Hey, I thought I\'d post this topic to see if anyone here has been having the same experiences I have, and to just hear about weird occurances that happen to the other people on this board.
Have you ever heard the "Sound of silence"? I don\'t know what it is, but I\'ve been hearing it for as long as I can remember.. even though everyone else I talk to can\'t. It\'s always there, but only really noticible when everything else is dead silent. It\'s like a high pitched humming that I can never get to quit, but seems to grow in intensity the more I focus on actually trying to hear it. It gets so bad sometimes, that I can\'t sleep or think... it\'s f*cking crazy. Even ear-plugs don\'t do anything to block it out. But when I hear the even the smallest sound, then the humming dies down to it\'s normal, almost non-existant, volume.
For awhile, I thought something was just wrong with my ears.. but every doctor I had look at them said absolutely nothing was wrong. Really, it could be one of a hundred things, and not necessarrily paranormal. I just figured it was something the doctors overlooked until I saw an episode of Sighting where there were other people who heard the same sound I have been.
They said it was caused by something geological.. since the sound increases the deeper you go underground in a cavern. (Which is true, it did get much worse for me when I was in Rainbow Caverns). But I think it\'s also got something to do with electricity, since I can hear that pretty easily and it sounds about the same, but a bit lower pitched. For example, if I walk into a room with a TV set to a black channel with no picture or static (To where you can\'t tell visually if it\'s on or not) I can instantly tell weither it\'s on or not just by hearing the electricty. I dunno if you guys can do the same thing, but most all of the people I\'ve tried this experiment with couldn\'t tell if the TV was on or off until they tried to change the channel.
So my best guess was that it\'s got something to do with the electromagnetic fields of the earth or maybe some kind of resonance going on inside my eardrums. It sounds reasonable.. but I found this phenomena kinda interesting.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/space_symphony_000323.htmlI find a lot of similarities between what I hear and the earth hum their talking about on this page. Other sites on the net have said this same phenomenon causes stronger humming noises in the winter.. which is pretty much spot on since the hum I hear does get.. I dunno if louder is right word.. but it\'s more persistant and a lot stronger.
If it\'s the same effect, then most experts agree that I shouldn\'t be able to hear the hum at all since it\'s well below the range of sounds audible to the human ear. Since it\'s not really one sound, but more a concophany(sp?) of two or more sounds at different octives.. maybe I\'m just hearing the high ends of it?
So anyhow, that\'s my little corner of the "paranormal". Anyone else have weird, recurring, experiences they\'d like to share?