My High Pitched Internal Friend /

[thepainterdoug]

I have for as long as I can remember, an elusive ever present high pitch that plays in my head.  It's actually hard to locate. It's in both ears, yet not in my ears.

I have found its pitch best I can on the piano at E.   bing..  
The second one above middle C.It's not singular but in harmonies of itself.  Like a chorus of crickets at a far distance.

Tinnitus can drive people crazy but I love this companion.  If it ever stopped, I'd feel disappointed. 

It's hard to describe. its close yet far, It's sweet, and reminds me of taking your fingernail and striking a nice thin wine glass gently just so it pings.

It's never not there. I concentrate on it mainly at night while ready to sleep. It gently wavers as if a bedsheet on a clothesline on a breezy day

ok a little crazy, but does anyone have something similar?

[jc71]

Hi Doug,

As I am reading this I am listening to my own high pitched "signal". I would say mine is far higher in frequency than any note on the piano. I don't notice it most of the time, but it is definitely there when I focus on it.

I would say the source of the sound appears to be either in the middle of my brain (like stereo headphones position the music there) or maybe even slightly above the middle of my head

JC

[Sue (Ayt)]

Yes! I have always had the same, Doug.
I always considered it a comfort too.
Another thing I have noticed that the intensity can increase at times, and I've always understood this as a message to pause and "pay attention," and that has served me well over the years.

[Spiral]

I have something like this too, I know nothing of music so I can't comment on the note.

It's not constant, it comes & goes, there seems to be no physical source or cause.

I've always taken it to be a sign that I'm not alone.

[shaberon]

Yes, I have three ringing notes. I do not really like them. They are mostly permanent since I was quite young, possibly forever.

What I "did" was perhaps a bit stranger. At the old house, we would get up in the dead of night, hearing something like the hum of a refrigerator, indoors and out, universal. I don't know if it really was something. After moving, I somehow "encased" it, and it became rather more pleasant, is internal, somewhat musical.


I always found tinnitus difficult, because, for example, it is a real enough noise that it drowns out conversation. I can't understand anything that quiet people say. And when focused, mine is about like having a jet parked beside your head. This other, musical motor-type sound, actually is relaxing, and does not make such a bad distraction.

[araucaria]

Yes, E sounds about right. I’d always put it down to smoggy airwaves...

[Sue (Ayt)]

At times, the sound may become extremely intense to the point of overwhelming. It can be a bit terrifying, but if you let go and go into it without fear, it can result in an OBE. It is almost like being in an intense electrical-like current.
(this can happen when we are in an alpha brainwave state.)

[Clear Light]

Posted by thepainterdoug (here)
ok a little crazy, but does anyone have something similar?

Ah, perhaps this is of interest inasmuch as it is from a Buddhist perspective but the sound I believe you are referring to actually has "universal" significance and is called "The Sound of Silence" eh ?

The Sound of Silence - The Ajahn Sumedho Anthology - Chapter 12 - The Sound of Silence (PDF)

Somebody referred to the sound of silence as a cosmic hum, a scintillating almost electric background sound. Even though it’s going on all the time we don’t generally notice it, but when your mind is open and relaxed you begin to hear it. I found this a very useful reference because in order to hear it, to notice it, you have to be in a relaxed state of awareness. When I describe this people try to find it. They go on a ten-day retreat trying to find the sound of silence, and then they say, ‘I can’t hear it, what’s wrong with me?’ They are trying to find this thing. But it’s not a thing you have to find – rather you just open to it: it’s the ability to listen with your mind in a receptive state, which makes it possible to hear the sound of silence. You’re not trying to solve any problems but just listening. You’re putting your mind into a state of receptive awareness. Awareness that is willing to receive whatever is, and one of the things you begin to recognize in that is the sound of silence.

Many years ago when I first "heard" it, I read something along the lines of how it's related to the "balancing" of the Brain's hemispheres which Meditation naturally brings about, at least insofar as I am aware

[JackMcThorn]

I have noticed this since 2o1o when I was in my early 3os. It is mostly in my Left ear, sometimes in the Right. At the time it seemed to get louder a little while after dinner and I would think maybe I took a little too much salt. But that didn't seem to make a difference.

I really wonder if it is Tinnitus. I had some hearing loss due to navy ships, loud music, and motorcycles but the loss seemed to have improved since I have not been around a lot of noise.

I sort of wondered if it was frequencies of mind control. I have had some relief from the pressures I formerly wrote about but I am still having nightmares and they do not seem to be my imagination. Given the significant difference between radio waves and sound waves, I am not so sure. I mean, can you imagine if the human ear could process radio waves into sound waves and vice versa? There are some nice videos of the human ear online that are phenomenal.

[Sue (Ayt)]

I came to the conclusion, for me, that tinnitus and this sound are different things.
I have had tinnitus, after some very loud rock concerts in the past, and that drove me nuts, whereas the comfort sound is my buddy.

[Casey Claar]

Posted by thepainterdoug (here)
I have for as long as I can remember, an elusive ever present high pitch that plays in my head.  It's actually hard to locate. It's in both ears, yet not in my ears.

I have found its pitch best I can on the piano at E.   bing..  
The second one above middle C.It's not singular but in harmonies of itself.  Like a chorus of crickets at a far distance.

Tinnitus can drive people crazy but I love this companion.  If it ever stopped, I'd feel disappointed. 

It's hard to describe. its close yet far, It's sweet, and reminds me of taking your fingernail and striking a nice thin wine glass gently just so it pings.

It's never not there. I concentrate on it mainly at night while ready to sleep. It gently wavers as if a bedsheet on a clothesline on a breezy day

ok a little crazy, but does anyone have something similar?

Oh yes!... I discovered it at age 9 and feel just as you, if it ever stopped surely I would die, I would feel so left/abandoned and all alone.

When I had my awakening the Inner sound began changing and doing all sorts of new things, like taking me out of body.

I video logged the whole thing as it was happening, as a sort of record.

(jump to 2:15)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oe4jiFYqLHc

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cji-licXA2U

¤=[Post Update]=¤

p.s.~

These videos were made back in November, 2009.

I was really no good at making the videos back then, it was a long, hard, slow learning curb for me. lol

[thepainterdoug]

wow all. what wonderful comments. all of them!! im amazed many feel a comfort to this sound as well

and the pitch E and octaves above e. like stereo headphones, upper middle of my head yet panning left and right. often in the rhythm of night crickets

Casey. loved your videos! i was thinking you could narrate books for audible! If my musical Hypnotta is ever turned into an audio book, your hired

[Ivanhoe]

Yep, been there forever.
Seems to get louder when my blood pressure goes up.
It could be hearing damage from loud music or machinery I've worked with, engine noise and the like, but I don't think so.
Like I said, it's been there forever.

[Harmony]

Yes Doug, I have this experience too, much like Sue explained above. I also pay attention to a sudden change, what was I just thinking or asking about that may have meaning to the change?

[Delight]

I think I have had a kind of tinnitus and it seems to helped by ivermectin that I take because I have other weird kinds of body feelings after working as a massage therapist....They are dull like a sort of cricket background. However I also have sudden changes in one ear pressure and also a loud kind of sound that I cannot associate with anything? IMO since I cannot associate them with anything and their randomness I wonder how they are useful?

[earthdreamer]

It is like having a singing lightbulb inside my head. I also get the pressure waves. I have sometimes likened the frequencies to a running tape that periodically catches its breath. Electronic frequencies can frequently exacerbate the pitch. Being in the woods does not seem to eliminate the high frequency pitch so it does feel internally connected to consciousness.
Recall Walt Whitman famous poem: “I sing the body electric”

Good to know others relate 💡

[shaberon]

Posted by Clear Light (here)

Ah, perhaps this is of interest inasmuch as it is from a Buddhist perspective but the sound I believe you are referring to actually has "universal" significance and is called "The Sound of Silence" eh ?


Even though it’s going on all the time we don’t generally notice it, but when your mind is open and relaxed you begin to hear it. I found this a very useful reference because in order to hear it, to notice it, you have to be in a relaxed state of awareness.

Yes, that is more like what I was getting at by the "newer" humming noise...I got that in my 40s. I was going to come and post that it moved up about 120 degrees, and then something distracted me and the tinnitus got louder and the hum slipped back almost due left.

In a meditational context, the popular deity Avalokiteshvara is sometimes said to have his etymology as Avalokita Svara, which would mean something like "Sound which is seen". And in at least one of his Sutras he is described as reaching enlightenment in a prior cosmos by meditating on the Sound.

I imagine there could be bell-like sounds which one could hear that might be pleasing, but these are totally different, tinnitus is irritating, while the hum is tranquilizing. Tinnitus rarely goes away for long, but the hum fades rather easily.

[wondering]

I have had a left ear tinnitus since about '96. At first it frightened me and I wanted it to stop, but I have gotten used to it. I can't say I welcome it, it amazes me that so many have, but I accept it. It fluctuates, and I really pay very little attention to it now. I have loved hearing the responses of others about this.

[jc71]

I reckon my sound is around 3,961Hz.

https://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/

JC

(edit: Or is it 7,949Hz. Hard to pinpoint it...)

[JackMcThorn]

Posted by jc71 (here)
I reckon my sound is around 3,961Hz.

From what I can tell mine is around 8kHz but it is a not the pure tone, it is a bit softer - like just a touch of static or fluctuation. I find I cannot distinguish too many of the tones over 11kHz which allows for some hearing loss.