On 17/10/2023 14:31, Peter Moylan wrote:
> On 17/10/23 20:30, J. J. Lodder wrote:
>> Paul Wolff <bounceme@thiswontwork.wolff.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>> I went for an audiology appointment this afternoon and needed to
>>> say that I can never hear silence: there is always some signal from
>>> my ears to my brain. I'm jealous of those who can experience its
>>> absence.
>>
>> I think everybody has that, it is just the noise of blood flowing. Be
>> glad it isn't tinnitus yet,
>
> Paul's description did suggest tinnitus to me. I have that too, but most
> of the time I can just ignore it.

Am I correct in thinking that you once described the sound of your
tinnitus as 'rain drops on a tin roof'? (Someone in AUE did, so I may be
misattributing it.) In which case that would induce me to sleep, rather
than keep me awake. I remember the patter of rain-on-roof as a very
soothing sound, from my childhood.

At present the tinnitus volume is
> roughly equal to the sound coming from one of the computers in this room
> -- either a disk drive or a fan -- and I can just decide that both are
> background noises of no importance.
>

On 20/10/23 18:40, occam wrote:
> On 17/10/2023 14:31, Peter Moylan wrote:
>> On 17/10/23 20:30, J. J. Lodder wrote:
>>> Paul Wolff <bounceme@thiswontwork.wolff.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>> I went for an audiology appointment this afternoon and needed
>>>> to say that I can never hear silence: there is always some
>>>> signal from my ears to my brain. I'm jealous of those who can
>>>> experience its absence.
>>>
>>> I think everybody has that, it is just the noise of blood
>>> flowing. Be glad it isn't tinnitus yet,
>>
>> Paul's description did suggest tinnitus to me. I have that too, but
>> most of the time I can just ignore it.
>
> Am I correct in thinking that you once described the sound of your
> tinnitus as 'rain drops on a tin roof'? (Someone in AUE did, so I may
> be misattributing it.) In which case that would induce me to sleep,
> rather than keep me awake. I remember the patter of rain-on-roof as a
> very soothing sound, from my childhood.

It wasn't me, because I too love the sound of rain.

Once, as a child, I stayed in my grandparents' house during a big storm.
They had a corrugated iron roof. After I got home, I found some
corrugated iron and put it outside my bedroom window, so that I could
enjoy the sound of the rain.

--
Peter Moylan http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW

On Fri, 20 Oct 2023 23:23:13 +1100
Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote:

> On 20/10/23 18:40, occam wrote:
> > On 17/10/2023 14:31, Peter Moylan wrote:
> >> On 17/10/23 20:30, J. J. Lodder wrote:
> >>> Paul Wolff <bounceme@thiswontwork.wolff.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >>>> I went for an audiology appointment this afternoon and needed
> >>>> to say that I can never hear silence: there is always some
> >>>> signal from my ears to my brain. I'm jealous of those who can
> >>>> experience its absence.
> >>>
> >>> I think everybody has that, it is just the noise of blood
> >>> flowing. Be glad it isn't tinnitus yet,
> >>
> >> Paul's description did suggest tinnitus to me. I have that too, but
> >> most of the time I can just ignore it.
> >
> > Am I correct in thinking that you once described the sound of your
> > tinnitus as 'rain drops on a tin roof'? (Someone in AUE did, so I may
> > be misattributing it.) In which case that would induce me to sleep,
> > rather than keep me awake. I remember the patter of rain-on-roof as a
> > very soothing sound, from my childhood.
>
> It wasn't me, because I too love the sound of rain.
>
> Once, as a child, I stayed in my grandparents' house during a big storm.
> They had a corrugated iron roof. After I got home, I found some
> corrugated iron and put it outside my bedroom window, so that I could
> enjoy the sound of the rain.
>
That'd be OK for your rare ocurrences of rain; but Michael Palin spent 3
days in a tinhut in Bhutan? and couldn't see how anyone could bear the
full 3 months of monsoon the locals usually endure.

White Noise is well-known to torturers.

--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.