Magicfly
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Yes I can do this and I've wondered my whole life what that was until I read this thread! (I learn something every day!)
The best way to describe how to do it, is you tense something inside your ears and get that thundery/rumbling noise, you can pulse the muscles so it beats too....I used to play about with it al the time as a kid! |
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ursaminor
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I never thought anyone could do this.
But I'm not sure we are talking about the same thing, although the thundery sound reminds me of the sound I can make in my ear. |
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tonmeister
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| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| Yes, I do that all the time. I never knew that there was anything unusual about it. |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 9:30 am Post subject: |
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Yes, I can do it too. I was wondering what that rumbling sound was that I am able to make! 
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mgran
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Yes, louder on the left than the right. I can't do the left individually, it comes in with the right. But I can do the right seperately.
I used to do this if I was bored. I'd forgotten about it for years. |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 10:25 am Post subject: |
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| Claradoon wrote: | | I don't understand at all - I read the Wikipedia entry and I don't get it. But I desperately need anything that might help me reduce the effect of sound on me. Could somebody explain (I know you did, but maybe try in baby words or something?) Are there exercises I could do? As it is, I use earplugs, which is embarrassing in public, walking around with neon orange sticking out of my ears. |
I'm not sure if/how you can acquire conscious control of a muscle that you don't already have conscious control of. I can wiggle my little toe on my right foot from side to side, but I can't move my little toe on my left foot at all. So, even though I know what it should feel like, I just can't make 'contact' with that leftmost toe... Perhaps you'll have better luck.
The difficult part will be making 'contact' with the muscle. Once you figure out how to do this, simply exercising it will then enhance your control. Hopefully, you can already flex it a little bit, but you just don't realize it yet. Try going through the movements of yawning, chewing, swallowing, or the 'valsalva maneuver' (again, see wikipedia). As you do these things, listen for any sort of rumbling sounds coming from within your head. If you hear this, repeat that movement but slowly and less forcefully. Keep trying to move less and less until only the sound remains.
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^ that's a good point, DC. Perhaps the reason many of us can do this is that we have spent more time alone and have therefore "experimented" with our bodies more (get yer minds outta the gutters you pervs!!!). Ear wiggling is a similar thing. We have the muscle and the ability to take control of it, but isolating just that particular muscle is the hard part to learn.
I think that ... ... ... HOLY SHADES OF OZZY OZBOURNE, WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THAT BAT, MAN?!?
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subliculous
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yeah, i've always been able to do this. it doesn't necessarily muffle outside noises completely, but it diminishes them somewhat. it's weird how i don't exactly know what i'm doing to make it happen either, just like i don't know what i'm doing to voluntarily make goosebumps appear on my skin. but i'm doing it.
maybe it's a vestigial animal thing, like when some animals turn their ears backwards or forwards, dogs, horses, etc. |
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| Mocha wrote: | | I can also do that but i thought everyone else could too. That said, i dont think it has anything to do with AS, but you never know. |
i also thought everyone could do that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani_muscle |
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CodeJunkie
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I asked my housemate who is normal and he can do it too. It probably isn't an AS specific thing  |
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Just taught myself to do it.
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mechanicalgirl39
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I can do it. I hear a low bass noise inside my skull near my ears.
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| Aimless wrote: | | You can get an idea of what muscles they are talking about by yawning deeply. When you yawn these muscles temporarily flex. |
So it's just the... yawning.. thing? As in, flexing this thing, is it kind of like yawning at will? Because I kind of thought everyone could do that. I mean, isn't yawning partly voluntary?
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| wigglyspider wrote: | | Aimless wrote: | | You can get an idea of what muscles they are talking about by yawning deeply. When you yawn these muscles temporarily flex. |
So it's just the... yawning.. thing? As in, flexing this thing, is it kind of like yawning at will? Because I kind of thought everyone could do that. I mean, isn't yawning partly voluntary? |
No, I mean when you yawn these muscles will temporarily flex. It's just a way of finding which muscles they are talking about. I can flex my T.T.s without yawning.
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| Yep! Wow... I always wondered what that was. I never heard anyone say anything about this, so i thought it was just me. I can do it whenever.. There's one thing that's a rumbling and another that's a click(that i can do more in my right eat than my left). I also sometimes get that rumbling noise automatically after i hear a loud noise, like that page explained. Also, it involuntarily gets really tense and loud when i'm sick.. like, about to throw up or something. I always considered it my "warning sound" because it would always let me know when i was about to be sick. |
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