I thought I'd add a little mirth here...
I *know* for a fact I have an implant in my right ear.
Without surgery, I cannot safely remove it.
When I go to bed, I hear something that amounts to a tao hum and NOTHING ELSE. The "loudness" of the hum varies as the wind.
When I wake up, I hear noise just as you do, speech, radio, telephone, but I am severely limited to hearing anything beyond 2500hz and below 250Hz but only when it is on.
What I hear is not necessairly the same as what "normal" people hear.
I wear a cochlear ear implant. :)
== On a serious note ===
What is called 'tao hum' above is difficult to compare of what others may
call a 'ringing', a 'buzz', as insufficient details or clarity of detail are not
always provided. Some of these may be caused by the head/brain/ear,
others may be by external influences, EM, monitors, transduced noise
THROUGH the body/skull, and so on. Discernment and attention to details
may need to be brought out as the devil is alway in the details, eh?
I wanted to point out, is that I have a unique personal perspective as to
what a cochlear implant device does to the interface called the cochlear.
It is quite astounding as to how this device and the ear works. This device
and "normal analog" hearing aids are vastly different as apples and oranges.
Analog hearing aids requires no surgery thus no implants. Differences are
very well known as the analog hearing aid is a 'crippled' amplifier and does
NOT in any way compare to a normally functional human ear. SO starting
with the analog hearing aid as the weakest link, the weak links continues
through all stages starting from the 'crippled' external ear, to the ear-drum,
into the inner ear and it's parts, the cochlea and it's "carpet fibers" through
the audio-nerve bundles and then onwards to the audio-part of the brain
"processor". It is truly a great engineering marvel.
Before I end discussing the 'analog hearing aid' part, I wanted to add that this
aid also has a built-in "magnetic-pickup", which was intended to transduce EM sound
energy from the magnet-coil of your telephone. What an INTERESTING feature!
I was able to use this device to hear ANYTHING magnetic (within the EM range
it was designed for). This means that I can CORRELATE visual perception with
changing EM fields generated from HV power lines, AC power lines (I could "trace"
it), TV/Computer monitors, just about anything that is electrical or EM changing!
I can tell you that it IS an ERRIE thing to behold. It can "warn" you of just how
close to high powered fields you can be entering into and leaving. I have often
detected high power EM fields driving through a desert, or a forest, or the many
highway systems and I would NOT see ANY visible traces of a power line anywhere.
I was able to SEE and HEAR a CRT montior snapping into "life", and therefore FEEL
the EM wave SLAPPING me into the face at the same time I "heard" the sound - it
is litterally like a very loud SLAP/ BUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuzzzzzzzzzzzzz at the
same time. When I worked for Tektronix, I stood right next to the Ultra High powered
transformers (in excess of 200Kv) rooms and also I stood just as close to those units
at the Bonneville dams power stations (in excess of 500Kv). It scared the hell out of
me if you only heard what I heard. Ok, so I am relating to something of sound to a EM
transduced sound as generated by my hearing aid and this is not the same sound as
the 'ringing' which is caused by the HV flyback transformers that powers a CRT. You
need to discern VERY CAREFULLY the source of this sounds and as to whether it is
internal or external to your self.
Do a goggle search on 'cochlea' - and you will see how the inner ear works. There are pictures there.
Do a goggle search on 'cochlear' - and you will see how a cochlear implant works.
You may be quite astounded (as I am) with the shape of the cochlea, as it is a 'spiral'
and this may relate to the fibonacci sequence, and to evidence of how the prime
numbers relate to everything. But I am getting ahead of myself and perhaps a bit
off-topic, perhaps.
However, I wanted to add something here that is not perhaps well known.
Your skull, even if your ears were waxed shut, would still act as a "ear drum"
for your hearing. Your entire body likewise. Because sound still is transduced
through the body/skull and tends to vibrate your inner ear and your brain hears
it. Of course it depends on the sound intensity and it's frequency. Just because
your ear may not be the primary sound source, if you listen carefully and if you
are able to discern, you might be able to locate the source of the sound where it
entered and it might not have entered into your ear..
The cochlear implant device works by transmitting ELECTRICAL energy INSIDE the
cochlea and I can tell you that when you turn on this device, it acts like a charged,
but changing capacitor. When I turn off the device, you can feel/hear the energy
being discharged within your inner ear and you can FEEL the drain on your brain.
It is a VERY ODD feeling. I can also tell you for a PERSONAL FACT that certain
frequencies in the 0-20,000Hz ranges causes me to go into a "infinite loop"; my
brain is totally addled or "locked up", by eyes flicker, and so my 'cochlear implant
programmer' (audiologist), is carefully trying to set the bandpass filters for this
device to ensure that I will not "lose it" or "go insane". It was a SOBERING fact
I had come to realize for myself.
So - having said that - you can extrapolate all you want. What IF - a concentrated
beam of EM (sound) energy is BEAMED towards that area of your cochlea? Do you
think that your skin/skull/bone would protect/filter/block this beam in order to protect
yourself from external "influences"?
I simply wanted to share something so that you remove your ignornances as to just
how true it is that out body is simply a machine that can be manipulated, quite easily.
When I do not wear hearing aids, I do not get absolute silence. Odd, you might say but it is
very hard for me to explain it. Perhaps the sound is 'tao hum', but only if I am doing absolutely
nothing and think only of it. It could be concioussly created but I tend to think it is more unconciously
created because as I type this message, I can hear it "in the background". I noticed that if I am
really busy I can somehow ignore it so that I am not aware that it is going on. If however I have
my aids on, then I hear noise which completely overwhelms all the "background" noises I heard
without it.
Most people may not be aware, that for normal hearing, many people have their brains processing
quite actively as noise is all prevalent into their lives, 24 hours a day. These people may not be
concicously aware of all the noises entering the ear, but they do tend to "focus" on a single or group
as to hear conversations all at the same time their brain is processing everything else and storing that
information, adding to their knowledge banks. This is really astounding as well. This is why people who
are deaf or have hearing handicaps have a DIFFERENT level of knowledge store in them, as the brain is
NOT processing the hearing noise quite as hard because most of the noise is completely filtered or blocked
off. Somehow, I often wonder, if subliminal programming is easy to do with those who have full hearing
faculties as opposed to those handicapped people and it often makes me wonder why eugenics specifically
wanted to eliminate these kinds.... hmmmm....
One thing I do notice, that when I am not wearing any aids, I seem to be able to focus inwards
and with clarity of my thoughts. I regulary talk to my inner self - and I am quite astounded at
the inner responses I get back. I cannot however, make the singular connection as to a positive
verification that my inner conversations are something other than myself talking to myself.