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Argh, just about two hours ago I figured out that I'm a freak since November.
At the end of November I noticed a weird sound at night, a continuous humming, a bit like the bus motor when it's at the station right below our house. Yet that "bus" didn't go away after some seconds, it stayed.
I continued to hear the hum esp. at night, after 11PM, and early in the morning in the following weeks, while my g/f only said she could "possibly" hear it on the toilet. My brother, who visited us over Xmas, said he could also hear it a few times and once disturbed him when sleeping. Others didn't notice the hum at all.
I even bought an MP3 player (yes, I didn't have one before, maybe I was a freak already) just to be able to get to sleep better. I lept a day somehwere else, just in case, and it was not there. It's not me, no low frequency tinnitus (which would have been odd anyway, since the sound comes from outside) or hallucination, I was relieved. But what is the source? I suspected to be especially receptive to infrasound and thought about the vibration of some heating system or from the Sauna ventilation of my neighbours (we live in a flat). Or could it be electromagnetic fields, cell phones, WLAN - OMG, go get the tinfoil hat!
It seemed to be a bit better in January but yesterday it returned with might and now it disturbed me even during the day. So I googled "infrasound" and came across "The hum", a mysterious phenomenon that made it to the X-Files (The Taos hum), which seems to occur preferently at some locations (Baden Württemberg, Taos...). The descriptions fit my own experience perfectly, it seems only a very low percentage of people are able to registrate the sound, and no one can locate a source. But all the similar independent cases indicate that there must be a real basis for it.
I feel better now, since there are also others who experience the same. But I also feel bad because I'm one of small population that can sense this - I feel like I see ghosts, albeit real ghosts. I think my disposition to this is related to a generally high sensitivity when it comes to noise. My ENT doctor attested me a very fine receptorium. A TV in another flat can drive me crazy when other people are able to "turn off".
But now I'm a freak (with a sleeping problem).
At the end of November I noticed a weird sound at night, a continuous humming, a bit like the bus motor when it's at the station right below our house. Yet that "bus" didn't go away after some seconds, it stayed.
I continued to hear the hum esp. at night, after 11PM, and early in the morning in the following weeks, while my g/f only said she could "possibly" hear it on the toilet. My brother, who visited us over Xmas, said he could also hear it a few times and once disturbed him when sleeping. Others didn't notice the hum at all.
I even bought an MP3 player (yes, I didn't have one before, maybe I was a freak already) just to be able to get to sleep better. I lept a day somehwere else, just in case, and it was not there. It's not me, no low frequency tinnitus (which would have been odd anyway, since the sound comes from outside) or hallucination, I was relieved. But what is the source? I suspected to be especially receptive to infrasound and thought about the vibration of some heating system or from the Sauna ventilation of my neighbours (we live in a flat). Or could it be electromagnetic fields, cell phones, WLAN - OMG, go get the tinfoil hat!
It seemed to be a bit better in January but yesterday it returned with might and now it disturbed me even during the day. So I googled "infrasound" and came across "The hum", a mysterious phenomenon that made it to the X-Files (The Taos hum), which seems to occur preferently at some locations (Baden Württemberg, Taos...). The descriptions fit my own experience perfectly, it seems only a very low percentage of people are able to registrate the sound, and no one can locate a source. But all the similar independent cases indicate that there must be a real basis for it.
I feel better now, since there are also others who experience the same. But I also feel bad because I'm one of small population that can sense this - I feel like I see ghosts, albeit real ghosts. I think my disposition to this is related to a generally high sensitivity when it comes to noise. My ENT doctor attested me a very fine receptorium. A TV in another flat can drive me crazy when other people are able to "turn off".
But now I'm a freak (with a sleeping problem).
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