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I hear radio stations in my head
I hear radio stations in my head. It is not like a tune you heard and "just can't get get it out of your head". For an example, this morning when I awoke I seemed to have tuned in to an Elvis station. Sometimes the songs are in a loop just repeating over and over and sometimes I get the whole thing with announcers and news. If I block my ears tightly I can hear a high frequency pulsing. I have anxiety attacks and suffer from sleeplessness and depression. I also on occassion tremble so intensely that I am unable to even lift a glass of water, write or stand still. I suffer from anything from nagging headaches to migrane. I hope you can help
I have the same thing, it's like a transistor radio, like the ones from the 80s, playing far away. It only happens at night, and again since I moved to a warm climate where we use a fan and aircon. It only is noticeable when my ear is on the pillow making me think the neighbours were watching tv very late. It is a bit scary, so glad to see I am not alone.
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I've been having similar experiences, on and off for the past year or so. I have an oscillating fan in the bedroom and can faintly hear what sounds like a talk/news radio station. This morning I woke up at 5:30 and clearly heard the announcer say "40 degrees". I can't really make out what is being said otherwise, but I think I heard "*******" after the announcer gave out the call letters, which were unclear. It was like he was saying the station's call sign and then the url for the station, such as "WABC, or WABC.com". This is very strange, so I did some research, found this page, and decided to tell my wife. Thankfully, she didn't think I was crazy. It doesn't happen every day, but has been occurring more frequently as of late. I wish I could make out what is being said, but only one or two words are clear. This morning I lay in bed for almost an hour, straining to hear the radio call sign or some other indicator of what station it was so I could turn on the radio and find it, but no luck. I can't determine if it's AM or FM, but only once have I heard music, and it sounded like an old country station. Lately it has been sounding like talk radio or news, but with no commercials. I need to get to the bottom of this soon!
I have this problem. Always when a fan is running. And seems to come from the a/c vents. Its not inside my head. Usually only in my room while laying down. And early in the morning. 0300-daylight. Once i heard it in my bathroom ac vent. I am glad to hear different explanations for it. I do have hearing loss. And i do work around radar. I work on tugboats, which is always a loud environment. I have never heard it when at work, only at home, and never at anyone else's home and always when very tired. Its either horns or Obnoxious loud Spanish or maybe English talk shows. Or fast Mexican music. Its just barely audible like someone has a radio on in another room. I searched and searched for an alarm clock radio the first time i heard it. It seems like it started, I would be dreaming and upon awakening, the music or sounds in my dreams would take a few seconds to stop. Like the chemical that causes you to dream (which, dreams are technically hallucinations) like whatever chemical that causes you to dream had a delay in it. Instead of instantly stopping when awaking. Thank you all for sharing. Its weird and can be stressful and a bit scary at times.
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It's 4am and I can't sleep. I'm laying here listening to this radio I cannot find to turn off. Same scenario for the past 3 nights. So what do I do? I google it. Was scared to read the responses, but so glad I did. This response is EXACTLY my current situation. I have a noise maker going at night and I don't start hearing the radio until after 2am. I don't have hearing loss. I work in the hospital and hear a lot of beeping throughout the day. Two nights ago I jumped out of bed because the music was so loud. Once I woke, the music continued for a couple more seconds, but not like it was in a dream. I got up in a daze, trying to find a loud radio in the living room. So scared when I finally completely woke and realized how real it all was. For the past hour I think I've been listening to The Beatles and now it sounds like female country. I can hear the DJ talk every now and then, but it's so muffled, almost like the radio dial is stuck between stations. Maybe I should search on the actual radio and see if I can match the station! Well, at least I feel better now and I don't feel like I'm going completely insane. Goodnight, or good morning. Travis Tritt is playing now. :)
i get **** like chuck norris or joe friday singing some 80 s mix sometimes i bang my head then its hearing the real invasion of america all the dubbing and double talk on media some one out there is doing psychological war on us thru television and it doez not seem to have any mercy i see the herd they are just stuck i n it to
i get **** like chuck norris or joe friday singing some 80 s mix sometimes i bang my head then its hearing the real invasion of america all the dubbing and double talk on media some one out there is doing psychological war on us thru television and it doez not seem to have any mercy i see the herd they are just stuck i n it to
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Yes! It’s only when I lay down and it’s like it’s in the vents, not in my head. My daughter heard it one night. Usually mine is a Hispanic pop station.
I've been reading other answers or explanations and mine doesn't fit. PLUS, because of the sound in my head, I learned about a radio station in my city that I didn't know about before. So if it's just "noise", how do I hear REAL stations???
Nothing has totally and correctly explained what's going on with me. I hear it 24/7/365. There's got to be a better answer. I mean OTHER THAN I AM NUTS!!!
Nothing has totally and correctly explained what's going on with me. I hear it 24/7/365. There's got to be a better answer. I mean OTHER THAN I AM NUTS!!!
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I can hear a local radio station in my head too. It's loudest at night and early morning hours. They built new radio towers & what not near my home, I wonder if that has something to do with it? By the way, I am not nuts,I consider myself quite rational. Might be crazy in a few years though, if I can't find an answer to stop this nightly that wakes me up endlessly.
I have mineires disease in my right ear and I hear radio stations and sometimes even Tv shows. It's been going on since I got a spinal stimulator implanted in 2006. I've been told there's no way that's a factor. I hear music I don't know and it loops also sometimes. Frustrating. I want proof somehow to show skeptics but don't know how.
Below is an article If just found...YEAH Baby after all these years a possible answer to why I hear radio that one else does.
Hearing radio frequencies
Posted on May 24, 2012 by xcorr
I was reading the Wikipedia article on tinnitus, and came across this pearl of a sentence:
A common and often misdiagnosed condition that mimics tinnitus is Radio Frequency (RF) Hearing in which subjects have been tested and found to hear high-pitched transmission frequencies that sound similar to tinnitus.
Hmm, what? Yes, humans, under special circumstances, can hear radio-frequency pulses in the range of 2.4MHz to 10GHz (corresponding to radio frequencies and microwave) as buzzes, clocks, hiss or knocking at apparent auditory frequencies of 5kHz and higher (very high-pitched). That doesn’t mean that you can hear talk radio by receiving AM waves (that would be unbelievably annoying); it just means that when it’s very very quiet, you can hear a faint high-pitched noise from RF sources.
But how could electromagnetic waves be detected as sound, which is a pressure wave? After all, light is an EM wave too, but we don’t hear light! It’s a long story, but basically, you’re a microwave bongo head. Elder and Chou (2003) offer a thorough overview of the phenomenon.
Apparently, RF hearing was first reported in the 1940s by people working with radar, but reports were dismissed as illusions or hallucinations. The phenomenon was investigated scientifically by Frey in 1961, who concluded that RF hearing is a real thing. It can be stopped, for example, by placing a piece of aluminum between the RF source and the ear.
RF sources can only be heard by people with working audition above 5kHz. This would imply that RF sources create an acoustic vibration close to the cochlea that gets detected as high-frequency sound. Indeed, one can record electrical potentials inside the cochlea evoked by RF pulses that look just like potentials evoked by sound waves.
The authors further report that the apparent acoustic frequency of the RF pulse is independent of the EM frequency of the actual pulse but dependent upon head dimensions. So EM energy gets absorbed by the head and somehow this energy is transformed into pressure waves that get reshaped by the head. Thus, microwave bongo head.
The most likely explanation for this is the thermoelastic expansion theory. When RF pulses are created near a container of water, it is possible to detect evoked sound waves in the water; the acoustic frequency of these waves is similar to that of the sounds heard in RF hearing. When an RF pulse is absorbed by water, it locally elevates the temperature, which causes a rapid local expansion which then gets propagated as a pressure wave. The local elevation in temperature can be quite small: the authors give a figure of 5 x 10-6 degrees Celsius (!). This sound wave gets transmitted by bones to eventually make its way to the cochlea, where it gets detected as just another pressure wave.
The authors point out that this is neither dangerous nor useful. It’s just kinda cool. Ain’t science neat?
ResearchBlogging.org
Elder, J., & Chou, C. (2003). Auditory response to pulsed radiofrequency
Hearing radio frequencies
Posted on May 24, 2012 by xcorr
I was reading the Wikipedia article on tinnitus, and came across this pearl of a sentence:
A common and often misdiagnosed condition that mimics tinnitus is Radio Frequency (RF) Hearing in which subjects have been tested and found to hear high-pitched transmission frequencies that sound similar to tinnitus.
Hmm, what? Yes, humans, under special circumstances, can hear radio-frequency pulses in the range of 2.4MHz to 10GHz (corresponding to radio frequencies and microwave) as buzzes, clocks, hiss or knocking at apparent auditory frequencies of 5kHz and higher (very high-pitched). That doesn’t mean that you can hear talk radio by receiving AM waves (that would be unbelievably annoying); it just means that when it’s very very quiet, you can hear a faint high-pitched noise from RF sources.
But how could electromagnetic waves be detected as sound, which is a pressure wave? After all, light is an EM wave too, but we don’t hear light! It’s a long story, but basically, you’re a microwave bongo head. Elder and Chou (2003) offer a thorough overview of the phenomenon.
Apparently, RF hearing was first reported in the 1940s by people working with radar, but reports were dismissed as illusions or hallucinations. The phenomenon was investigated scientifically by Frey in 1961, who concluded that RF hearing is a real thing. It can be stopped, for example, by placing a piece of aluminum between the RF source and the ear.
RF sources can only be heard by people with working audition above 5kHz. This would imply that RF sources create an acoustic vibration close to the cochlea that gets detected as high-frequency sound. Indeed, one can record electrical potentials inside the cochlea evoked by RF pulses that look just like potentials evoked by sound waves.
The authors further report that the apparent acoustic frequency of the RF pulse is independent of the EM frequency of the actual pulse but dependent upon head dimensions. So EM energy gets absorbed by the head and somehow this energy is transformed into pressure waves that get reshaped by the head. Thus, microwave bongo head.
The most likely explanation for this is the thermoelastic expansion theory. When RF pulses are created near a container of water, it is possible to detect evoked sound waves in the water; the acoustic frequency of these waves is similar to that of the sounds heard in RF hearing. When an RF pulse is absorbed by water, it locally elevates the temperature, which causes a rapid local expansion which then gets propagated as a pressure wave. The local elevation in temperature can be quite small: the authors give a figure of 5 x 10-6 degrees Celsius (!). This sound wave gets transmitted by bones to eventually make its way to the cochlea, where it gets detected as just another pressure wave.
The authors point out that this is neither dangerous nor useful. It’s just kinda cool. Ain’t science neat?
ResearchBlogging.org
Elder, J., & Chou, C. (2003). Auditory response to pulsed radiofrequency
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Reading your comment was unbelievable annoying. Why? Because we actually hear these radio stations that no one else hears. And yes, it is unbelievably annoying sometimes. Your answer unfortunately is not helpful to us.
I starter hearing it again a few days ago
Hey can you email me some time Wendy I'm Courtney and everything u said applies to me please email so we can talk because I'm starting to think I'm crazy I only hear it when a fan or AC unit at night
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Yes omg me too. I just finished listening to cocaine and no I'm not on drugs lol but mostly I hear what sounds like country music I'm so glad I finally decided to google this. Its only when the ac is on
I have the exact same thing. I heard a soccer game in my ear when the power was out in my house. Currently listening to some R and B. I also have trouble sleeping and tremble uncontrollably (and embarrassingly) sometimes. Glad Im not alone!
Me also, had anyone been diagnosed? I hear so many baseball games.
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