The "Hum"

[ikalugin]

2% of people around the globe seem to be able to hear it. That translates into milliosn and millions around the globe.

Or only 2 percent, which can be attributed either to biological or neurological or psycological causes.
If in your case you are positive that the cause is not biological, I would suggest checking the other two.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by ikalugin

Or only 2 percent, which can be attributed either to biological or neurological or psycological causes.
If in your case you are positive that the cause is not biological, I would suggest checking the other two.

Again, you cannot record hallucinations on magnetic tape - as a physical sound recording. But such recordings have been done.

My father hears it, too - and on several occasions when I was with my parenbts we noticed the same time, the same second, when the sound went on or off. My mother heards nothing.

People not knowing the Hum often dismiss it as a medical issue of any kind. But they can only do so by ignoring a whole lot of facts that speak against that. Many sufferers from the Hum often have an odyssey through the medical labs and university clinics behind them. Without result. And yes, some of them have a tinnitus - as many as to be found amongst the non-humming population. The vulnerability to schizophrenia, and drug abuse, also seem to be not higher or lower than with the ordinary population. Accoustic hallucinations like this however are very untypical for schizophrenia, btw.

Maybe it is a Russian experiment, an attack by antennas transmitting behaviour-altering wave patterns to unsettle Western populations and raise the level of nervousness in an attempt to increase the chance for civil unrest and so to destabilize Western countries. Such experiments were done by Russians and Americans in the 50s and 60s.

[ikalugin]

Did you ever consider paranoia?

Maybe it is a Russian experiment, an attack by antennas transmitting behaviour-altering wave patterns to unsettle Western populations and raise the level of nervousness in an attempt to increase the chance for civil unrest and so destabilize Western countries. Such experiments were done by Russians and Americans in the 50s and 60s.

I told that story about the two crazy men for a reason. But if you want we could study how much energy one would need to create this ambient noise.

p.s. you can create a physics model. I mean you know the frequency range, human aural theshhold and the area/time coverage so you can calculate sonic wave energy in that noise.

[Skybird]

I did not consider paranoia. I also excluded alien abduction, beer intoxication and too much masturbation having rotten my brain.

Stop it.

[ikalugin]

Originally Posted by Skybird

I did not consider paranoia. I also excluded alien abduction, beer intoxication and too much masturbation having rotten my brain.

Stop it.

Thank god I don't drink beer.

I asked about paranoia because you discussed other possible psycological causes.

[Skybird]

Psychological causes do not get aurally recorded on magnetic tape. As long as its not about the subject screaming.

Skip that medical and psychological stuff, the only things that may apply here are

- that humans may develope the sensibility for hearing this sound over ther life, with a climax in the age group 50-70, and then dropping again, meaning that after that that sensibility may decrease again;

- and that some humans can hear "electromagnetically", they can hear the Auroa Borealis and meteors in the ionosphere due to their electromagnetic signature that in any way may interact with the bioelectrically active part of the human body: nervous system, and brain. Some may even be able to "hear" radar, certain bands of it at least. It is not about accoustic but "electromagnetic listening". Accoustic wave travelling plays no role here.

This can lead to indeed the brain forming the idea of an accoustic sound - where there is no accoustic sound, but that idea nevertheless bases on external (electro magnetic) stimulus input. It is not a hallucination therefore, and also does not compare to tinnitus.

But when the hum gets recorded with microphones on tape, then it must be an accoustic phenomenon with waves travelling via the carrier medium of the air, same is true for the circumstance that repeatedly now me and my father noticed at the same time the Hum switching on or off when I was visiting my parents - they live on the other side of the city, 8-9 km in a straight line away.

No tinnitus. No paranoia. No hallucination and no collective hysteria. And my ears sharp and sensible and healthy like that of a lynx.

Personally I think that the hum is a label that must be understood to describe not just one but several possible manifestations of the phenomenon. Maybe it even are different phenomenons, I would not rule that out.

[Buddahaid]

Apparently it's below my laptop frequency response as I heard nothing.