Re:An Interview with Lola De La Mata about tinnitus
by ffhhj on Thursday June 06, 2024 @04:07PM
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Cool. Maybe resonance with their echolocation waves.
Re:An Interview with Lola De La Mata about tinnitus
by h12nz on Thursday June 06, 2024 @09:52PM
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I’m the same age, and also seem to have heightened hearing at this range. I went to an audiologist for a tinnitus flare up, and did an ultra high frequency hearing test, which confirmed I had abnormally good hearing at 8-16k.
He told me that many audiologists in this specialty believe there is a class of people with sensitive hearing, who are more perceptive to threshold changes in hearing (hence tinnitus). But there’s been no real research on it.
I’m not sure to what extent I believe it (given audiology is somewhere close to physiotherapy in terms of rigour)
Re:An Interview with Lola De La Mata about tinnitus
by Fire-Dragon-DoL on Sunday June 09, 2024 @12:30AM
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For what is worth, my situation is exactly the same. Although I never noticed if I can hear bats
Interestingly enough, it doesn't really bother me unless I'm seeking it out, so I wonder if my young brain just adapted to it.
Another weird fact about me is that I can hear things (I'm 35) that lots of people can't. I can definitely hear switching power supplies in everything (well, almost everything - really high quality electronics mostly seem to be exempt). I also know when bats are around, because I can hear a "clicking" noise from whatever their echolocation-producing organ is. I don't think I can hear the echolocation itself, but there is a very distinctive clicking that they make in the process.