I hear radio stations in my head

[Wendylesueur]

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

[NavyDavy]

Ok, so this is totally weird.  This exact same thing happened to me one time about 3 years ago. I think about it often, such as tonight.  So I finally decided to google "hear radio station in head" or something, and I found this site.  To my amazement I am not alone.  What it sounded like was clear as day.  It was very quiet in the house and it was as if I had tuned into a real freaking radio station for maybe 5-10 seconds.  I wish I knew what they were talking about. I have only told my wife and yes, sounds crazy.  I heard this very clear audible radio station, but was inside my ear, like I was wearing a small ear piece.  I too have several fillings in my teeth as well as 2 gold caps in the back.  Can this be related somehow?  I know it sounds strange to even type about it.  I need to do some more research.  Additionally, I am in very good health, in the military and cant imagine any reason why I would pick up a radio station.  Of course I get songs stuck in my head sometimes, but this was way different.

[1972med]

I know this is an old thread but because it is still frequented, I want to point people to look into MES (Musical Ear Syndrome), which is actually fairly common, and sounds like what many here may suffer from. I found this thread because I have the same issues of thinking I am hearing radio stations in my head, especially when on the edge of sleep, but sometimes also when I'm clearly awake.

[Folicaphobia]

I began hearing radio stations 5 yrs ago, after going deaf in my left ear. The hearing loss is from prolonged exposure to compressed air, I have always used air tools as a Auto Mechanic for the past 27 yrs. The Radio Frequencies are usually a soft murmur, but louder when i'm exhausted (like when you hear the pulsing flow of blood in your neck arteries below the ear after a god yawn)....you guys do hear blood flow too, right? The Radio Stations I hear are emitted by moving electric fans, ceiling, window,  hard drives, even the A/C fan in my car. The spinning fan seems to cut the radio waves frequency. Luckily, after trying ti match the station in my head to a portable radio (with an ear piece in my good ear) I have found out that I can change the station in my head by changing the fan speed setting. Higher speeds= higher stations up the dial. Lower speeds= most often, Muisica de Mexicana! Country is speed 5 on the Patton floor fan, and 3 on the living room ceiling fan! This was the only way my wife of 25 years finally believed me. I told her to go turn on the stereo to 103.5 the local Country Station, and I bet you "Red Solo Cup" is playing. She now listens to me...and is a FAN of Electrophonic Hearing.

[Dogtired12782]

I hear what sounds like old radio shows. Yesterday I was bombarded with a bugle playing reveled  tonight I keep hearing a speech by Ronald Reagan with "Hail to the chief" in the background. An old anchor Dan Rather I think talks during part of it. I can hear a lot of the words from Reagan but quite make out all of the anchor follow up.

[Technoclutter]

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.

[johnnydoey]

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.

[Greenbean88]

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!