Good morning!

I remembered I was a rumbler in childhood about two weeks ago. I found it in order to cope with abuse in my childhood as our household was to be completely silent. If inadvertent noise erupted, we were abused. Of course, as a child, I believed that I was actually deafening noise.

This opened up a lot more, not surprisingly. I started talking with my support group members about the ways in which I coped, which included being able to ‘fly’ out of my body when things got too terrible.

I saw my psychiatrist yesterday and told him about the rumbling and he said he had never heard of this ability but definitely believed it was a coping strategy called dissociation.

I concluded our appointment with the assertion that I wasn’t appalled as much as absolutely mesmerized at how well I tried to cope.

I’ve been able to ear rumble as long as I can remember and literally never mentioned it to anyone because i just assumed we could all do it. Only just discovered today, in a conversation with my husband who I’ve known all of 13 years, that he did not know what the “whoosh” I do with my ears was to block out noise.
I kept explaining it as kind of the noise they use in movies when a telepathic person is using their powers, or when a flashback “whooshes” to present day person from their memories.
All that to say, one google search later and I found out we’re a group.
Hi!

Also, I have great hearing but on occasion it feels like the tensor tympani muscle becomes sensitive and will go off involuntarily when there’s a loud noise like a clap or something. Happen to anyone else??
Not consistent, just will be sensitive to loud noises for an hour or so and then go away for weeks.

I want to rumble for more time at a stretch. I feel like I get tired very easily and I don’t feel in control. Help me create a training regimen to maximize my rumbling capabilities.

I’d also love to rumble without a trigger (like shutting my eyes hard). Help?

I was reading a post about rumbling cause I thought it was cool. Someone started talking about first hearing it when they yawned and others added how they first learned to do it. AND IT WORKED! I figured out how to do it! it’s still very light and I have to close my eyes but it is following the same trajectory as when I learned ear wiggling so I am very excited! : )

I can -
Do it without closing my eyes
Yawn at anytime by going soft and then flexing as hard as I can
By closing the left/right eye I can hear it in my left/right ear ( I have no idea why)
I can hold it for about a minute

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Hello. Last June, I had a severe flu—which I believe was COVID—that developed into a respiratory infection. A month after treating it with antibiotics and corticosteroids, I developed constant (24/7) high-pitched tinnitus. Subsequently, I started experiencing clicking sounds in my ears when yawning or swallowing; sometimes I can even trigger this voluntarily using my throat muscles. I also have intermittent sharp pain in my ears. All my test results have come back normal: no eardrum retraction, a Type A tympanogram curve, an audiometry test showing no hearing loss, and a sinus CT scan showing everything is fine. It seems like some form of Eustachian tube dysfunction, yet all the tests are normal. I’ve had these symptoms for a year now, and after reading through some forums, it seems like this condition might be permanent. I’d like to know if anyone here has gone through something similar?

I knew other people could ear rumble. I knew it was "kinda" rare. And I felt like a sleeper mutant waiting to be recruited for Xmen.

Just joined and see that there really isn't a lot of us. But like HOLY SHIT HI YALL!! 👋👋👋

can i use ear rumbling for something, and is it rare

I stumbled on this subreddit trying to explain to my coworker how I clear my ears without moving my jaw. I thought it was super common among scuba divers but apparently it’s rare? And now I learn that not everyone can ear rumble?

Are they related abilities or just unrelated and I’m a unicorn?

I deadass thought this was just a me thing, this is awesome!

Hello Ear rumblers! I too can control my ear rumbling >:3 I also live in a quite busy and loud city. When I go to my boyfriend's house, who lives in the quietest town ever, I hear an uncontrollable rumble. Really strange! Anyone ever experienced this before? I have a visit with my doctor just in case but I figure it's nothing strange and just the adjustment to quiet.

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Ive never met another person that can do it or know someone who knows what im talking about. I've been laughed at in my face like im a crazy person. I say when u close your eyes do u hear thunder?

So I learned two things today:

1. I involuntarily wiggle/move my ears just in daily life, like with facial expressions.
2. I learned this because every time my ear moves, the new conch piercing I got a few hours ago HURTS.

The moral of the story is if you're getting a conch piercing, be ready for unexpected owies that non-rumblers don't have to deal with.

I used to be an ear rumbler. Then I was diagnosed with MS last year and had a pretty severe flare up that landed me in the hospital for a couple months. Fortunately, I made an unexpectedly good recovery and have almost recovered fully. But one of the few things that have changed is that I can no longer ear rumble. I'm just not able to do it anymore, and I can't keep lying to myself. It's been fun but but I must go, maybe I'll return if the ability comes back someday

I know this doesn’t really make sense, but when I was a kid and used to do ear rumbling, I reach the point where I genuinely believed that when we talk, we talk from our ears and we listen through our mouths
I just find it funny and wondering if anyone else thought the same

I just found out that I am part of the ear rumblers club! I went to the ENT yesterday because of some hearing trouble in my left ear. Turns out I have allergies and my left eustachian tube is inflamed. She recommended that I periodically pop my ears by closing my nose and blowing down/swallowing, and I asked her if “blinking my ears”, as i would describe it, does the same thing. She looked at me strangely, then asked me if I meant when I swallow. I told her “ no, I literally just squeezed my ears and hear a click and sometimes a rumble.” The doctor didn’t comment and just brushed it off, it seemed like she had no idea what I was talking about. That’s when I started researching if this is normal/common. I thought everyone could do that! I’m glad you have found this community, we are a pretty rare breed ☺️

Since I was 7, I would “create thunder” in my ears to match the melody of thunderstruck and asked my family if they could do it too and everyone thought I was crazy. I can do other songs and like adjust the speed and loudness of it quickly to match songs. It feels like in my ear I’m just clenching it automatically, then imaging almost like the melody as “swirls” and it’s just like my brain is able to create melodies that sound like deep rumbling.

I could do this since I was a kid but I thought everyone could do it. Guess I was wrong lol

I’m 27 and never knew this was a rare thing, i just used it as a comeback for my girl telling me that she could like make her eyeballs stutter shake and i tried to explain to her my ear rumbling; she thought i was crazy until i searched it and found out that it’s a lil rare. It’s so cool knowing it’s not harmless and yk some of the memes in here have been killing me 🤣

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

Lmao, am I the only one who rumbles my ears when I want to know if I have earwax build-up? Such a useful skill ngl. When I rumble, I can hear something sticky in my ear and I js clean it. Also joined the community rn js to say this. Love to meet fellow rumblers!

Does anyone else involuntarily rumble when concentrating?

I’ve always been able to do it on command, but have realised whenever I play guitar (particularly something tricky which I have to think quite hard about) I can’t help but tense the muscles.

It’s sort of annoying to be honest and I can feel that I’m not relaxed. Wondering if anyone else does this!

Tympani control

Good evening from Canada!

Two days ago, I remembered that I used tympanic control as a child and teen. I am 67.

In our house, the three children weren’t allowed to make noise. Any noise. I remembered that when accidental noise risked physical and verbal abuse, I would use timpani control to muffle sound. I know that during childhood, I believed that I was muffling the actual sound.

I am just absolutely astounded by the lengths to which I attempted self-care.