If what you say is true about all the neural misfires and cross-talk, wouldn't that mean that deaf people could potentially still hear things? Not coherently, but noises, hums, and other noises generated by their brain even though they've never heard with their ears before? I would suspect it would be a lot less "noise" than a hearing person, because the hearing portion of their brain doesn't function properly, but still, would you hypothesize that maybe do hear some minute sounds?
The old TV hum is usually coming from the horizontal flyback oscillator. Someone with good hearing can hear when the plates in a transformer lose their "stuck togetherness". The epoxy dries out and the transformer plates actually vibrate at a frequency that can often become painful. The really old CRTs had this problem and would lead to headaches. But never mind me - I still know vacuum tube (valve) theory and restore radios from the 1940s John
Oh, hell yeah. Problem with that one is, the moment it gets in my head, I have to watch it five times or so before it goes away.
it's always parts of riff's that I'm trying to learn, or bits of songs that i like, but i can't keep it in my head so i whilst or hum. I'm pretty sure I'm not a cylon though, unless I'm the final one?!
LOL. With me it's always odd songs. I woke up this morninghearing the Backstreet boys in my head...(and here i was happy about not hearing them on the radio anymore...)... so i got up, and fought back with some Falco...
They do. People born deaf do not live in a silent world any more than people born blind live in a world of black darkness. They report a sense of "sounds" accompanying events that they see: leaves rustling in the wind, water splashing etc. Some find flickering CCFL tubes very distracting for that reason. Deaf people have a concept of sound, because they can feel vibrations. It is just not the same as hearing people's experience of sound. Conversely, hearing people cannot experience native deafness --it is not the same as sticking fingers in your ears (neither can seeing people experience native blindness --it is not like being in pitch darkness). Basically, Deaf (and blind) people have a totally different frame of reference for their experiences from hearing (and seeing) people, and there are no meaningful ways in which we can communicate those to each other because language is about shared frames of reference. Also, in Deaf people the areas of the brain that would normally be dedicated to processing sound have partly been allocated to other senses, such as touch and vision, so Deaf people are more likely to report synaestetic qualities to what they refer to as "sounds". Deaf people also have a concept of verbal communication because they observe hearing people do it. As such they can have dreams in which they talk, described as moving their mouths and seeing others do the same while somehow telepathically "knowing" what others are saying. Psychotic Deaf people report hearing voices --but again those are not like psychotic hearing people's voices. They can relate what the voices say and whether they are loud or soft and even where they come from, but when they are asked to describe auditory attributes of the voices (male, female, tone, pitch, accent) they cannot do it. Again, we are talking about a fundamentally different experience that hearing people have no shared frame of reference for.
@nexxo - That explains why I can't pick up what people are saying to me in a noisy room. I can't filter out ANYTHING. At family events with no ambient noise I've caught myself following 3 or more conversations, but at the grocery store I can't hear the checker right in front of me. @John - Early '70s Zenith. That booger ran 'til the '90s, but it killed me to be around it.
Yup, possibly a mild form of Auditory Processing Disorder? Your brain possibly has difficulty picking out which sounds are relevant and which are not because it can't decode the patterns quickly enough, so it can't lock onto one stream and filter out the rest. Hearing is a time-pressured activity. Interestingly this lack of filtering may also allow you to follow three conversations at once --something I would struggle with.
In my family it may just be a learned trait. My mom and her sisters are hard to follow when they talk to each other. They don't take turns speaking to each other like in normal conversations, I've caught them talking to -and- listening to each other at the same time. The menfolk don't get to say much at family gatherings.
Nexxo, from what you say i can see that deaf and blind people have their other senses increased.... right?
There's always music in my head, too. But I can't hear it too well, - the voices always drown it out.
Deaf people have better peripheral vision than hearing people. They may also have better visual sequential memory, if I recall. Blind people develop better hearing and touch. A person's brain constructs the world with the senses available to it, and because these senses are flawed it will neatly edit out any holes that may occur (think of our blind spot, for instance). So deaf or blind people do not experience holes in their perception just because they lack a particular sense --their world appears as complete to them as ours appears to us. It is just different in ways we cannot conceive.
A lot of times I hear music in my dreams or day dreams and I wake up and the melody and everything will still be playing in my head so I will quick write it down before it goes away lol. I think it's the by product of being very musically minded, not really from training though because it's always been that way even before I had any formal training in music. A lot of my relatives are professional musicians and my ancestors were musicians and composers so maybe it's something genetic. I've never asked them if they hear it too, but it would be interesting if they did.
Music in Mind Lots of things could be worse. In my case, my mind "seizes" on a song and won't let go of it for weeks. I'm currently on MacArthur's Park ... have been since around first of April when my big stress time hits. I do taxes for a living. Last year it was Longfellow Serenade. It's always been something and figured it was just part of living. I think I'd rather hear something in there than nothing.
I've been working on a summer genealogy project with my granddaughter's gifted and talented project. She wants to know about my life. The more memories I dig up the more songs come along too. I can almost identify which car I was driving in which year by the songs in my head. I have a 5AM wakeup for meds and exercise so I watch most of DirectTV with the sound off and catch the Closed Captioning. On the older movies I can fill in the music. john
Does anyone get specific audio-experiential associations stuck, such that when you hear a certain song you always go a certain place in your head, spacially? Whenever I hear Limp Bizkit my brain starts running optimal paths through the UT99 deathmatch maps 'Conveyor' and 'Pressure' and the like. When I hear certain songs that I used to listen to whilst walking to and from school, I'll constantly trawl extremely lucid 3D reconstructed imaginings of school and the nearby streets. Hearing certain old songs makes me constantly patrol my uncle's old house in my head. Anybody?
Me too. It's not too bad, but i find it really frustrating when I am trying to get to sleep. Too much time spent at gigs and parties
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring, Bananaphone. Do, do do do do do. I used to drift off to sleep every night with music in my head, now it's not so often - I guess because I don't listen to as much these days.
