I had tinnitus? for several years, which might have been some kind of TMJ thing or pinched nerve. I recently wore an ALF appliance to fix sleep apnea and to correct a twisted bite from maybe sleeping on headgear on one side as a child, and thankfully the ringing went away. It sounded like the whine after an explosion in movies:
I feel like maybe the brain fills in the missing frequencies from damaged hair cells or pinched nerves and hallucinates the sound. Like in this Coke can red-cyan color illusion:
Maybe a hearing aid could be set up to amplify the frequencies near the whine and dampen the rest. Kind of like adding cyan to the can so that it no longer appears red. Or removing cyan from the surrounding image.
I just tried doing a deep dive on how hair cells work, but I'm just seeing a bunch of research papers. It mainly says that they don't grow back after dying. I thought that the frequency they detected was based on their location in the cochlea, but it sounds like they have a random distribution of resonant frequencies instead.
Maybe gene therapy could be used to increase or re-roll the hair cell randomness so that other cells could take over for the missing ones. Or maybe a drug could make them grow or shrink slightly at random to change their resonant frequencies, like how eating biotin makes your hair grow.
Knowing nothing about this, I wish there was a way for people who geek out on stuff to be able to solve a bunch of random problems and make rent, like in a think tank. I get so bored and tired of working on the same old CRUD apps day after day as tech gets more marginalized with ever-increasing workload for the same pay.
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I had tinnitus? for several years, which might have been some kind of TMJ thing or pinched nerve. I recently wore an ALF appliance to fix sleep apnea and to correct a twisted bite from maybe sleeping on headgear on one side as a child, and thankfully the ringing went away. It sounded like the whine after an explosion in movies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VePV-gsNBNc
I feel like maybe the brain fills in the missing frequencies from damaged hair cells or pinched nerves and hallucinates the sound. Like in this Coke can red-cyan color illusion:
https://www.reddit.com/r/opticalillusions/comments/1cc8cwp/c...
Reddit regrettably makes it hard to link directly to images, so here's one you can zoom yourself with command/control +/- for proof:
https://gagadget.com/en/446542-a-photo-of-a-coca-cola-can-th...
Maybe a hearing aid could be set up to amplify the frequencies near the whine and dampen the rest. Kind of like adding cyan to the can so that it no longer appears red. Or removing cyan from the surrounding image.
I just tried doing a deep dive on how hair cells work, but I'm just seeing a bunch of research papers. It mainly says that they don't grow back after dying. I thought that the frequency they detected was based on their location in the cochlea, but it sounds like they have a random distribution of resonant frequencies instead.
Maybe gene therapy could be used to increase or re-roll the hair cell randomness so that other cells could take over for the missing ones. Or maybe a drug could make them grow or shrink slightly at random to change their resonant frequencies, like how eating biotin makes your hair grow.
Knowing nothing about this, I wish there was a way for people who geek out on stuff to be able to solve a bunch of random problems and make rent, like in a think tank. I get so bored and tired of working on the same old CRUD apps day after day as tech gets more marginalized with ever-increasing workload for the same pay.