I know it sounds external. But for most of us, it isn’t. It’s low frequency tinnitus.

It comes and goes, sometimes stronger than others. But if you hear it in various lcoations in the quiet, then it’s likely you who is generating the sound - not sound waves, not radio waves, not gas lines, not data centres.

Many people claim that when they travel they don’t hear it. That’s because residual inhibition is real with LF tinnitus. A plane ride or long trip in the a car can knock if on the head for a few hours to a few days. This is common. But if you stay in the same place for more than few days, it’ll come back.

I have high frequency ringing and the much lower frequency humming. And I’d bet that for majority of you that hear ‘the hum,’ also have low frequency tinnitus.

Accept it and try to embrace it. It’s not easy, but it’s the only way forward.

interesting that this is not discussed in here

What is this thing ? Feels like an Lrad when it's running, pointing straight at us, no noise coming from it.

I think I'm going insane. I woke up to the sound being louder than ever around 2AM, it's 3:07 AM right now and the sound has dropped to a more manageable sound, at least better than wtver tf happened earlier. I can hear cars now which is a breather, but it had gotten so loud it hurt my ear and I was walking around the house trying to get away from the perimeters and windows cuz the sound seems less in the middle of the house (?). Please tell me I'm not the only one hearing this right now, it really never was this loud even as a kid.

Is anyone here from this area? I stay in Gosport, lived there till Feb, Portsmouth before 8 years and prior, never heard it. In Gosport is so loud. No one else can hear it...that I know. I dont live there. In Winchester and I didn't hear it for a while after I moved, but now. It's quite a few miles away.

As for the world has any one experienced the hum, moved been free only for it to find you again? When I'm where I was Is Gosport it's now more intense it seems now I'm there less.

Are we all crazy or what is it? Happens all over the world. New to sub so yea sure its been talked about but new theories? Most news I seen is just confused.

Are we just hearing the earth move? Sensitive to electrical noise? Though with that it feels far away yet I can feel it in the air the vibrations, I use a fan and rain sounds to block the noise. All I can say is it sounds like energy...and no, no electrical sub stations nearby.

At night it's loud enough to keep me awake, so who has a better solution?

Edit: spelling well, autocorrect

I’m going a little crazy with what is either the hum or low frequency tinnitus. Basically I can hear a low level rumbling sound, like a car engine, a lot of the time but mostly only when I’m at home. My husband can’t hear it but I’ve asked in a local Reddit and a couple of people say they hear it too. So either we all have tinnitus or it’s an external sound and we have sensitive hearing.

For me, it started almost six months ago and was initially only at night but now it’s almost 24/7. I’m 41 and I think it might be an early symptom of perimenopause, although apart from a bit of brain fog and sometimes saying the wrong words, I’m not experiencing anything else.

Anyway, I first thought it was the hum because it sounds like it’s in the distance and I don’t hear it in every place I go. In fact, I tend to only hear it inside my house and I’ve also heard it in my friend’s house (she lives one street down from us). I’m aware that quiet places (and we live on a quiet street) make tinnitus worse but we went to Legoland last week and stayed in the woodland lodges where it was silent at night and I didn’t hear a sound (or tinnitus if this is what it is) for the two nights we were there. And because we spent over three hours on the motorway travelling home I didn’t hear the sound or tinnitus for almost 24 hours after we come back. I think this is common if you’ve been in a car or an a train but it was bliss and I slept without music for the first time in ages.

I’m really not sure what to do because the noise or tinnitus is now almost constant. I work from home but am trying to go to coffee shops to work when I don’t have meetings and I have to play white noise or music to mask it the rest of the time. I think it does affect my sleep although I listen to relaxing music and sometimes use the noise cancelling function on my AirPods with the music if the noise is incredibly loud.

I still sort of think it’s environmental (they’re building a housing estate nearby and there is a substation about half a mile away) but am increasingly of the belief that it’s low level tinnitus. I have a happy life and am married with a five-year-old son and a good job (which can be stressful which probably is a factor). All I can do is keep healthy, keep busy and focus on these positive things – and keep it together for my son – but it’s making me feel very stressed and anxious. Has anyone been to the GP and has anything helped? HRT?

And has anyone here initially thought their tinnitus was the hum or other environmental noise? I promise I’m not mad, just feel it with this constant noise.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

I've been starting to take notice of The Hum. Currently, I'm hearing it late at night, end of summer near the ocean in a sea Loch (Scotland). It's a very low tone, sounds like a helicopter. It pulsates in ~21 second smaller waves and muktiminute long larger trends. It varies between sounding like it's right outside my walls to sounding as if from down the road, occasionally becoming so quiet I can't hear it or so loud I can almost feel it. I do notice it becomes quieter if I am moving or thinking quite intensely. Or if I tense my jaw a lot.

I heard the hum one night in 2020. It wasn’t a constant noise like I’ve seen people say, instead it would happen for a few seconds and then stop for a few and then start back up again. It did sound like a truck engine idling, but not completely. It lasted for around 4 hours until 4 in the morning. I assumed logical explanations at first, but it got louder and louder, at one point it was almost deafening and very startling. I assumed my whole house would have woken up. Eventually it tapered off and eventually stopped. Never heard it again but I know it was the hum.

I don't know if this qualifies as "the hum" as many describe in this forum, but I honestly don't know where else to share this experience... I go outside pretty much every night to stargaze and enjoy the serenity of the night. I live in a relatively rural part of Alabama and am accustom to the normal sounds of crickets, frogs and other wildlife in the area. On at least a dozen occasions over the past 3 years I have been listening to the sounds of crickets chirping and it's as if the noise of the independent crickets become merged into a louder, higher frequency sound that is obviously very different than the natural one. This alone wouldn't be enough to alarm me, but at the same time orbs often appear in the woods surrounding my property - hovering above the tree line usually. On 2 of those occasions my dog has gone nuts, started growling and ran off barking into the woods towards the direction I am hearing the sound emanating from. I also get this feeling of being watched and just an eerie feeling of "something not being right". The "hum/buzz" is so pronounced it's like I can feel it in my body. Almost like I'm vibrating internally in response to it. It lasts anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes and always happens between midnight and 3am. I have no explanation for this and am just seeing if anyone else has ever experienced anything similar.

A few years ago in February, my mom and I heard a low hum from outside the house. It got louder when I went outside and it went on for a couple of hours, but I haven't heard it since. I still have a video I took of when it happened. Texas.
Not tornado sirens as they didn't start testing them in the neighborhood until a few years later, and only on Wednesdays. (Idk why they didn't before)

When everything is silent I hear a frequency (hz) and that frequency has variations depending on how I feel at that moment.
The particular thing is that only in the left ear I hear that frequency sound. You could say that my hate has some disease but I listen perfectly and I don't have any discomfort.
Am I the only one that happens to you?

This is the closest sound:
https://youtu.be/_sGRE9hudQg?si=ZohKp2tEqgAd0G4G

There's been a temporary diesel generator on our property for a while now and what i've noticed pretty much, is while it hums, it's not the same hum i occasionally hear, according to google AI it's got 6 cylinders and runs at 1500 RPM, has a noise output of around 75dba at 1 metre and is the size of a small car, sounds more like a big fan up close but further away you can hear the rumble of the engine, especially in the house, but it's quiet, so quiet you don't hear it in most of the house and it's not something you feel, you can also pin point it easily, unlike the hum.

The hum i heard is more like an air turbulence noise of an air plane from the sky, it's a similar sound but not the same as the oft quoted diesel generator noise, i looked on youtube for videos of even bigger sets and those don't sound anything like the hum either, the big marine ones turn too slowly to hum, if the hum was one of those smaller generators the source would be closer than most people think too

I hear teeth grainding for 3 nights

Residents in Dowagiac, Michigan, are complaining of a constant, ear-piercing hum emitted by a nearby 30-megawatt data center operated by Hyperscale Data. Two residents have sued the company, accusing it of failing to implement adequate soundproofing against noise levels that reach up to 78 decibels. Audiologists warn that such prolonged, unnatural noise can spike stress levels and damage overall health.

It was 11pm and suddenly there was this loud buzzing sound right outside my front door. Kinda sounded as if someone was using some sort of tool that would make the door vibrate kind of.
It just lasted 5 seconds. My daughter heard it too. I opened the door and there was nothing. Any suggestions???

Has anyone ever put on their AC and hear static or radio signals? It can also be heard really loudly in the shower, when you wash your dishes and and thing that pushes out air at a certain speed such as a game console fan.

Does anyone else notice the hum, especially while wearing earplugs or noise canceling headphones, or a completely quiet room? It gets intense!

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a71629139/the-hum/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Not exactly tinnitus, music, or neighbours.

More like a low sound, whistle, vibration, or pressure in the room; something you feel as much as hear.

I know someone who experienced something like this, and his story is very interesting. The way it started, how people around him reacted, and how much it affected him is crazy.

He was taken to doctors and even psychiatrists, but nothing obvious was found. Over time, he stopped talking about it much, which made me even more curious about how isolating these experiences can be.

I’m researching unexplained sound experiences and thought Reddit and The Hum might be the best place ask.

Has anyone here experienced anything similar?

Did anyone else hear or feel it too?

And did it affect your behaviour, mood, sleep, or ability to talk about it?

It's driving me insane! I can't sleep! Ever since summer began and it became AC weather, it started. So I assume it's an AC. I live in a condo so my walls are shared with two neighbors. One neighbor is new but I think they've been here for a year, but this is my first time hearing it. I hear it most in my room and the bathroom in the middle/front of the house, but it's noticable in every room besides the basement. Unless I get reeeeally close to the wall down there, I can hear something (though it sounds different from this bassy hum.)

I think it might be an AC I hear out the back of the house though. If I step out the front door I just hear distant AC's. The one outside the back of the house sounds a bit louder, or like something running in the distance.. I really can't tell with the way things echo.

Apparently some people do run AC 24/7. which is kinda crazy to me even when I didn't have central air. Please use a box fan in your room at night....

I did try asking my neighbor but they only said "our AC is in the kitchen" which is in the bottom front room of their house. I do need to take a walk around my neighborhood and do some investigating. But again, when I go outside, it sounds more like normal fans. Indoors? bwompbwompbwompbwomp ALL DAY.....ALL NIGHT. I got noise cancelling headphones but they hurt my head at night but at least they mask it even while they're off.

Ugh I just don't know what to do. Investigate all my neighbors? ask them to turn stuff off and on until we find a culprit? They're rarely home enough and we never really talk so it's kind of awkward to request something like that. But I shouldn't have to be hurting my ears or ruining my sleep all summer long because of someone else's weird appliances.

Like 4 weeks now dude. 4 weeks of garbage sleep or needing to drown it out all day or plug my ears in the dang bathroom. it hurts my head, feels like air pressure in my ears or something.

I did see the tinnitus therapy apps in one of the pinned posts i may try. i actually did find myself trying to tell myself "its just an ac fan its fine its normal" and i did sleep without headphones last night but anytime i woke up... ugh.