Can you still hear people's voices after you shut everything off?

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Tv, music, whatever.

Once you finally shut it all off for the night, can you still faintly hear it?

[zbdent]

1. things were on?

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7. They're still on, man. They never really go off. nt

[Tobin S.]

2. I used to until I went to the doctor and he gave me some meds.

Everything's cool now.

[Odin2005]

28. LMAO!

[Tobin S.]

33. :)

Just so everyone doesn't think I was being cruel, and what Odin is laughing at is the fact that I really do take psychiatric medication for a condition similar to that described in the OP.

[siligut]

3. Sometimes it seems like it

But apparently our brains try to make sense of ambient noise and stays on the same track for a while. If you try to make conscious sense of it by listening for actual words, you will find that it doesn't. Now, there is something about random items picking up radio signals. But I don't think that is what you are talking about here.

[alarimer]

4. No, but I think the fan is talking to me.

I hear voices in white noise sometimes.

[orleans]

15. (it's not the fan...) n/t

[Orrex]

20. It's nice that you keep in touch with your fans

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Sometimes, in the morning when I'm about to wake up, I can tune everything out around me

and hear birds that are too far away to hear when I'm completely awake.

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6. If we had a floored smiley, I'd use it here.

Trippy.

[harmonicon]

17. I notice similar things.

I've studied music, but never much about music/sound cognition, so I can't explain why we hear that way. I notice it with the radio. I fall asleep with it on very quietly, and it's loud enough to hear right when I wake up, but soon after I have to turn it up to hear it over other sounds.

[Squirmworm]

8. I can see Jenny McCarthy's fat cheeks and lips

why do these doctors do this surgery? the female hollywood stars always worse in the long run.

[Tobin S.]

9. Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we'll die.

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10. We MAY die tomorrow

May! Tomorrow we MAY die. Geez Tobin, don't just do us all in like that.

[Tobin S.]

12. lol!

It was the best response I could think of to that post. I think that's the way Dave Matthews said it. Anyway, nonsense begets nonsense.

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13. Tomorrow never really arrives. nt

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18. But it is here now. nt

[Orrex]

21. What about yesterday?

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23. It is right there on the calendar

And in your memory . . . depending on how much celebrating you did.

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22. No, today is here now.

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24. Tomorrow "today" will be then too

It's all relative . . . thanks gods Einstein created that out for philosophical discussions on the Internet.

[Honeycombe8]

32. But tomorrow never dies, either. nt

[Denninmi]

11. Tinnitus?

?

[Locut0s]

14. Your fillings are picking up radio signals again aren't they?

[Kennah]

16. The voices make me turn off the TV and music to get my full attention.

[HipChick]

19. The voices come and go all night

It took me a while to figure out it was the DVR recordings that I had scheduled

and not folks hanging out in my living room

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

25. When I was a kid way back in the early 60s, I could hear records in my head

without the phonograph playing them if the house was quiet. I could tune into songs in my memory like, for example, Dream Dream Dream (All I have to do is dream) by the Everly Brothers and still hear it as loud and as clearly as when the record was playing. It was weird how strongly songs would remain in my memory after hearing them a few times on the record player, as if a part of my brain was a tape recorder. The phenomenon seemed to go away after I got through puberty.

[Z_I_Peevey]

36. Sometimes after hearing a particular song

that I repeatedly heard while playing albums in my youth, I will "hear" what would have been the next song on the album, in the old noggin, as a mental earworm.

[kwassa]

26. Yeah, with the neighbors I had .... boy, could I hear voices.

Couldn't shut them off, either.

[Odin2005]

27. I can hear my loud neighbors below me all the time.

The woman is going on one of her angry cussing spells, again.

They are not arguing, I can almost never hear her BF, she just is very loud and always sounds like she is angry.

[femmocrat]

29. I don't know what silence sounds like.

I always have on some electronic device to block out my own thoughts. I can't shut my brain off to fall asleep, so I leave the TV on very low.

[Honeycombe8]

31. Me, too. I like noise, up to a point. TV on constantly. Radio in car and at work.

Not necessary in stores...people are talking and other sounds.

[Honeycombe8]

30. They're not telling you to do anything, are they?

[TrogL]

34. faintly?

Could somebody please tell them to shut the fruck up, I can't taking the screaming. Blood...blood the faces transcend this rocky plain.

[bluedigger]

35. No, but my neighbor's Corgi often barks at me when I go to bed.

[Dash87]

37. It's just matrixing.

Our minds want to make sense out of everything, so if it can't, it just makes crap up based on what it already knows (faint voices, seeing faces were they aren't (like those "Jesus's face appeared in my toast" people, etc.)