2006-10-19 05:45:47 · 25 answers · asked by petzneo 2 in Environment
You can't, it's because its such a small space you can hear the air rushing around and also the blood rushing around your head
2006-10-19 05:52:41 · answer #1 · answered by kareno209 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All the people saying it's mostly noise due to the blood pumping round in your head are right I'm afraid.
The really amazing thing is, all the time, sounds are coming out of your ears! Your brain is so used to your body noises it just ignores most of them and then you put your hand, or a shell or a cup (I just tried this with a mug and now I've got coffee dripping down my neck - Thanks Jim - S ) over your ear and some of the noise that was being transmitted out of your ears gets reflected right back in. Your brain isn't used to having that part of the noise reflected back so it doesn't ignore it and it sounds like the rushing noise that wind and waves make in the sea or desert.
Sorry about it not being the real sea sound - hope that knowing your ears make noise makes up for it.
Best of Luck - Mike
2006-10-19 06:18:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What you're hearing isn't the sea, it's the sound made by the blood rushing around inside your head. Not quite as romantic, but true! It's your pulse that makes it rhythmical, like the sound of the sea. I'm not quite sure how it works, but I know that the sound is made by the blood in your head, and the pressure in your ear has something to do with it, too...
2006-10-20 00:04:45 · answer #3 · answered by Sinead C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why assume you can hear the sea? You can't - it just sounds like the sea. Actually it's the blood whooshing around in your blood vessels in your ear, reflected back to you from inside the shell which has its own acoustic properties.
2006-10-19 08:56:37 · answer #4 · answered by Rozzy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you are hearing is your own body noises - eg your blood being pumped around. You hear the same 'sea' noises if you used a cup or a shell
2006-10-19 05:55:31 · answer #5 · answered by Jim S 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It might sound like the roar of the ocean, but what you are actually hearing is the sound of the blood moving through the blood vessels in your ear, echoing through the shell. You can hear the same thing if you cup your hand to your ear.. Give it a go!!!
2006-10-19 05:57:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually you don't really hear the sea in a seashell. I don't remember what your actually hearing (I think it deals with your inner ear), but it is not the sea.
2006-10-19 05:50:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it isnt the sea its the blood rushing in your head and the air between your ear and the shell
2006-10-19 05:54:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its the viberation of air flowing around you. Try holding other objects to your ear like a flower vase or jelly jar and your will hear the same "ocean roar"
2006-10-19 05:54:59 · answer #9 · answered by Up_In_Smoke 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lol it's not the sea you hear the breeze blowing thats why lol
2006-10-19 05:53:23 · answer #10 · answered by trugangsta1992 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋