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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
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some might be caused by high bp,  but when it happened to me I first saw blue orbs then the white noise then the switching of radio stations after I heard a radio announcer that sounded like he was from the 50s. Im not going to lie i hear the high pitch ringing in my ear daily but actually tuning in to a station had me freaked out. Whatever it was felt it and stopped automatically. Since then I have been chasing the station sound ever since, that was 2 years ago.
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Google, Musical Ear Syndrome.  I have it and have now known the name of it for five minutes!!!  Yay im not crazy...now back to my own personal radio station I cant quite hear...lol
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With "Musical Ear Syndrome" you can't hear a real radio wave; just ethereal sounds. I have it.
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You are welcome! Thank you for commenting and good luck.
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After reading hundreds of reports on this subject I have a discovery here!

WHEN YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE IS HIGH YOU ARE ABLE TO HEAR (NOT IN YOUR MIND BUT IN YOUR EARS) THE RADIO STATIONS.

Sometimes you will hear a different station in each ear. It is physical and not psychological. The stations become more defined with white or pink noise.

The first time it happened I thought I was going crazy....what the hell? I searched the entire house for a radio playing but there was none. I could hear it clearly in the heating vents when they were running so I thoroughly checked the furnace and the basement. I asked my children if they could hear it in the vents and they said no. I have exhaustively linked the occurances to one thing.......my blood pressure.

I could hear them day and night with high blood pressure. With normal BP there are no radio stations in my hearing. I have had completely normal blood pressure for three years now.
It is absolutely not a psychological event to hear radio playing unless you hear the same thing over and over....that is something different. Good luck all....you are not crazy, just check your BP.
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This happened to me for first time today. Very odd and disturbing. I have so many questions. I herd a commercial, a radio announcer and then a song. I read that it's just my brain compensating for my hearing loss. How can my brain remember that in such detail when I can't remember where I put my keys most of the time? I'm confused, and quite honestly a little scared
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Hello all:

WHEN MY BLOOD PRESSURE IS HIGH I HEAR THE RADIO STATIONS.  Sometimes a different station in each ear. It is physical and not psycological. The stations become more defined with white or pink noise.

The first time it happened I thought I was going crazy....what the hell? I searched the entire house for a radio playing but there was none. I could hear it clearly in the heating vents when they were running so I thoroughly checked the furnace and the basement.  I asked my children if they could hear it and they said no. I have exhaustively linked the occurances to one thing.......my blood pressure. I could hear them day and night with high blood pressure.

With normal BP there are no radio stations in my hearing. I have had completely normal pressure for three years now.  It is absolutely not a psycological event to hear radio playing unless you hear the same thing over and over....that is something different.  Good luck all....check your BP.
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I have had it quite a few times when I first wake up/get up from bed in the morning. I have very low blood pressure. I think it has something to do with all of the microwave radiation in our homes. I have since gone back to a corded phone, I don't use a smartphone, I use an ethernet cable to connect my computer and X-box to my modem. I have a corded mouse, corded X-box controller, I keep an aluminum screen over my xbox console and the power cord with the transformer because you can't shut the wireless off on the console. I have shut the wi-fi off permanently in my home. I bought a Cornet electrosmog meter from Amazon to test all of this stuff before I switched everything and was horrified at all of the radiation from these items. I also noticed when I stayed at a large hotel with wi-fi in all of the rooms, I had a high-pitched ringing in my ears. It settled down after 45 min. but it was my body telling me that there was high radiation in there. I turned on my electrosmog meter and walked around the entire room. It showed high levels everywhere. I haven't heard any radio noises since getting rid of the radiation. When they start putting up 5G towers everywhere I'm sure it will return!
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Hello Wendy! Let me first say that nobody finds hearing things that are not there pleasant but let me reassure you that you are not hearing radio. The brain and skull are inefficient at converting radio signals into audio, if it did we all would be having this problem.

You did mention though that you suffer from sleeplessness. My question to you regarding this is how often are you hearing these sounds and when? Being tired can lead to audio hallucinations. When we are fatigued or very tired and hear soft sounds in our environment our brains effectively try to make sense of  them using memory or subconscious imagination. What you're hearing is the brain's interpretation of a physical sound in your environment as something you've heard before or imagined. Looping of these sounds is certainly a symptom of audiotory hallucinations.

When I use to go 24 hours of no sleep I would hear Mario party and the Simpsons in regular fan noises from computers or the buzz of lights.

Now because you have mentioned other symptoms such depression and headaches I would consider taking this concern to a medical professional for further investigation. I think it is highly likely that your issues are primarily linked to sleeplessness, but it's best to check all the symptoms for other causes.
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