesis suggests the Hum originates on the eardrums of affected individuals by the tensor tympani muscle trembling. (The tensor tympani is a muscle within the inner ear for tightening the eardrum.) The 40-page hypothesis can be read in German on the pages of the German Association for Research about the Hum, IGZAB (InteressenGemeinschaft Zur Aufklärung des Brummtonphänomens). See: http://www.IGZAB.de . See de:Brummton-Phänomen.

That doesn't explain why it's only trembling in certain places.

[Wezil]

I can't read German.

[DanS]

You might try to clean out any ear wax that you might have.

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by Lancer
...or that when you get older it will just go away.

it seems to increase with age, according to the statistics of the interest group.

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by DanS
You might try to clean out any ear wax that you might have.

No ear wax used in years. Last time I used it was two years ago, right when I was in Seville two zears ago because the noise of my French appartment colleagues and the music of the Moroccan family above made me crazy. Had my ears cleaned afterwards because it started to ache.

edit: or does ear wax mean that stuff I produce myself?
Anyway: THE SOUND DOES NOT ACCOMPANY ME EVERYWHERE, IT´S RELATED TO PLACES. Sorry to use caps, but really, I´ve made that clear that by now.

[Lancer]

Just for research you might consider carrying a map of europe and one of the world in the years to come. As you determine hot or cold hum spots color them in on the map with highlighter. Using this method you could

1) determine if there's a pattern. I believe there likely will be a pattern and what it turns out to be could help in understanding what it is and perhaps what it's from and where.

2) make you an analyst of the hum rather than just a victim of it.

3) establish a chain of evidence.

4) determine whether hot and cold spots change intensity over the years or even reverse themselves. Perhaps you might eventually be able to predict where and when the hum will be the worst and avoid these places.

I'd also note all sorts of stuff such as elevation using a topographical map and the weather on days of both strong hum and quiet.

Try to come up with some way to quantify the hum. Get a white noise generator and see at what volume you can hear the white noise and at what volume it is washed out by the hum. This way you could assign numbers to the volume and create an area intensity chart during your life's travels. Put #s to the hum, put it under a microscope.

Anything you can think of.

NASA's daily sunspot activity report, earthquake activity...

Have you tried flipping off the breaker in your home to kill all electrical devices? You're aware that some light fixtures hum? ...but then of course you could determine the source.

From wiki..."On 15th November 2006 Dr Tom Moir, of the University of Massey in Auckland, New Zealand, made a recording of the Auckland Hum and has published it on the university's website[1][2]. The captured hum's power spectral density peaks at a frequency of 56 hertz[3]."

[DanS]

Originally posted by Wernazuma III
edit: or does ear wax mean that stuff I produce myself?
Anyway: THE SOUND DOES NOT ACCOMPANY ME EVERYWHERE, IT´S RELATED TO PLACES. Sorry to use caps, but really, I´ve made that clear that by now.

Stop shouting!

It means the ear wax that you produce yourself. Ear wax can cause all sorts of acoustical and balance effects.

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by DanS


Stop shouting!

It means the ear wax that you produce yourself. Ear wax can cause all sorts of acoustical and balance effects.

So, without shouting, please review reading comprehension. The hum is place related, it has nothing to do with my ears.

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by Lancer
Just for research you might consider carrying a map of europe and one of the world in the years to come. As you determine hot or cold hum spots color them in on the map with highlighter. Using this method you could

1) determine if there's a pattern. I believe there likely will be a pattern and what it turns out to be could help in understanding what it is and perhaps what it's from and where.

2) make you an analyst of the hum rather than just a victim of it.

3) establish a chain of evidence.

4) determine whether hot and cold spots change intensity over the years or even reverse themselves. Perhaps you might eventually be able to predict where and when the hum will be the worst and avoid these places.

I'd also note all sorts of stuff such as elevation using a topographical map and the weather on days of both strong hum and quiet.

Try to come up with some way to quantify the hum. Get a white noise generator and see at what volume you can hear the white noise and at what volume it is washed out by the hum. This way you could assign numbers to the volume and create an area intensity chart during your life's travels. Put #s to the hum, put it under a microscope.

Anything you can think of.

NASA's daily sunspot activity report, earthquake activity...

Have you tried flipping off the breaker in your home to kill all electrical devices? You're aware that some light fixtures hum? ...but then of course you could determine the source.

From wiki..."On 15th November 2006 Dr Tom Moir, of the University of Massey in Auckland, New Zealand, made a recording of the Auckland Hum and has published it on the university's website[1][2]. The captured hum's power spectral density peaks at a frequency of 56 hertz[3]."

Great ideas, but I don't travel that much, it's just now. I'm no technical expert, so I'd have to divert too much time and money into devices which in turn would make me obsessed. I think my way of dealing with the problem is rather to get accustomed to it, like people with tinitus learn to live with it. I'd be willing to do my part in data gathering for the hum-organization, but it is dissolving, it seems...
It seems to be pretty bad right where I live and I won't move, in all probability. And I'm sure, it's not related to electricity in my home, electric buzzes are quite different; and it's in several places in town... It might have something to do with the power grid itself, or with mobile phone frequencies or whatever, but it's not my ear and no specific domestic device.

[DanS]

Even if place-related, it could have something to do with your ears. My reading comprehension is just fine, and certainly better than your graciousness.

[Dinner]

The humming is the noise the alien larva make as they're growing inside your brain. Soon they will hatch and ooze out from your ear.

[Lancer]

With humanity, sadly, the unknown only becomes reality if we ourselves each individually experience it.

DanS, consider that if you get driven nuts by a hum you might not feel too gracious yourself...

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by Lancer
With humanity, sadly, the unknown only becomes reality if we ourselves each individually experience it.

Yes, quite amazing. Now I know it from both sides. And it´s scary that I get erally odd looks when mentioning that phenomenon until I made clear in a 10 minute defense that I don't believe in anything paranormal related to it...

@DanS: Sorry, I didn't mean to be hostile, I'm just a bit exhausted by the work I'm doing here.