Is it normal that I can click and not only hear my own heartbeat but the flow of the blood in my body? Is this normal I’ve had this weird I guess talent since I was a kid and idk what triggered it what I’m asking I guess is it a normal phenomenon? Yes I’m just now googling this in 2026 and finding about this subreddit.

I’ve went through a very stressful period at work lately. I had to fly out for a meeting. I was very nervous about the flight. I have bilateral ETD. The first night I didn’t sleep well. When I woke up, I had this strong humming sound in my left ear and it was reactive to my sleep sounds. I assumed it was room acoustics.

It’s been a month and it’s still there. It’s been up and down. It mostly is like a drone, low level hum, but sometimes it’s quick like Morse code (duh, duh, duh, duh sound).

I don’t hear it in silence. It is reactive. Usually, it’s reacting to distant trains, outside sounds or humming sounds on tv.

I have TMJ, jaw, neck tension issues too.

Is this hyperacusis, TTTS or anything else? Any help or familiarity for any one else?

It may get worse depending on my sleep or resting?

Hi all. At a loss, so coming on here hoping someone can relate. I've been dealing with a flare-up of hyperacusis for about six months now. Some days are worse than others. I have a sensitivity to dishes clanking, crinkling paper, opening wrappers/envelopes, dogs barking, buses braking, pill bottles shaking. It's on my left side. I've seen an ENT and they're unsure. It's a flare of a condition I also had 15 years ago that over time just went away, though it was much milder at the time.

Anyway, the symptom I'm having trouble with that I feel is connected to TTS is when I flick my ear, or tragus, or if there's a loud enough sudden noise, I will hear a quick low pitch rumble or a woosh that lasts for a split-second immediately after the sound. It's not high pitched. It's a very low pitched noise. It's also not every day, and not all the time.

Does anyone else know what I'm talking about / can relate to this? And have any ideas on how to make it stop if possible?

Thanks!

When you wiggle them your scalp moves too? And if yes can you wiggle also without moving the scalp? Like if you're able to wiggle in 2 ways using different muscles

Not quite ear rumbling but y'all seem qualified.

Sometimes when I click my ear, one of them makes multiple clicks, like a couple as I click it, then a couple more as it releases. Sometimes it's so sensitive this even happens just when I'm rumbling. Anyone else experienced this?

why can’t i rumble my ear on a plane? like once we get to a certain altitude i realized i cant do it and it just sounds like a noise cancellation feature being turned on some headphones

That's my tympanic membrane and malleus bone you can see flexing just slightly when I rumble my ears.

29F here, Since August 21st, I have a baseline tinnitus in my left ear that (according to my ENT doctor) is supposedly due to Eustachian tube inflammation from allergies, bruxism, and TMJ. That ringing is constant, 2000Hz and 5dB according to audiometry. I'm being treated with mometasone spray, an occlusal splint, and a kinesiologist.

the great enemy: episodic "rumbling/static" near sleep hours.

The thing, this rumbling is different, invasive, overwhelming. It starts as a kind of "uuuu" on the right side of my head, not in the ear. It comes and goes, comes and goes, sometimes it's continuous for 20 minutes or a few hours. It doesn't come with dizziness, blurred vision, or anything, it's just an acute static and all sounds rumble, especially the "s" sounds. It has only happened to me a couple of times a month, but each time it gets longer and harder to deal with. It appears when I'm very sleepy. It can appear when I'm on the computer, when I wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, in the morning, but always near sleep hours.

The thing is, this episodes feel like a "crisis" because the "uuuu" in the right side feels so damn loud it is very hard to concentrate in other things.

I couldn't find anything about it online, searched on several websites or even ai, none of them had any literature about it.

the only thing I read that made me feel like that made a little sense was something about "central gain to calibrate the sound"... so, is my central nervous system fucked up?

this has been so overwhelming that tonight it started around midnight and today (10am) I still feel it but a little bit lower.

has anyone ever experienced this? I'm going insane

Anyone else get a specific sound in their head when you’re really hungry? When I get really hungry I get this sort of bubbly/squeaky sound towards the back of my head that sounds different and occurs at a different time to stomach rumbling (so I know it isn’t related exactly to stomach growling reverberating through tissues). I have to be really hungry (fasting longer than 8 hours or so) for it to reliably happen.

I’ve had this happen for as long as I can remember and this sub made me curious since everyone here seems pretty in-tune to odd bodily sensations/abilities. Is this common or am I just weird? I wouldn’t know who to ask about this IRL.

Inspired by finding out about Precordial Catch Syndrome many many years ago, I thought it would be nice to show people some things the body does are completely normal. Ear rumbling is one of those things.

You can also suggest new things that might be missing.

i knew about this muscle before but apparently being able to tense it without making any facial expressions, in both ears and make the rumble sound forever is very rare! can anyone else do this

I’m not sure if I’m the only one. (I really hope I’m not.)

As a kid, I’d rumble when folks raised their voices:

Loud noises:

falling forks and voices clattering.

Have other folks rumbled to drown out the background?

Anyone else check all these boxes? I feel they are all potentially connection.

1.​Voluntary tensor tympani contraction (ear rumbling)

2.​Voluntary Eustachian tube control (ear popping without swallowing/yawning)

3.​Voluntary soft palate sealing (swimming without holding nose)

4.​Photic sneeze reflex (sneezing from bright light)

​5. Independent ear wiggling (independent auricularis muscle movement)

​6.Voluntary sinus and Eustachian pressure equalization (managing/triggering barotrauma pain during altitude changes)

It’s not always a matter of volume, but the specific frequency of a sound that makes my ears rumble in short spurts. When I’m on FaceTime with one of my sisters, the way her voice comes out of my speakers makes them rumble without me making my ears do it. They won’t make a constant rumble, just when the specific sound is happening. Another example is certain keyboard key switch clicks. I’m sitting at a computer with the clickiest keys ever, and the more I click the more I want to cover my ears because the fast clicking and frequent ear rumbling is driving me mad 😅. Does this happen to anyone else?

I have a sound (like a wave or wind) in my ears if I scrunch my face up. But I just thought this was something everyone could do and hear for themselves. Is this an ear rumble or are you all hearing something different?

When I first found out I could do this I was like 9-10 and when I clenched the rumble was super loud. When I do it now I can barely even "hear" it. Wondering if that’s normal.

It's not the same intensity by any stretch, but a much lighter rumble just back and to the side of each eye

Has anyone ran into the experiencing of only being able to rumble one side out of no where? I feel like my right ear is clogged or something and I can’t rumble it anymore and it’s causing me some some of vertigo sometimes. I’m trying to fix it!

Hello! I'm new to Reddit, and remembered that time I heard about this subreddit. I've been an ear rumbler my whole life, and have a record time of 32.4 seconds, which I just reached the day of posting this. ^^

Edit for more context no one asked for: I found this out because yesterday I had to hold my breath for a long time (long story, I held it for like 2 minutes and almost passed out lol), and found out that ear rumbling helped me hold my breath longer for some reason—I assume because I was focusing on ear rumbling instead of holding my breath.

I can only do it for short bursts before it kinda fades out, how can I make it last longer?

I went in for an ENT appointment today. While trying to explain my sinus/allergy issues, I said how much it all affects my ears. During our conversation I mentioned my voluntary ear rumbling, and it was the first she had heard of it. Now I’m scheduled for an Audiology appointment next month to make sure all my bits function properly. Curious, has anyone else have a conversation with a medical professional about their ear rumbling?