Low frequency faint noise at night

Of course it is all happening inside your head Jerry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

a’ la: Dumbledore

Jerry, actually you’ve described your wife in other posts in ways that make me jealous. She seems quite the catch!

There’s a good song covered by Bonnie Raitt that applies here, in reverse: “Women be wise/ keep your mouth shut/don’t advertise your man!” Clearly Jerry is confident enough about his love not to worry. lucky man!

But if his low humm obsession continues into a full blown psychosis,  I might make a move.

not at all, you’re curious and having fun.

I keep trying to make this serious, when really you’re just noticing something and joking about it.

Maybe it’s high voltage lines off in the distance you hear:

Why do high voltage power lines hum or crackle?
The hum is being made by Corona Discharge. This basically happens when the electrons in the wire want to go to the air around it because it has such a high electromagnetic field. What’s going on is that the electric field gets so strong in the air around a wire that the electrons start to get pulled off their atoms and into the air. Usually air is an insulator around the wire but in this case it ionizes and becomes conductive plasma! So the noise happens when the voltage is too high for the air around it to handle before it breaks down and becomes a conductor.
Facts:

It is loudest at sharp points, corners, bolts, or any surface irregularities.
It can be affected by the condition of the temperature or air such as humidity, air density, wind, fog, rain, snow because they all change the electrical resistance of the air around the wire.
Dry air changes its mind about being an insulator and becomes a conductor at about 10 thousand volts per inch.
It’s not just loud but it actually wastes power, like a leaky pipe.
The voltage on distribution lines is low enough that this doesn’t happen, only transmission lines.

Cell phone towers emit a hum, different towers, different frequencies.

“SO, like an electromagnetic pulse modulated frequency then?”

or…Aum?

I watched a TED talk today on tinnitus. They theorized that it was hearing loss and what you hear is the brain compensating for the lack of sound .

Thanks for encouraging  me&me with your funniest line compliment……………..in spite of everyone saying “don’t encourage him”.

Hum(or) is where you find it……..or hear it.

Interesting recording jscott. The non verbal sounding and low frequency or background..MmmMMmmMM… as Jerry puts it.

Electromagnetic noise sounds more like this>[https://m.youtube.com/] ..Or tinnitus, at certain waveforms and lengths.

Give it some rhythm and beats, you’ve got the latest techno underground sensation.

Seems many things can affect hearing as those “hairs” can break and age just means more exposure (see loud rock musicians from the late 1960s).

Then there’s chemicals.  On another forum taking about military veterans, a former Air Force flight line technician recalled after being bit by a rattler at Nellie AFB (Las Vegas NV) on the desert flight line, he developed a case of tinnitus.  I’ve had on again/off again tinnitus after my last COVID booster that I’ve never had before, though aggravated by altitude.  May as well increase my 1-to-10 music volume, … turning it up to 11!  … (… Spinal Tap reference for those not in the know)