[devane617]

Taos????? I get a humming in my head each time I go to Taos....

[yldstrk]

I’ll tell you what it is.........she’s batty

[SatinDoll]

She probably has tinnitus. I’ve had it all my life. It can be very annoying but she needs to get over herself.

[TaraP]

Ping.. 'Cover-up' So what is the cause? Various features of modern life have been blamed - gas pipes, power lines, mobile phone masts, wind farms, nuclear waste, even low-frequency submarine communications. The internet is abuzz with rumour and speculation. There are dark mutterings about secret military activity, alien contact and government cover-ups. The hum even featured in an episode of the sci-fi drama "The X-Files". Such conspiracy theories are understandable, but unhelpful, according to Dr David Baguley, who's head of audiology at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. He estimates that in about a third of cases there is some environmental source that can be tracked down and dealt with. "It may be a fridge or an industrial fan or a piece of heavy machinery at a nearby factory that is causing the disturbance and can be switched off," he says. Most of the time, however, there is no external noise that can be recorded or identified. "People do come up with some strongly constructed, sometimes strange theories," says Dr Baguley

[wastedyears]

60 cycle hum

[fortunate sun]

I know exactly the sound they are referring to.

[Anti-Bubba182]

She should turn off the vibrator.

[Pablo64]

Only things around our place that hum are the alpacas, but it's a nice, pleasant kind of hum, so they can't be causing it.

Maybe this is all in their heads??

[Jagdgewehr]

Sitting in the living room of her home in the suburbs of Leeds, the 69-year-old grandmother describes the dull drone she says is making her life a misery.

Turn off the TV, Grandma. That dull droning is B. Hussein 0bama giving a press conference.

[Old Professer]

High blood pressure

[balch3]

Mr Bell, Mr Art Bell, please pick up the courtesy phone.

[whodathunkit]

Faulty power supply in the Matrix.

Take a blue pill and go back to bed.

[exDemMom]

I’ve had tinnitis ever since I can remember. While it would be nice to know why, it’s not something I’m going to obsess over.

I find that having some other sound going on helps to mask the tinnitis. Maybe what this lady needs is to make her house less quiet, so she has something more pleasant to focus on. A white noise generator might help.

Tinnitis has many forms. For me, it’s two or three high pitched constant tones. Sometimes I hear an extra tone of a different pitch, but it typically fades away after a while.

[Born to Conserve]

I get that when I fail to correctly operate whipped cream dispensors.

[swatbuznik]

I hear the hum, too, and sometimes “it” knows the words, too.

[puppypusher]

Electrical Transformers will hum pretty loudly when they are under a heavy load.Maybe they should check that out.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

I’m used to urban environments so I wouldn’t notice that, but I do occasionally get a high-pitched note that lasts maybe ten seconds, with a distinct start and end, no difference of tone or note or volume in it. Sounds very much like a radio or electronic thing, as if someone’s tuning in, then going off. You’d almost want to say — hello? But I never do. :)

Speaking of weird sounds, though...ever try listening to water trickling in the next room? In the right amount and force it sounds just like people talking, only you can’t make out what they’re saying.

Well, time for my thorazine... ;)

[Bender2]

Gadzooks, there is a hum... in my left ear!

Whoa! Now it is in... my right ear!

Now back... to my left ear!

There is only... one thing to do!

Lubricate... Lubricate... Lubricate... Lubricate!

[surely_you_jest]

I used to have a girlfriend who could hum “The Flight of the Bumblebee”.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[GladesGuru]

What she is hearing is a sound echoing down the halls of time - muted by time and distance, it is the collective OMMMMMmmmm of Woodstock Nation contemplating their navels.