Ringing in the ears?

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As far back as my memory goes. I finally first realized it when I first encountered descriptions of total darkness, and I realized I never saw total darkness; as ambient light fades, the visual static stays the same, and below a certain light level, the static's all I see.

Weird senses I have.

pretty crazy, what's your vision like?

while it might not be autistic trait

might be that autistics get it earlier than most?

just throwing it out there.

Really, really near-sighted.

Yeah, I got tinnitus. Ear plug got stuck in one ear. Ouchy.

Sounds like it's going to rain.

I got one sound in my left ear and other sounds in my right ear.

I've got ringing, whooshing and a sort of static sound. Gets so bad before a storm.

I get a strange crackling/staticy sound in my ears sometimes.

Tinitus. My dad has it too, and he's an aspie. I got it checked out a few years back, and the ear doctor/specialist told me it's due to anxiety. anxiety causing something or another in the brain, and that causes the darn ringing.

Depending on the intensity, that could be normal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigengrau
I'm not normally aware of mine, though I can see it now, under normal room light. In the dark it's much more noticeable, but again it doesn't distract me. When I was a small child I thought it might be clusters of airborne bacteria.

I notice ringing in my ears now and then. Sounds like a Sinclair Spectrum loading a tape. It's never been loud enough to distract me or cause any distress, apart from worrying that it might get louder and I might get fixated on it. I've read somewhere that a low-level background noise is quite normal and is caused by blood rushing through the auditory system.

Yep, and I think it's pretty constant but I've had it so long I don't really notice it unless it comes up (like right now) or gets louder. And now it's been brought to my attention and is bugging me. D'oh. Need to go distract myself again

I don't think so; I've considered that. Eigengrau is described as a uniform gray, and as temperature-dependent. Mine's static, lighter and darker, really like old black-and-white TV static overlaid on everything else. I don't see white as absolutely white, for instance, or black as black; I recognize them as white or black, but they're an infinite variety of shades of tiny spots/particles between absolutely white and black. And mine doesn't change depending on temperature, it's always there. It seems to be the visual equivalent of tinnitus, a sort of grainy system noise.

It's not usually a bad thing, per se, unless I start getting a very busy visual field, which can overload me quickly. Just like the tinnitus is always louder than what I hear, which means I can't tolerate things as loud as most other people, because there's the added noise.

I have it two ways actually. I have a low grade ring that's only noticeable when it's quiet which will usually hit both ears at the same time and last a bit longer. This one goes back as far as I can remember. The second is much louder and higher pitched and will only hit one ear or the other but will cause me to lose all ability to hear out of that ear for about 10 sec to a minute. This one is directly linked to a mortar attack in Iraq. They landed close enough that I'm only alive because shipping containers were in the way.

Aura? I get little dancing particles in front of me as an aura. It's sort of like in live view when you zoom to the highest the camera will go you see spinning pixels.