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		koreth1 on June 6, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An Interview with Lola De La Mata about tinnitus Same experience. When I was a little kid, I thought the high-pitched whine was just what “silence” sounded like.

subroutine on June 6, 2024 [–]

My wild hair theory is that it could be due to sleeping with a fan on every night. Looking back, it seems like I always had a box fan, oscillating fan, or ceiling fan running at night. So that's 8 hours of auditory exposure to the same constant frequencies, every night for many years.

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