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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Does anyone's tinnitus actually sound like eeeeeeeee? Because my various layers (caused by three different things) don't.
Mine is currently doing an eeeeeeeeeee sound, but it varies at different times
Yep. High pitched eeeeee right now. I feel inferior as to its cause, given military servicepeople above were mentioning what caused theirs. I just stupidly stood next to a very large speaker at a concert when I was much younger. You figure I'd have gotten used to it by my 50's.
If it makes anyone feel better, I get Exploding Head Syndrome!
I wouldn't say it's a vowel. But it's closer to E than anything else.
Agreed. It's a raw pitch, with no articulation. For me it's a very high pitch, kind of a digital hum like when you turn a computer monitor on in otherwise complete silence, just louder.
Not everyone will experience the same pitch either. It's caused by the micro hairs in your inner ear dieing, which for some reason causes the pitch they were responsible for detecting to be stuck permanently on.
Closest thing to silencing tinnitus is distracting yourself from it with other, louder sound - I tend to have music or something on as often as possible, but that constant loudness is slowly killing more micro hairs and expanding the range of the tinnitus over time.
Old man me is gonna be deaf as fuck. 🤘
I got tinnitus for free. I have had that ringing sound nonstop since I was 4 or 5, and I'm now almost 70. You do get used to it. But you will experience hearing loss as you get older.
Mines more of an nngg sound but I could see sometime describing it as eeee. It's a more or less solid constant tone but it's more nasal for me, if that makes sense?