The Hum

[Katzenjammer]

Does anyone else hear it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum

Particularly at night and it was strong last night in the early hours. Not central heating pumps or bathroom extractor fan sucking away the acrid vomit stench from the slapper next door as she chunders her vino up for the third night of over indulgence (you can still drive your car though pet and use your mobile whilst ferrying your kid around eh!).

I've heard it for years but put it down in my area to something running in one of the chemical works or heavy industrial plants. Not so sure now with everything on shutdown for maintenance.

Hmmmmmmmm Loads of stuff on the web about it.

[Raj]

KJ ... I read up about it ... All I can say is ... What a load of HUM bug

[Geordie]

I heard them last night. I thought we beat them in 1945

[Katzenjammer]

Ho Ho Ho Raj! Cleverly done

Gordon you forget '66!!!!!

Or maybe you were too young but I remember 30 July 1966 as if it were yesterday. A lovely sunny day and watching the match on an old black and white telly (there was nothing else). After the match my mate Phil Walker and I raced out of his house screaming and shouting and kicked the football up and down the road......

Happy daze

[Raj]

I was born in 1966. It never takes me very long to answer the quiz question "How many years is it since England won the World Cup?"

[Geordie]

Gordon you forget '66!!!!!

Or maybe you were too young

Yeah, made in1968 unfortunately Steve. I would have liked to have witnessed the game

[FPoole]

Don't know if it's the same hum, but I can hear a hum at times dependent on how my head lays on the pillow. The sound I hear comes from the jaw hinge area and I can make it stop by flexing the jaw muscles. This only works when flexing, but I can find a different position on the pillow and it stops. I'm positive this hum is from the muscles in the jaw as I can feel them quivering at the same time. Probably not the same hum. As for ringing in the ears, that's a whole different story.

[Katzenjammer]

Don't know if it's the same hum, but I can hear a hum at times dependent on how my head lays on the pillow. The sound I hear comes from the jaw hinge area and I can make it stop by flexing the jaw muscles. This only works when flexing, but I can find a different position on the pillow and it stops. I'm positive this hum is from the muscles in the jaw as I can feel them quivering at the same time. Probably not the same hum. As for ringing in the ears, that's a whole different story.

I agree that much of what we hear in the periods of profound silence is probably our own bodily noises and particularly those from the ear and the complicated mechanism of that organ. I have a constant low hissing in mine. The sound the other night was a distinct hum though.