Re:What is the mysterious 'global Hum' and is it simply nois...
by hazeii on Sunday October 11, 2020 @02:03PM
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Very similar experience, after a bit of research it was clear the 'global hum' explanation loses out to the much simpler explanation that it's an internal effect.
I too found exposure to loud noise supressed it (e.g. regularly suppressed for a couple of days after nightclubbing), also only 'audible' in very quiet surroundings (even lightly touching an earlobe caused the 'hum' to cut out).
It went away after life got noisier (kids'n'dogs).
Also, oddly, it comes and goes over a scale of months, seemingly at random. One day, I'll wake up in my quiet bedroom and hear it, and I'll continue to hear it in quiet environments for a month or two. Then, after those several months, I'll wake up again and find it gone.
I notice a very loose correlation to it abating after a loud weekend, like a weekend spent driving my race car or doing metal fabrication, but otherwise it seems random.
A while back I ran it down with medical professionals, but the gist of that expensive adventure was that it was likely idiopathic. It appears to be of the subjective type rather than objective, but -- long story short -- that's not definitive.
My "solution" for now is to run the ceiling fan at night during the months it's present.