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Mysterious spikes in Earth's 'heartbeat' linked to surge in insomnia as people report eerie ringing in their ears
Daily Mail ^ | 04/08/2026 | Chris Melore

Posted on 04/11/2026 8:51:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Earth's mysterious 'humming' vibration has surged for more than a week, prompting reports from some people who say the phenomenon is disrupting their sleep and causing ringing in their ears.

Known as the Schumann Resonance, this natural vibration is often described as the Earth's 'heartbeat,' a steady electromagnetic rhythm generated by lightning bouncing between the planet's surface and the ionosphere, which sits roughly 30 to 600 miles above the surface in the atmosphere.

Space weather monitoring app MeteoAgent reported an intense surge in Schumann Resonance readings starting on Monday, labeling them 'high' and potentially disruptive. However, experts cautioned that such measurements can fluctuate naturally.

The Earth's main frequency typically pulses around 7.83 cycles per second, measured in Hertz (Hz), with several higher-frequency bands also detected.

Some researchers and wellness advocates believe that these frequencies overlap with human brain wave patterns associated with sleep, relaxation and concentration.

Mainstream scientists have argued that research on their biological effects has been inconclusive. However, many people battling insomnia this week have already blamed the surging atmospheric disturbance for various ailments over the last four days.

'Feeling like gravity got thick. Ears ringing. Even my eyesight has been blurry. What’s up with the Schumann?' one person wrote on social media.

Anecdotal reports have frequently linked resonance spikes to people suddenly hearing ringing in the ears, feeling muscle tension, fatigue and brain fog, but medical experts have warned that these claims are not backed by strong clinical evidence.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: electricuniverse; insomnia; ionosphere; quackery; schumannresonance
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To: Jamestown1630

Can be, but more often, though, it means it’s nothing and people be crazy.


41 posted on 04/12/2026 2:39:49 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: BenLurkin

My ears started ringing in the middle of my first firefight in 1966. They haven’t stopped since then. I can’t hear squat these days, but don’t really care.


42 posted on 04/12/2026 3:23:28 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

What a retard. And a really really bad Jew.


43 posted on 04/12/2026 3:51:15 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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To: SunkenCiv

Why don’t cello players shake their heads back and forth, with facial expressions, like violin and viola players do?


44 posted on 04/12/2026 4:11:43 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perfection is impossible. But if you pursue perfection you may achieve excellence - - Vince Lombardi)
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To: Norski

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/blue-oyster-cult/1980/international-amphitheater-chicago-il-4bddbfbe.html


45 posted on 04/12/2026 5:11:53 AM PDT by dznutz
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To: dpetty121263

Look it up. Aluminum is one of the very best conductors.


46 posted on 04/12/2026 5:21:49 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: BenLurkin

I had a weird night last night. I was blaming the schrapnal in my chest.


47 posted on 04/12/2026 5:45:07 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: SunkenCiv

Schumann, not Schubert! :-)


48 posted on 04/12/2026 5:47:17 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: BenLurkin

And I thought the ringing was old age and too much shooting without ear protection as a youth.

But, I’ve been listening an have made out the words, “Need..........more.........CO2....gasp”


49 posted on 04/12/2026 5:57:03 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: metmom

I have heard stories about people grounding their beds, somehow, and reporting relief from insomnia. Sounded whacky, but in one case the guy swore by it.


50 posted on 04/12/2026 6:11:54 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: BenLurkin
7.83 cycles per second, measured in Hertz (Hz)

1Hz IS 1 cycle per second ... Not sure the author quite grasped that.

51 posted on 04/12/2026 6:14:19 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: FoxInSocks

“Schuber! Schumann is flowery. Schubert is... He reminds me of you. The sad one.” — Judah Rosenthal, ‘Crimes and Misdemeanors’ (1989)


52 posted on 04/12/2026 6:24:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Nervous Tick

We benefit all the time from discoveries and developments that have come from NSF and NIH funded research for many decades. It’s like any other kind of endeavor - stupid or crappy stuff creeps in sometimes, but that doesn’t negate the value of the institutions.


53 posted on 04/12/2026 6:40:28 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: exnavy

There are lots of articles out there:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9189153/

https://www.heartmath.org/assets/uploads/site/file/pdf/s/schumann-resonances-and-the-human-body.pdf

https://meteoagent.com/schumann-resonance-forecast

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2656447/


54 posted on 04/12/2026 7:02:05 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630; Nervous Tick

The Office of Naval Research and NIH largely funded my doctoral research in the late ‘70s. My advisor was Otto Sckmitt - which may mean something to those of us old farts with engineering or physics backgrounds.

The navy was trying to deploy an extremely-low-frequency communication system (Sanguine/Seafarer) for communication with submerged ballistic missile subs.

Lots of observational studies looking at ecosystems or modeling soil heating, etc. I think our lab was the only one looking at direct human perception with reproducible experiments. Whenever a test run or subject gave results different from chance, we dug down to look for a mechanism.

I have stories about our designs to screen out background noise and to generate the experimental fields. Northern States Power hated the glitches we induced in the grid. Several subjects’ ability to ‘sense’ the fields we traced to ear wax with ferrous contamination.

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https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C10&as_vis=1&q=Schumann+resonance&btnG=

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C10&as_vis=1&q=sanguine+seafarer&btnG=

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C10&as_vis=1&q=otto+schmitt&btnG=

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FWIW - I always attributed my tinnitus to helicopter turbines and M-16 recoil buffer spring acoustic impulses.

Had massive fun, retired before 50 after a great career in biomedicine.


55 posted on 04/12/2026 7:44:12 AM PDT by NelsTandberg
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To: jerod

Even crazier than Weird Al, take your pick:

The Schumann resonance supposedly is impacted by increasing lighting strikes around the Earth. Earth changes will happen one day, arriving as “birth pains” as travail upon a woman and child about to be delivered, their heartbeats increasing to be born,

1- Hell is enlarging herself for the last days:
“Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.” - Isaiah 5:14

2- Earth is groaning and waiting to be delivered:
“For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.” - Romans 8:22-23

3- As the Judgment is about to Start:
“And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.” - Revelation 4:5


56 posted on 04/12/2026 8:07:05 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: Sicon

They are really cool; I’d never heard of them before:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WGwfV3nrelY&pp=ygUMbXVtbWVuc2NoYW56


57 posted on 04/12/2026 8:34:04 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Obadiah

And I wonder how much of that is placebo effect.


58 posted on 04/12/2026 9:04:25 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: NelsTandberg

Your mention of ‘ear wax contamination’ reminded me of the story that Lucille Ball told of picking up enemy Morse code through her dental fillings. I don’t think it’s ever been determined whether the story could be true or not.

(There are even stories of people picking up radio transmission through embedded shrapnel.)


59 posted on 04/12/2026 9:08:10 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Gilligan once picked up radio stations through a dental filling. What more proof is needed. The Professor agrees.


60 posted on 04/12/2026 9:30:25 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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