Weird ability, in my head...

Heofz

Heofz

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I don't know if I'm the only one who has ever noticed this, but this is why I'm asking you guys... and you may think this is quite a WTF topic, but my curiosity has got the better of me and I feel compelled to ask if anyone else can do this aswell. I doubt this ability serves any use, but I'm curious nonetheless.

This is going to be hard to describe, but bear with me...

There is a muscle (or something) around my ears, where if I were to engage it, I hear a rumbling inside my head. I can do it on command and I have been able to do it for as long as I can remember.

Whats odd about this, is that unlike other muscles which can be demonstrated to others (such as flexing your biceps etc), it's only something I would be aware I'm using and nobody around me. If you get what I mean. :o

This ability seems to be totally independant of breathing or anything else; it is simply something I can do any time I want, and sorta feels like perhaps I'm exhaling out of my ears through my sinus, but blocking my ears by plugging my fingers doesn't affect it either.

Am I the only one who has noticed this? Or is this just something that everyone can do but has never bothered to ask about? :confused:
 
I can do it, no special power i'm afraid. Sometimes use it if i don't want to hear football scores or something
 
I can do it too. So no :p.

It's useful to blank things out if you don't want to hear them ;).
 
I can do what I think your on about. If your like me , you have to pull a sort of frown to get a whistling like thing in your ears.

Its how I get chicks.
 
Bengaboy said:
I can do what I think your on about. If your like me , you have to pull a sort of frown to get a whistling like thing in your ears.
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Yeah that sounds about right, though I can do it without showing any change on the outside. Oh, but I don't hear whistling, just a rumble.

Grrrrr said:
Sometimes use it if i don't want to hear football scores or something
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Pho said:
It's useful to blank things out if you don't want to hear them ;).
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For me, while it dulls outside noise I can still hear... just to a lesser extent.

So now that we've established that this is a normal part of the human anatomy? Does anyone here know what purpose this serves or what it is? lol :p
 
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Heofz said:
Yeah that sounds about right, though I can do it without showing any change on the outside.
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So now the thread has served it purpose can you tell us if you feel like a bit of a numpty for revealing your not very special power to the world? :p
 
are you guys on about the muscle at the top of your jaw either side? i get a faint ringing sound from doing it but thats all
 
Grrrrr said:
So now the thread has served it purpose can you tell us if you feel like a bit of a numpty for revealing your not very special power to the world? :p
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lol, I never said it was a "power", just an "ability" :p

Too much heroes? ;)

Jambo said:
Yeah I think I can do it. You can't maintain it as a constant but can keep doing it in short bursts.
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Yeah, but after years of doing it I can maintain it for a good 10-15 seconds if I really try, and oddly I think closing my eyes helps.
 
The noise you hear is just the blood flowing through blood vessels in your inner ear. Similar to the sound you can hear when you stick your fingers in your ears. Flexing that particular muscle causes the tubes in your ear to compress thus decreasing noise heard from outside and increasing background noise heard from blood flowing in your blood vessels.

At least that was the explanation a doctor friend of mine gave me. Wouldnt exactly call it a super power...
 
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