[CapsAdmin]

I have constant ringing in my ears, but I'm not sure if this is like the common tinnitus everyone is describing.

It's something that gets much louder if I clench my teeth or stretch my body. I also get the occasional ringing in ear like everyone else does every now and then that lasts for a few seconds. This is much more clear, lower in pitch, comes from one of the ears and sounds more like a sine wave. What I hear feels like it comes from nowhere or in the middle of my head and sounds more like many sine waves phasing and changing at around 12khz. It sounds very "soft" or detailed and I've tried to reproduce it on the computer but it's very difficult as it easily sounds very harsh. (another way for me to describe it in terms of computer graphics is as if it's super-super sampled)

I've read that everyone can also hear ringing when placed in a quiet enough room, but some people can hear it all the time. (like me but it's not really a problem)

So everyone has visual noise and tinnitus but to different degrees, and when it becomes a problem for the person it's classified as a syndrome?

[visarga]

I can hear this ringing all the time, even during a conversation or on the street. I tend to not be aware of it, but when I am, it is ringing loud and clear.

I too tried to describe it - like a waterfall, like the sound of the cathode ray TV set, like the sound of pressured gas escaping from a hole, or just pure sonic pressure. The location of the sound is not in any of the ears but inside the head. When I yawn or when I breath out slowly on the mouth it becomes more intense.

I find it comforting and don't mind it. I even used it as support in meditation (it's called the "nada resonance" in yoga). It's just with me, and has always been. When I found out that not everyone hears it, I was quite surprised.