Ears Sound
Autophony
Your own voice, breathing, or heartbeat sounds far too loud inside your head. It usually means a tube or a thin patch of bone is letting sound take a shortcut into the ear.
About 0.3–6.6% for patulous Eustachian tube
Sound
Noises the body makes or that you hear from inside it.
8 oddities.
Ears Sound
Ear clicking when swallowing
Every swallow opens a small tube between your throat and your middle ear for a fraction of a second. The faint click you can hear is that tube letting air through to balance the pressure.
Everyone
Organs Sound
Hiccups
A hiccup is a sudden jerk of the diaphragm followed by the voice box snapping shut. Everyone gets them, even before birth. The record case lasted 68 years.
Everyone
Brain Sound
Musical ear syndrome
Some people with hearing loss hear clear, complete music that no one is playing. The brain replays stored songs to fill the silence. The person knows the music is not real.
About 2–3% of people with profound hearing loss
Ears Sound
Pulsatile tinnitus
A whooshing or thumping in one ear that keeps time with your pulse. It is the sound of blood flowing near the ear. It is usually harmless, but it always deserves a check-up.
About 3–5% of people with tinnitus
Organs Sound
Stomach growling
The rumble from your belly is gas and liquid being pushed through your gut by waves of muscle. It is louder when you are hungry because there is less food to muffle it.
Everyone
Ears Sound
Tensor tympani thump
The low thump or rumble in your ears when you yawn, cough, or shout is a tiny middle ear muscle tensing to protect your hearing from your own noise.
Everyone
Ears Sound
The sound of silence
In a room that absorbs almost all sound, you hear your heartbeat, your blood, your breath, and a high ringing from your own inner ear. True silence is not possible for a living person.
Everyone, given a quiet enough room