I was in my garage the other day, at night, in my car, closed doors and windows and it was off. Everything was so silent that I heard silence! It sounds like a tuning fork, and diminishes slowly. Is it in my head or am I really hearing that? What causes it?
2006-11-15 10:01:23 · 10 answers · asked by RedBelt 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
It is not silence you hear, it is some of your overstimulated hearing cells finally calming down.
Remember if you go to a rock concert or listen to loud music you will afterwards experience ringing in your ears which eventually will go away. Same thing, only you haven't been listening to something that loud, so the ringing in our ears isn't as loud, you only hear it if it is really quiet. I think it is called a threshold shift in your ears.
It's all in your head.
2006-11-17 07:32:26 · answer #1 · answered by convictedidiot 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You not in any respect fairly listen organic silence. What occurs is youre listening to sounds to diffused and jumbled at the same time that you'll also cause them to out. you commence listening to your own coronary heart beat and lungs pump and on some events you may listen the pulses of neurons on your mind (that is wierd). a relaxed wintry climate day causes a range of silent feeling yet youre fairly only having area of your listening to ignore with regard to the further sounds of snow.
2016-11-24 21:27:08 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like you are hearing harmonics... and what causes them is vibration at a certain pitch. But isn't silence the absense of sound? Maybe we never truely hear silence because there is constant sound... even that of our respiration and movement.
However, yes, with no logical basis, I believe you can hear silence. And I think it sounds like harmonics... a kind of great cosmic omh...
2006-11-15 10:08:21 · answer #3 · answered by Mikisew 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What you hear is the blood passing through the veins and arteries in your head. When you hold a sea shell to your ear the sound is amplified. LOUD isn't it? If you hear a high pitched sound you might be suffering from tinnitus which is a form of hearing loss mainly caused by prolonged exposure to loud noises.
2006-11-15 10:08:09 · answer #4 · answered by MikieB 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
To me, silence sounds like a dim humming.
2006-11-15 10:04:50 · answer #5 · answered by MЯ BAIT™ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
is this one of those questions thats supposed to confuse everyone? lol. you dont hear anything when its silent. and if you hear a humming its because something is on like the refridgerator or the air conditioner.
2006-11-15 10:10:20 · answer #6 · answered by lasvegasguy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ya I'm hearing that now. but who knows. I think it's not silence you hear but a reflexion of your hearing processor.
2006-11-16 01:16:14 · answer #7 · answered by Kenshin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you are just hearing something in your head
2006-11-15 10:04:42 · answer #8 · answered by porscheleenj 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I know what you mean, this happens to me all the time.
2006-11-15 10:27:38 · answer #9 · answered by Agnostic 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its your senses but nothing was realy there
2006-11-15 11:14:36 · answer #10 · answered by amipatel333 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋