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My husband (who does not have "ringing in ears" and I who do, tried listening to these ringtones with the following results:

8Khz Everyone Both heard it very well
10Khz 60 & younger I not at all, he very well
12Khz 50 & younger I not at all, he very well
14.1Khz 49 & younger I fairly well, he very well
14.9Khz 39 & younger I barely, he not at all
15.8Khz 30 & younger Neither heard it at all

Lau, or anyone who understands this stuff, does this mean the ringing in my ears is between 10 and 12 Khz and cancelling out the ringtone of the same frequency?

At 52 years old, the 14.9 Khz annoys the hell out of me. When I was a child, I could hear a high-frequency sound from televisions and from, of all things, stoplights. Of course no one in my family believed me. So, I convinced my dad to test me: while riding in the car, I would cover my eyes and announce when the car was approaching a stoplight. I was right, every time. The topic was dropped, abruptly (apparently just another data point on the "weird Lupine" chart). Very VERY interesting to me to learn that y'all share some hearing anomalies...

Cosmiccat, I don't know how to answer your question. Your "cancelling out" idea makes sense to me; perhaps more as a "drowning out" of external noise at 10-12 Khz?

waiting to know who did this to aspie al

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it's sounds even more practical with your words

i store a lot of information in a visual way.
some people say "if you have the picture and you lost something, then look at your picture" that's not how it works for me though, there are so many pictures and visual information stored that i'd need to know more of where to find it, just like in reality you have time and place and a lot of other things interfering.

Beside the video-like scenes, there is also a different system, more like files stored, or little squares containing information (like the months of the year are all squares in a circle like the monypoly game and it has some kind of orientation). some things look more like a lay-out of a paper, maybe it would be interesting to focus more on it to get an overview cause it is all quite unconciously stored, but i think it might be verifiable by focussing.

i don't think i have it (and should have noticed it, although silence is very rare in my life, kids, music, people talking (! , if only i'd have a button to make this stop sometimes ), etc
but i do have a very vivid representation of it, maybe that under circumstances i had a glimps of it
(like after swimming?)

i've always been tempted to experiment with drugs cause people taking them are often the ones that have observations close to mine, although i've never dared (except for smoking pot which is strong enough for me, and i do have to be carefull with how much , cause if i smoke a little too much i lay down with too much visual and auditive impressions, which is pretty scary -hey i think it's here that i have the ear-thing experienced-)

and i never did the pillow-trick but i am often occupied watching patterns in 'moving air', 'dust on the eye',comparing the images of the left eye and the right one, but also marks on the ceiling (connecting them), etc.

I am 8. I bet I'm the oldest here! (Laugh)

AussieBoy

ugvijrdhykuyuuhkfgyhjk. That's all!





Note from Smelena (Mum of AussieBoy and UbbyUbbyUbby).

Sorry about my naughty children! They were sneaking in to say hello to NannaRob. We're leaving now.

Ay-up, postpaleo. Get your pen out. New book to write... "Invasion of the Sub-Eight-Year-Olds", sub-titled "A Tale of Terror in Tyrannosaurus Territory". YowlingCat can do the artwork for the cover - it's a herd(!) of aging dinos, being chased by these two small dots (Fatman and Reuben, maybe?).

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Back to the ringtones.. well found cosmiccat. I grabbed the lot, and am unhappy to say that they play completely randomly on my machine. This means I have a truly awful sound card. It aliases totally at about 11176.5Hz, I'd say, which makes the "tones" above that descend to total silence for the 22357Hz one.

Actually, it's not that simple. It does seem very dependent on exactly which player I use out of my eight, the sound that comes out varies, except that none of them do anything but silence for the 22357Hz tone.

PS. How many beans make five?

I am completely lost when people get chatting about sound on their computers. blathering on and on about ring tones. you have to have money to be so damned high tech, and I get sad when I watch others zoom around, referring to videos, talking about music and ringtones when some of us are our only means of support and bought a computer for $150.00 off a laundry room bulletin board with no sound. my cell phone cost $20. and has a generic ringtone.

I don't expect anything by posting this, I just want people to understand there are a LOT of folks we never meet in these rooms, that would benefit greatly, but just don't have the financial means to get here. I know I didn't until February! ( I snuck into WrongPlanet on my work computer and got a written warning for it!)

Merle

I hope it's me sound card (or lack thereof) but every tone above 14k is silent!! I'll try the test on me work computer and see if the mileage varies.

It isn't just you. I know I'm spoiled beyond belief and always was. It's more apparent when I'm here, although it's pretty apparent even in the NT world. It causes its own kind of trouble because some NTs think I "don't deserve it" since I'm so "strange" and "don't act like a woman."

I'm sorry you don't have access to the cool computer. Do they still have wired cafes? Maybe someone would let you listen to theirs?

I understand this and agree about all the folks who don't have the means to get here. It's a helpful reminder not to take so much for granted. I do not have "money" to the proportion that that phrase implies, but I do have priorities on what I spend my money on. And I do have live-in tech support from my gifted son-in-law who can build computers or take discarded pc's from dumptsters and get them up and running with the help of really good deals he finds on ebay. My present laptop is modest and was modestly priced (under $500. and a total surprise birthday-anniversary-Mothers Day gift combined from my husband who is retired and collects a very modest SS income but knows how important writing and communication is to me and felt the expenditure was well worth it. He told me, after presenting me with it, that I wouldn't be getting anymore biggy-gifts for a while. I'm cool with that. This is funny though, and I hope you won't be offended, but I took you for a "rich girl". I love awakenings. Thanks.

Don't feel bad, Merle. My computer was given to me by one of the Missus' friends who was upgrading. It's 'only' 1gigahertz, no sound card, no video card, no dvd recorder. Pretty generic stuff ! ! But I can afford high speed access, and that's nice. I tried to 'transplant' a sever chip into it, but I broke the adaptor bit fiddling with it ! ! So it's 'as is' from the factory.

Thank you for the first laugh of the day! I have been up and I have been down, it all depends on who is captianing the ship at the time ( I have dissociative identity 'disorder' the old 'multiple personality' diagnosis) But I have been on my own with no family since I was 17 and life, as they say, can be quite the challenge.

Merle

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