I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN and would like to know what this is as well.
It kind of feels similar to your ear popping, in my experience; maybe it's something to do with pressure, rather than frequency?
YEah, that happens to me sometimes.
That's tinnitus, dude. Most usually, it's a bit of hearing damage making itself known by way of an auditory nerve misfiring.
I blame rock and roll.
BOOOOOOO!
Weird. A similar thing happens to me, but only around televisions -- not all the time, mind you, but just often enough to make me suspicious.
Ah, see, televisions emit really high frequencies when they're on. If you can hear that, your hearing's in pretty decent shape.
Stick pinky finger in ear, wiggle around, the sound will stop, wash hands. I don't know what it is, but I my theory is ear wax build up pressing up against something.
I've always attributed the one-ear-ring to that ear getting bored and taking it out on my brain.
Sounds like mild tinnitus. The full-on kind, which William Shatner suffers from, believe it or not, involves a sound that never goes away. Sounds pretty horrible.
As for the TV thing, I get it too. That's definitely just the high-pitch whine of the hardware.
Thank you, that's terrifying.
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