Do Any Of You Hear The Hum?

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I believe I do and it drives me absolutely nuts. It is incessant whenever I hear it and there is nothing I can do to stop it. I hear if for months at a time and then it stops and then I hear it again. It makes me want to have meltdowns 24/7. Does anyone else experience this? If you don't know what the hum is, here is a video about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZSFI3vRabo

I hear it

I am so glad that you understand what I am talking about. When I tell most people they look at me like I am crazy. Does it drive you nuts too?

I just started hearing it again a couple of days ago. It had stopped for a couple of months but now it is back.

No, I don't. I occasionally get unexplained, high-pitched sounds though, which I attribute to tinnitus.

I didn't hear anything when he played what it sounds like. Even with the volume up all the way I didn't hear anything.

I don't. I hear a constant high-pitched noise that does sometimes lead to meltdowns and overall drive me crazy when there's not enough "background noise" to cover it, but I think that's tinnitus. I remember when I was little, I associated the noise with being alone, but I realize now that was just because that's really the only time it was quiet enough for me to hear the noise.

I have tinnitus. It's very quiet where I am right now, and because I'm talking about it, I can hear the high pitched ringing in both ears and it's pretty loud. I have read that instead of ringing others hear humming.

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Dang. I don't hear it IRL, but I definitely heard an ominous low pitched drone it that film clip. Everyone differs slightly in the frequency ranges that they can hear. I cant hear some high pitched tones others could in an audio/radio class can hear.

Some years ago you began to hear about the "Hum" as a thing in Taos New Mexico. I put it down to what Perot said about NAFTA. New Mexico is on the border, so I assumed that the Hum must be the "sucking sound" of jobs going to Mexico!

But they hear it in Britain and elsewhere on the planet. So it cant be that.

I have very strong tinnitus also, ever since I was a little kid. But the Hum is louder than my tinnitus. It overpowers a lot. When I hear it, it is constant 24/7 nonstop and nothing helps. The only thing I can do to help is to try to play music louder than I hear the hum so the music has to be pretty loud. But my music is very mellow so even if it is loud, it id not loud enough to bother the neighbors. And sometimes I use headphones with my music but they can be very painful for me.

Ezra I have heard that many people are not capable of hearing the hum so perhaps you are not capable of hearing that frequency. Be thankful for that. It can literally drive you insane.

I live in the eastern part of the US in the mid Atlantic. We call it northern banana belt.

When I played the video without headphones, it just sounded like wind or something to me, but it sounded very different with them on.

I have only heard the Hum on YouTube. I am thankful for that, the vibration feel of really deep, low noise is awful. It almost feels like I'll shake apart.

It is truly maddening. I literally have to fight constant meltdowns. I totally understand the person who committed suicide because of this. You hear it for months at a time. It is very difficult to work and function with this added to the regular sensory overload that we have to deal with on a daily basis.

Yeah, I can easily believe that sound can drive someone bonkers. It's the kind of sound that is almost felt more than heard.

I heard of this some years ago on YouTube, but I couldn't know if it was real or not.

It's strange that it goes on for months and then stops. When did it start the first time? Have you always heard this on and off? For how long does it stop? Are there places you can't (or at least never have) heard it?