In this episode we listed adrenaline and epinephrine as two different hormones, but they are actually two names for the same hormone! Thanks to all the viewers who caught it!
Nice work on air-conducted sound. Please follow up with bone-conduction. Sound travels through our skulls, and at the extremes of age, those skulls are softer, able to pick up and transmit vibrations with greater amplitude, perhaps enough to physically bruise adjacent brain areas, with different parts of the skull picking up different harmonic frequencies, causing bruising in different places, and yielding different neurologic effects. This should fall under the heading of traumatic brain injury (TBI), and, because it must be repetitive, coming with every wave of sound pressure, the subcategory of chronic TBI (cTBI). American football players, in huge, loud arenas, are subject to crowd noise at such decibels. Donated brains from some who were expected to be control subjects (i.e., no history of concussion) are being found, on autopsy, to have signs of cTBI.
I'd like to suggest another correction: Tinnitus is pronouned TIN-it-us. The mispronunciation of tin-I-tis would end in "-itis", which translate to "inflammation of", and that buzzing in the ears is not "inflammation of the tin", though it is a very common mispronunciation.
P.S. Quick example of bone conduction of sound: Count to three. Now, plug your ears with your fingers, and count to three. The latter is louder, because of bone conduction. The distraction of air conduction is removed, and the finger pressure on the thinner, flimsier bones connected to where the fingers are holding firm leave the freer ends of those bone parts to vibrate more. After all, that energy has to go somewhere.
SciShow If a tree falls and no one is around to hear it does it actually make a “sound” ?? Or is sound only meant to be interpreted? For example, space...
My grandfather lost 80% of his hearing from serving in the navy. He has always reminded me to protect my hearing and I have taken his warnings to heart. I keep earplugs with me and use them whenever needed. Having Sensory Processing Disorder also means I am extra sensitive to sounds anyways so earplugs are a godsend.
I bet nearly every one that served in WWII had damaged his ears. One of my grandparents was too close to a bomb and was thrown down by the blast and was hit by multiple shrapnel. One of them was even lodged in his brain! He lost his sense of smell and was severely hearing impaired. If it also changed his personality I cannot say for sure.
@@edi9892 -I know a lot of guys who served even later ( Viet Nam, Gulf War ) that lost some hearing, from shooting rifles, even just on the practice range.
@@christelheadington1136 I think it's still a problem today: you want to be able to hear your enemy, but war is too damn loud once enemy contact occurs...
I'm on the autism spectrum and have a very similar problem. I'm hyper-sensitive with all my senses, but my worst is a sensitivity to sound, and the more sounds that happen at once, the more stressed I get until I just...well, snap, and have to go into a quiet room for an hour or more just to calm down. This problem is because people with autistic brains don't process things individually; we process everything. At once. People keep telling me it's cool to have super-senses, like I'm a real life superhero, but I keep telling them "No! It sucks!" It's why when going to movies I have to wear sound attenuation ear plugs that are usually supposed to be used at concerts.
@@WildFyreful I know how that feels. I´m not autistic, but I did suffer from burn out and depression and I got at times quite sensitive to sounds and smells. I must add that I seem to have hyperosmia. This means that rotten food can even on a good day make me puke just from getting a single breath of the stench. During my PhD, which was the cause of my stress, I had a female colleague that had a strong smell on good days and irritated my nose during her period to the point that I sneezed whenever she got too close! When I got agitated, this could get so bad that I could actually track her like a dog, as one minute after she walked by, I could still smell her trail! Her sitting on a textile clad chair meant that I could smell it even hours later. This was both super weird, gross and awkward. Since I didn´t dare to talk to her about her lack of hygiene directly (she was very easy to offend even when no-one tried to and she was quite possibly autistic on top, which made communicating with her quite hard) I made it a habit of greeting her by name before she came into view in the hope that she´d figure out on her own that I do recognise her by her smell... It didn´t have the desired effect, but creeped her out...
Drummer here: I always wear earplugs while playing. Even musician's earplugs (which attenuate 15-20dB) are enough to save your ears. I find it actually gives me a better sense of what the drums will sound like to the audience.
putting those earplugs into your ears can create so much noise it harms your hearing. no kidding. even whisper can be louder than rocket plane, if it is so close to ear.
@@cai6972 also your finger in your ear is not sound amplifier. but it creates sounds you can hear and that sound can hurt your hearing if you messing with your finger too much. putting ear plug into your ear generates sounds. this sound can be so loud it can hurt your hearing. so what is your point?
@@marian20012 - Yes, inserting earplugs does make noise, but if it sounds like a rocket plane, you're either putting them in wrong, or you need to invest in different earplugs.
@@stevepowsinger733 SciShow is also guilty of the, let's call it "THX Effect". I.e. the intro blasting your eardrums, only to be followed by a quieter video.
Yeah, all those clubbing for definitely more than 15 minutes and playing UT and CS with headphones definitely did a number on my ears. I was young and no one warned me so now I have to live with this constant ringing in my ears.
As a human biologist, I think that research on hearing is truly fascinating! Current studies aim to restore hearing loss in deaf patients through a new field of molecular biology, called optogenetics. Optogenetics is a scientific discipline in which we manipulate the activity of neurons in the ear by introducing certain genes into them. We can then stimulate these neurons by light, meaning that the neurons become activated. In this manner, we might be able to build complex hearing aids consisting of tiny LEDs which are so precise that patients might become able to hear much better than normal people (I actually made a video about this a while ago)! Although a lot of research has still do be conducted until this works, I think that's it's a truly revolutionary approach.
How would this help (would it?) someone like me who not only is deaf but has APD (audio processing disorder). What little I can hear is commonly distorted, which is incredibly frustrating for all involved. Would this help at all?
@ Not quite. The same way that all sensory input is turned into electrical signals for your brain, they "manipulate the activity of neurons in the ear" to allow light signals digitally created and sent to LED's to initiate electrical signals into the brain. Because it's the hearing neurons they are doing this to, your brain will interpret it as sound.
Between trains, planes, sirens, gas powered landscaping equipment, and barking dogs, I have moments where I feel like I'm about to go insane. I've taken to wearing my noise cancelling headphones during the day without input just to block out some of the noise annoyance that constantly surrounds me. I'd give anything to live in a nice quiet and remote mountain area.
I find it funny how people get annoyed at background noise like that because SILENCE drives me batty. Like a library? Nononono, I need at least some kind of noise. I like random sounds outside the window and such. Then again I grew up 30ft from a train track and it went by a few times every day, shook stuff in the house. I completely stopped noticing it after a while. But ughh no silence. D:
Whoopsy Daisy - I live in a loud city too, and cannot live without a white noise machine at night. Having lived in a small city, and a rural area, I can tell you the rural area was very noisy and it took a whole month before I could sleep, though I like nature sounds a lot better than deliberately inconsiderate human a**holes. The quietest by far was the small city of 32,000. It was dead quiet at night, so if that is what you desire, you might not need to go off the grid to get it. :-)
@@trainjackson63 how can a library be completely silent? Pages rustling, people moving. But again, I'm really sensitive to sounds and my hearing is good (I care a lot about my ears, and I hear rather quiet sounds pretty well). After all, I've never experienced complete silence, but I've experienced the kind where I got scared about everything being so quiet, so I do understand how silence can be scary. But that's only possible at night if you live alone, other quiet places are definitely not so quiet...
reminds me of a noise-lowering study done in a NICU where I used to work, because all the premature babies needed better sleep for growth...we appreciated the lower noise levels too =D
Re: noise at night, I failed college because the person living below me in my dorm building had delusions of becoming a rapper and thought he needed to stay up till 2am "recording" every night. I had to be awake at 5am for class. Yeah. I went to everyone to try to get it stopped but no one really cared.
adriengriffon Sometimes when you go to "everyone" and you don't get the desired result, it may pay to go to a local gangster, mafia wannabe, biker gang, local ruffians, etc. Explaining the problem, showing a photo, flashing a wad of cash ( half up front ), and letting the ex-con or whoever solve the problem. They have fun while earning some spending money. Win-win ...
As a person that suffers from severe tinnitus, I implore those reading this: protect your hearing when at all possible, don't be an idiot like me and think your young and invincible, or 'meh it's no big deal'. Tinnitus is relentless and maddening. When I first got it I thought I was going to lose my sanity, literally. Now I'm partially, sometimes accustomed to it, but it's still highly irritating. Imagine standing next to a bell a few seconds after it has been rung...that is your life FOREVER if you damage your hearing.
While I agree, some of us just end up with tinnitus anyway. Never liked headphones and went to maybe 7 concerts in my whole life. And I'm a decade deep in chronic tinnitus. My only saving grace has been "meditating" using Wim Hoff breathing which for some reason resets my anxiety/panic response to my tinnitus, as far as I can tell anyway.
@@izzikat9252 ~ Yes, Wim Hof's techniques are amazing, been on his program for a couple years now. It definitely helps to take the edge off the ringing, or at least allows me to ignore it more readily.
I got really sick about 8 yrs ago. It left my drum scared permanently.. it got so hard to hear that I started wearing headphones with my phone so I can hear it ring while out /work so family/ my doctors can get in contact.. my tinnitus drives me nuts I cant hear my coworkers when its happening.. and have to focus when it's not.our Restaurant can be louder then 85 decibels on a normal day.. and naive people/coworkers see me in public with my bluetooth and assume my "music" caused my impairment.. one even started yelling at me about it. The next day asks me to answer the phone at work.. lol even thou I cant hear the customer on the other end.. some people just need to learn so decency. Respect your fellows!
@@matthewharris-levesque5809 Eggs is amateur, to really give an impact keep a warm can of coca cola in your car and a cup. When ready whip the coke on to their car.
I can tolerate a car with a subwoofer, but noisy exhaust pipes are the worst, especially when they’ve deliberately made them that way. We get it! You’re genitals are small, and you’re marking your territory with noise.
@@setcheck67 Hmm... my suggestion was influenced by the fact that it's below freezing here at the moment. Frozen egg is amazingly hard to remove from a windshield. The coke might ruin the paint a bit, but the egg all over the viewport makes the car illegal to drive.
Hank: “One risky behavior many of us do every day is listening to music through our headphones.” Me, watching this video with my headphones in: *chuckles* I’m in danger
On TH-cam with headphones you kinda are. Moving from a really soft audio video where you need to turn up the volume, to a video with too loud audio suddenly blasting your poor ear holes.
As someone with hyperacusis and tinnitus, thank you so much for talking about this! Noise pollution is a pretty painful part of life, especially living in the city with no ability to leave 😭 I hope more people will begin to take noise levels and their impact on people much more seriously!
Try noise cancelling headphones. Many of them let you turn on ANC without having to have sound, like music, coming in to them to work. They'll just help block it all out.
I doubt people will change their habits. They’ll probably react the way they normally do when they find out something they like harms others, with anger, defensiveness, and righteous indignation. How dare you ask me not to bathe in body spray because of your asthma and allergies! How dare you tell me my preferred retailer is horrible to their workers, local community, and environment! How dare you not eat my delicious peanut butter bars because of your so called allergy! People suck!
Getting sound isolating ear buds is one of the best investments I've made. When we're listening to music and things get loud around our reaction is usually to raise the volume so we can easily hear the music over the noise. This obviously just makes for more sound and doesn't actually remove any outside noise, so listening to 70% for 8h will only be safe in quieter environments and will still be straining. I used to work in a factory, a loud environment, and with sound proofed ear buds (or sound proofed over-ear head phones, if you don't mind the size) I don't ever have to go over 40% volume. And it saves so much strain for me, because noise over time is very tiring, and it protects the limited resource that our hearing is.
Sound isolating means the headphone physically blocks sounds from outside, so you can hear what’s coming through the headphones better. Sound cancelling electronically adds sound to cancel out certain sounds from your surroundings. I find that sound cancelling is excellent for blocking things like airplane noise, the a/c, and the like. They’re not great for blocking other people talking. Then again, that may be a good thing in some circumstances. :)
Fire fighters have one of the highest occupational heart attack rates. This is believed to be because they are regularly awoken by loud firehouse sirens. Long haul truck drivers can suffer deafness due to the often constant, high dB rate in their cabins.
In the UK, clubs are supposed to give free earplugs at the bar. Saved me so many times! Much more enjoyable, less tinnitus, Bass is still in your face :'D
I have a problem with earplugs at concerts. All I've tried so far let too much bass through. That drives ears into distortion, and makes the sound very unpleasant and unrecognizable. I am yet to find a solution. I had Nokia headphones I got with my Lumia that worked brilliantly for the purpose, but I lost them unfortunately =(
This explains so much. I'm noise-sensitive so i bought earplugs that only blocked about 10 dB of volume. I worried that it would not be enough but it changed everything! This video has really helped me understand why the 'small' difference of 10 dB allows me to comfortably endure a scooter shooting by!
I wear noise-cancelling headphones when I can to help reduce noice in the city I live in. Outside, I have to keep the cancelling low enough to maintain situational awareness, but inside I crank it up to 10 whenever I can. As a result, I can turn down audio anywhere from 20-70% lower than if I were using AirPods or something. Honestly, these headphones were some of the best money I ever spent; they legitimately changed my relationship with sound. Watching movies on a plane no longer harms my ears! Woohoo!
Man, this episode brings back bad memories from school. I have hypersensitivity, and in some kind of sick joke, I also ended up in the noisiest class at the whole school. Seriously, even now it boggles my mind with just how loud it was. It was actually so bad I had to cut class frequently to not go insane from the it whenever we had lessons with the full class. Not only that, but there are frequent occasions were teachers left the class with ringing in their ears, and other where teachers from other classes came over and tried to inform us that the class was too loud, from two classrooms away. Is it any wonder that my grades tanked.
My school is always so loud with announcements and assemblies. It hurts so much and I end up crying a lot. I always complain about it but they don't do anything.
@@insioni I do. And headphones meant for hunting. I'm also sensitive to getting ear infections, which is fun. Wearing both of them at once makes the hallway + bells almost inaudible but spirit week type assemblies are still too loud.
This makes me even more grateful we live in a forest! The loudest sounds we hear are owls and coyotes...well, the coyotes can be pretty loud, but it’s not constant and not daily.
sandy roberts-anderson, some nature sounds are godawful! Opossums fighting over mates, young raccoons having arguments that sound like they’re being tortured to death, you know what I’m talking about!
“You wanna keep the slider around 70% or less” Do people actually put it that loud? I typically have mine around 30% and at most go to 50% for a quiet video...
I guess most of the music I listen to is recorded pretty quietly, because 70% makes the volume somewhere around pianissimo on my piano. I need to put it to max to be able to hear it properly. In contrast, I put most videos down to like 40%.
I have to visit almost all the hospitals in my city. I think the biggest factor to how loud some hospitals are compared to others is mostly architectural. Thicker walls and thicker doors block a lot. Carpeting can do a surprising amount. Hallways that curve to block sound makes a bid difference. Nurses stations that are tucked away rather than in the middle of an open floor plan. Everything else is so hard to control
I've had a constant ringing in my ears for as long as I can remember (even as a small kid). It's not super bad, but if it's quiet it can get kind of annoying (to the point where I have to have the fan on to drown it out), or if I pay attention to it it overwhelms everything else (kind of like when you breathe manually and then panic that you'll never be able to go on "autopilot" again). Pair that with OCD and you've got a recipe for disaster. I had always thought *some* ringing in the ear was perfectly normal and that everyone had some and heard it if it was quiet enough. You're telling me that people exist who don't have a constant 6000hz sine-wave in the background of every waking moment of their lives? What a life. Color me green, because I'm jelly.
I have a lot of anxiety triggers and I'm working on managing them and reducing their impact. But the sound related ones are the hardest to break, especially low frequency noises. It's good to know there's an actual neuroscience reason for that. Oh, and I absolutely love foam earplugs. I carry some in my purse all the time and they make life so much better. I find I usually like things a bit quieter than other people, so having a convenient volume adapter is great. I've introduced my roommate to them and now she can't sleep without them. I've found I can hear other people talk about as well as without earplugs. After all, they're going to be talking louder in a noisy environment. The main issue is that I tend to speak more quietly with earplugs in. It takes a bit of practice, but if you have friends to give feedback, you can adjust your speaking volume pretty quickly.
Just FYI - "noise-canceling" headphones do not reduce the volume of sound to your ears and in fact work by producing 'extra' sound that tricks your brain into thinking you're not hearing things. Your ears are still getting a lot of sound pressure in this case. What you want is "noise-reducing" or "isolating" headphones that physically block sound from entering the ear. Really amazing video, BTW... Definitely sheds some light on my own life in a noisy area. Without realizing it, I've started wearing my IEMs with noise isolating tips all day while at work downtown. I mostly don't have anything playing and can still talk with people, everything is just turned down by maybe 10 dBa. It definitely helps me to feel less pressured.
Audiology graduate student here. Please make sure you are putting in your earplugs correctly! If the earplugs are sticking several cm out of your ears (like in the picture) they aren't going to be nearly as effective. Best way to insert is to roll the foam so it is very small, pull back and up on the outer ear (called the pinna) and hold while gently pushing the foam deep into the canal. Let go of the pinna, but then WAIT to let the foam expand and fill your ear before exposing yourself to loud sounds. Happy, safe listening everyone!
That's how my dad showed me to do it (not sure how he knew, but he's been in construction and healthcare) Disturbed him to no end when I'd only do it to my hearing ear. Not sure why, though it may've been just an over-abundance of caution.
In highschool i am odd for listening to music not on 100% but this is more proof why its better. Thank you Hank! More fuel for me to turn the volume down, i wish others could see this video. 11th Like and 74 views!
Those looking for Hanks music: (Hank Green albums) So Jokes (2008) I'm So Bad at This: Live! (2009) This Machine Pwns n00bs (2009) Ellen Hardcastle (2011) (Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers album) Incongruent (2014) More info can be found on his Wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Green
When you leave the pub in a group and continue your conversations on the way by stopping below other people's flats ( yes, that’s what all those those windows are) please remember that you are shouting at the top of your lungs and waking everyone one in all of the surrounding buildings up. You don’t think you are, but you are. Looking at you, Scotland!
Take care of your ears. I'm a former professional musician, and was reckless. Today I live with massive chronic pain, tinnitus and hyperacusis. Trust me. You don't want to be where I am.
I worked in an office where they decided to put in a stairwell to the floor below. Which mean cutting a hole. Through foot-thick concrete full of steel rebar. Gotta love old mill buildings. They worked at night and on weekends. I was scheduled nights and weekends. Tons of fun trying to have a conversation on the phone next to what amounted to mining equipment in full swing.
A subject near and dear to the hearts of many musicians. Definitely a source of frustration when an audience member oblivious to their own hearing health and those around them cries "turn up the bass!"
Just wait until you get someone with a Sub-Woofer and an addiction to the Jurassic Park (or Lincoln Park) franchise(s). That's when it becomes an invitation to engage in criminal offenses.... especially when they feel they have the right and the muscle to "live the way they want to live"...
put outdoor extremely loud music concert in that category as well, in reality they can bang each of their head in home to a wall to satisfy their ear drum crushing fetish
Apartment living is one of those annoyingly louder than you expected experiences! Those effects are real!! Drove me crazy in my last apartment! When I could hear the noise through my walls over music or audio from videos on my headphones...
omg i lived in a cove on my island, and one summer there was a guy who rented next door for a month and he always had talk radio on and i felt like it echoed in the entire cove. i couldn't think. it wasnt like when someone played something inside their home. he was outside and his noise echoed everywhere. it made me angry. i used to play my music loudly when i walked home, because i didnt want humans to bother me. now i realize i bothered earth's life affirming heartbeat. my cove is usually free flowing, but in that moment it felt like stagnation. there is no "silence". in vacuum space, maybe. but the "silence" you hear is earth's natural heartbeat.
I would love to see something about sudden hear loss. That's what happened to me a couple years ago. The scary part is that I have to live without a definitive diagnostic other than "this happens, and we don't know why". And I'm lucky, considering I only lost the left side. Thank you guys so much for this incredible content.
@@mantha6912 It happened instantly. I got violently dizzy and disoriented. When someone offered to help me I noticed there was something wrong. I had my eyes closed because I was very sick. The voice came from my right, but when I opened my eyes, I had to look to the other side. That was terrifying.
I used to live in Munich right by the airport. The planes took off right over our apartment buildings I was in the Army stationed at MacGraw kaserne. And it was very loud and very annoying. Now I live in a town where a train goes through the town but it's actually enjoyable to hear.
Having lived a huge part of my life in downtown of very busy cities, I've basically had mild Tinnitus all my life. In fact. I remember, as a child, asking someone what that noise was i heard when all other external noises were stopped (or I plugged my ears) and was offered the answer that it was normal and just the sound of blood rushing through my veins. It wasn't until almost 30 years later that i realized it was tinnitus.
i've had tinnitus as long as i could remember. my dad has it too, but to my knowledge only got it after serving in the army. my grandpa has it too, but to my knowledge only after doing metalwork for a while
When I watched Beowulf I was rooting for Grendal.... When I hear loud noises from outside my home, inside my home, it can trigger a fight or flight response in me that makes me feel like I'm under attack. It's hard to describe but a loud car stereo, constant barking from a neighbors dog can raise my stress levels to the point that I can't concentrate and I honestly feel like I'm being attacked with sound. It's mostly to do with the noise being somewhere I require quiet, like my bedroom, being unable to block the sound (you can hear it even over the radio or with headphones on), and the sound occurring daily for long periods. Basically the louder it is, the more it happens, the worse it feels. Eventually if it doesn't stop, you actually become more sensitive to the sound over time rather than getting used to it. I've never wanted to live far away from other people so badly as I have since a barking dog neighbor from hell, and loud car stereos invaded my home.
I honestly believe people should have to get licenses to have dogs. The majority of people I've lived around do not properly care for and provide exercise for their dogs, nor do they train and socialize them. It makes them an absolute menace and it's psychological torture to live around.
Lloyd2112DT, misophonia is a negative response to specific trigger sounds like chewing, pen clicking, or other repetitive sounds, regardless of volume. If my ears detect the squish of someone chewing gum, I get incredibly annoyed, like to the point I’m surprised misophonia hasn’t caused more homicides. It’s not an exaggerated fight or flight response, just a visceral hatred of certain sounds.
@@evilsharkey8954 It's not the sounds themselves, it's the fact they are undesired and unable to be ignored. It feels like an attack or intrusion. When you're in your bedroom with earplugs in and you still hear it, you've retreated as far as you can and if the sound doesn't stop it's like torture. You know it's bad when you wish you were deaf so you could get some peace, and yet you're a music lover.
The video makes mention of our ears being evolved to be a first warning system, and that's what it feels like. A barking dog is a warning, but when the dog barks constantly day after day, year after year, it really wears you out from the constant 'somethings wrong' feeling. My mind latches onto any sound and tries to analyze it, what am I hearing, where is it coming from, and I am unable to shut that part of my mind off without drowning it in other sound like a loud fan, or ironically really loud music on headphones, both of which are not good for your hearing long term. Car stereos are the worst though because no earplug or noise cancelling headphone in the world can block the low frequencies of bass.
My grandfather was in denial about his hearing loss for years and now that he has hearing aids he’s continuing to isolate himself by turning them off mid conversation. It’s sad what avoiding getting help can do to a person.
Am I missing something or is the line "Cortisol, Adrenalin and Epinephrin" at 9:40 somewhat stange, as Adrenalin and Epinephrin are two names for the same hormone. That's like saying "Sand, Water and H2O" for describing a beach. Don't want to be the "ummm, actually" type, please correct me if there is a tangible difference between Epi and Adrenalin.
Thank you very much for this episode and raising the awareness for the importance of protecting our hearing. I‘ve „caught“ a tinnitus in early july and it‘s been hard to deal with, especially in the beginning. Do take care of your ears, maybe turn the music down a little. Again, thank you very much.
I'm 19 and have had tinnitus for Years, as long as I can remember. I just don't know why I have it, I do everything I can to protect my ears. I've got to the point now where I know there is no hope of it going away
@@willstokes7266 It came out of nowhere for me, too. I guess I was quite annoyed at some friends the day it appeared, but other than that? I only hear music very quietly because I've been afraid of tinnitus since 7th grade music class. Thankfully I've gotten better at dealing with it. Best of wishes to you, even if you say you've given up, I hope it gets better.
@@azralan618 I've looked for treatments and all of that, but there isn't anything "proper" just therapy sort of treatments. We will have to wait and see what the wonders of modern medicine can do. I had it for years not knowing what it was and just accepted it and got on with life. Thank you, you too
I feel your pain, i first got it in my junior year of college and it was distressing. It got worse for a few year until it finally evened out. I frankly ignored it, but a recent unprovoked panic attack over it brought me back to square one and it was all I can think about! It has gotten better and continues to. If its distressing you a lot, go to a doctor and they will send you to a hearing specialist. If nothing comes up, try masking it with white noise or nature sounds and CBT therapy help with the anxiety. Yoi are not alone, and it does get better. Best of luck to you.
My time to shine! I worked as a tech in an audiology clinic in the Navy during my time as a corpsman, and it's always great to see hearing conservation because not enough people are educated on how common the dangers are or that hearing loss is permanent. I dunno if anyone is curious about hearing conservation, but ask away, I guess. By the way, my audiologist taught me that tinnitus is pronounced "TIN-ih-tuhs," instead of "tin-EYE-təs," which is how I'd always said it. "-itis" implies inflammation.
Do you think that people with tinnitus are more prone to stress related issues than those without tinnitus that experience low level noise like distant traffic etc? I experience tinnitus myself and I feel I deal with it quite well most of the time, but I sometimes have moments when it really hits me that I'm going to hear this noise in my head for the rest of my life. I will never again experience silence or have a truly quiet moment. I get a bit existential about it sometimes 😬
@@vrilginitymaxxer There are a couple I can recommend. The best, unfortunately, is prevention. I use a white noise generator when I sleep to help cover up the ringing. There are special machines for this (talk to your doctor or ask for a referral to an audiologist if you have insurance), but there are plenty of good websites and apps that will do exactly the same job for free. I highly recommend SimplyNoise and RainyMood. I use both and they are excellent. Just make sure screen light won't interfere with your sleep! I know that some people use television as background noise when they sleep, but I *strongly* urge against this for several reasons. I can explain those if you like. I also recommend buying some soft foam or silicone earplugs (Quattros get my rrcommendation for a mix of low price, comfort, and near impossibility to put in wrong). Put these in for the last couple hours *before* bed to give your ears the equivalent of a power nap. This helps reduce what you'll hear during bedtime. Lastly, remember that just because you're getting rest all night does not mean your ears are. For a little over a year while I was overseas, the head of my bed was right next to a fan unit, so I slept with ear plugs and used a vibrating alarm to wake up (and asked my neighbor to punch me if it woke him up). Always be aware of the things around you that can put stress on your hearing apparatus, and try to reduce volume, reduce time of exposure, and increase distance whenever possible. Let me know if this helps!
@@jennivamp5 That's an excellent question, and I would say it depends, but in my professional opinion, generally yes. It's easier for me to help resolve low-level long-exposure noise complaints - which are also dangerous, by the way: think of it as just walking instead of running, but if you're walking for 12 hours a day, your feet would hurt, wouldn't they? Stress and tinnitus go hand in hand, and since all tinnitus is sensorineural in origin, stress can make tinnitus worse, which worsens stress, in a vicious feedback loop. I would say don't give up hope. I have pretty significant tinnitus from a few incidents where I was unable to prepare and protect my ears because of my line of work, but there are ways. If you read my above comment, I have some tips. As someone who also loves a silent moment, I can tell you that with a bit of meditation, a good, quiet room, and a little static or rain sounds (plus some practice), you might be surprised with the peace and quiet you can achieve.
@@vrilginitymaxxer Oh! I completely left out the second half. Do you smoke? Smoking significantly worsens tinnitus among its other deleterious health effects, so I'd look into a tobacco cessation program if you do. A number of medications are ototoxic, meaning they affect your ears in a variety of subtle but unpleasant ways. Talk to your doctor (or let me know if you want some more discreet advice) about what medications you may be taking and whether they might be causing some of that tinnitus. Alcohol has two effects on hearing: a very significant temporary increase while you are intoxicated, sometimes incredibly loud (one of several reasons I don't really drink anymore), and then a longer-lasting, quiet ringing that may persist for several days. Lastly, if the ringing is lopsided, or only in one ear, and happens simultaneously with tingling and numbness, see a doctor as soon as you are able. Note: having a brief, sudden, quiet ring in one ear is very normal. I get them, too. If it is very loud, or persists for several hours on one side, mention it to your doctor or audiologist. They can take a closer look and run some tests.
Movie theaters (at least in the US) have also decided in the last couple decades that louder is better, so bring earplugs there, too. They also help block the sounds of chewing popcorn and jerks talking.
I'm autistic and noise annoyances cause severe sensory issues. Can't focus, get super angry, and it doesn't stop until I'm free of the cause. It's caused problems in relationships. It's no joke.
Elliott Lars Olsen, any noises or just certain sounds, like chewing or pen clicking? You might have misophonia, too, a strong negative reaction to certain repetitive noises like chewing, tapping, etc.
Hearing loss runs in my dad’s family. We start being unable to understand conversation if there is background noise in our 30s and deaf to much more by our 60s. Consequently, I’ve always used ear protection at church and concerts and when using power equipment. My hearing (I’m 60) is now noticeably better than my siblings, but still worse than the general population.
@introvert yeah it's not fear, it's the same "annoyance" stress response as other people and/or pain, just with way lower thresholds. White noise machines are nightmares.
I live on a main road with heavy lorries, delivery / harley davidson bikes, public transportation ... all with just single glazed windows. I can hear and feel the noise from the outside. It's honestly horrible! I have tried explaining this to my agency and they are resistant on doing anything about it. Can't wait to move out! Glad to have watched this as I knew something wasn't right. I hate being so stressed when I'm home trying to relax 😫🥺guess I'm going to buy loads of earplugs lol
I'd love to see a future video about the organ of Corti and the outer hair cells because I only recently learned about how they mechanically amplify sounds and it is amazing.
5:15 I would revise that quote as the volume a device outputs is based on the headphones used with the device as headphones or speakers can be more or less efficient taking more or less power. I am assuming this is with the stock ear buds that come with the phone. Over ear headphones are far less efficient than ear buds and depending on the technology, the size of the driver, the material of the driver, and how the headphones deal with sealing if they are closed back also effects the efficiency. Planar magnetic headphones are well known for being so inefficient most phones are barely usable with them. For my phone I needed to turn the entire equilizer all the way up, turn on a 30 voltage overclock and only then is it loud enough to use. Though in the car certain songs are still a bit quite even at 100%.
I recently moved due to noise disturbances in my area, partially caused by other residents (management told me that "their hands are tied" with regards to doing anything about it). The new place is much much better, though I still need drugs to actually make it all the way through the night.
I saw the Rock Group "KISS" at an indoor arena during their world tour in 1975. My ears are still ringing from that concert. Seriously my ears did ring and/or buzz for 3 days afterwards. I believe the next year the federal government put limits upon indoor concert decibel levels...
I'm guessing it's only for indoor concerts since in 2009 KISS played loud enough that listening to them for even a second resulted in hearing damage. Even the highest rated earplugs only made it safe to listen to them for 15 minutes.
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You should also mention people who live in an apartments with thin walls. I have lived in 3 different apartments, and every single place has had PAPER THIN walls and I have mostly had neighbors who don't care about trying to be reasonable about noise. I am not aware of any apartments in my area that are any better. I'd love to have a house without shared walls, but it's extremely hard to find houses for rent in my small town, and on top of that, I'm single and the added expense of renting a house is impractical for just one person. And I am fully aware that you can still hear noises in a house, but at least it's not so up close and personal like apartment living.
So, I remember a while back when someone debunked the idea of sitting too close to the TV affecting your eyesight negatively, pointing out that it was far more likely that sitting too close to the TV was actually an indicator of poor eyesight itself, not a cause. I wonder if there's a possibility that such an inverse correlation exists with loud music on headphones as well?
That's why I prefer headphones over earphones because as I know the latter is worse for you. Really interesting video. My second video is out and I hope you will like it 😊.
Will be going in to hospital next week for a major operation, & I'll be taking ear-plugs like I did for an op 11yrs ago, but usually having things in my ears I find it really irritating!
Lost most of my hearing temporarily last summer due to a bad cold (that's what colds can do to you when you're 60). After getting over the initial anxiety and disorientation, I actually found the hearing loss oddly calming. It also made me realize how noisy the modern world is. Fortunately after a few months almost all of my hearing returned (all in one ear and most in the other). However while I've long worn earplugs to sleep, I'm now considering wearing them when awake, at least in some situations. Wouldn't it be great if our ears came with a volume control.
*too. Comment when you have a grasp of the English language. Sentences end with what we call a period. If you want to use the word "'cause" you need you use an apostrophe as in 'cause. Good luck.
I know this is an older video and nobody who world at the channel will see this but, I think it would be very interesting if there was a study based on how public schools and schools in general the loud environment could be affecting students in particular high schools which are one of the louder schools I've personally done tests in elementary middle high school and colleges and I found high schools to be the loudest by far I think it would be very interesting for people who are quite a bit smarter than I am to see if they can put numbers like these to use.
I was on a medication that gave me really bad tinnitus for a week. Like, please-talk-louder-because-I-can't-hear-you-over-my-tinnitus level of "bad". I know your pain brother :(
Me, who occasionally gets episodes of being unable to handle any sound except very quiet background noise and the ringing in my ears because anything else feels like it's rubbing against my eardrums the wrong way: yeah i feel you
Now imagine that withouth you trying you automatically focus on all the sounds at once and you will hear more sounds that are less loud that others cant hear, but actually are there and it always being that way for ur entire life.
I wonder: if a deaf person consistently goes into “noisy” environments, will their eardrums still get messed up even if they couldn’t hear anything in the first place? Can they even GET tinnitus?
It depends on the type of deafness they have and what is causing their deafness. If their deafness is due to damage of the auditory nerves but the mechanics of the inner ear are intact then yes they can still suffer damage to their inner ear from loud noises but won't necessarily perceive the damage in the same way as the sound information is not reaching the brain via the auditory nerve. People who are deaf can often feel loud noises as vibration in the body or as pressure in the ear even if that pressure isn't translated into sound by the brain. If someone is deaf because they were born without the bones of the inner ear then loud noises probably wouldn't affect them as much as the vibrations would not be passed directly to the cochlear from the eardrum via the bones. There mechanics behind hearing are complex and multilayered and a person's condition or experience of deafness may be very different depending on the cause of the deafness even if the symptoms end up seeming the same.
I'm an autistic hearing person, I get pretty mild tinnitus, but it rarely just /sounds/ like ringing. It's not the same as someone ringing a bell in the same room. It's like a ringing /inside your head/. It's not loud but it feels the same way loud noise does. Just some insight.
In my city, the local events center allows a promoter to contract their facility for seasonal rave events. They go way past municipal quiet times and the idiots that run the city were easily placated by the promoters' promise to "point the speakers in a different direction". meanwhile, a couple miles from the facility, their subs are measurable with an SPL meter app on my phone at 1 am. makes me feel like I'm freaking out.
Noise-dampening earplugs are great for concerts, they let you still here the people talking to you AND the music. Apps like SoundPrint are lifesavers, too.
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Nice work on air-conducted sound. Please follow up with bone-conduction. Sound travels through our skulls, and at the extremes of age, those skulls are softer, able to pick up and transmit vibrations with greater amplitude, perhaps enough to physically bruise adjacent brain areas, with different parts of the skull picking up different harmonic frequencies, causing bruising in different places, and yielding different neurologic effects. This should fall under the heading of traumatic brain injury (TBI), and, because it must be repetitive, coming with every wave of sound pressure, the subcategory of chronic TBI (cTBI). American football players, in huge, loud arenas, are subject to crowd noise at such decibels. Donated brains from some who were expected to be control subjects (i.e., no history of concussion) are being found, on autopsy, to have signs of cTBI.
I'd like to suggest another correction: Tinnitus is pronouned TIN-it-us. The mispronunciation of tin-I-tis would end in "-itis", which translate to "inflammation of", and that buzzing in the ears is not "inflammation of the tin", though it is a very common mispronunciation.
P.S. Quick example of bone conduction of sound: Count to three. Now, plug your ears with your fingers, and count to three. The latter is louder, because of bone conduction. The distraction of air conduction is removed, and the finger pressure on the thinner, flimsier bones connected to where the fingers are holding firm leave the freer ends of those bone parts to vibrate more. After all, that energy has to go somewhere.
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If a tree falls and no one is around to hear it does it actually make a “sound” ??
Or is sound only meant to be interpreted?
For example, space...
Perhaps Scishow should do a video about how some Harvard researchers are challenging the idea these hair cells cannot be regrown.
My grandfather lost 80% of his hearing from serving in the navy. He has always reminded me to protect my hearing and I have taken his warnings to heart. I keep earplugs with me and use them whenever needed. Having Sensory Processing Disorder also means I am extra sensitive to sounds anyways so earplugs are a godsend.
I bet nearly every one that served in WWII had damaged his ears. One of my grandparents was too close to a bomb and was thrown down by the blast and was hit by multiple shrapnel. One of them was even lodged in his brain! He lost his sense of smell and was severely hearing impaired. If it also changed his personality I cannot say for sure.
@@edi9892 -I know a lot of guys who served even later ( Viet Nam, Gulf War ) that lost some hearing, from shooting rifles, even just on the practice range.
@@christelheadington1136 I think it's still a problem today: you want to be able to hear your enemy, but war is too damn loud once enemy contact occurs...
I'm on the autism spectrum and have a very similar problem. I'm hyper-sensitive with all my senses, but my worst is a sensitivity to sound, and the more sounds that happen at once, the more stressed I get until I just...well, snap, and have to go into a quiet room for an hour or more just to calm down. This problem is because people with autistic brains don't process things individually; we process everything. At once.
People keep telling me it's cool to have super-senses, like I'm a real life superhero, but I keep telling them "No! It sucks!" It's why when going to movies I have to wear sound attenuation ear plugs that are usually supposed to be used at concerts.
@@WildFyreful I know how that feels. I´m not autistic, but I did suffer from burn out and depression and I got at times quite sensitive to sounds and smells. I must add that I seem to have hyperosmia. This means that rotten food can even on a good day make me puke just from getting a single breath of the stench. During my PhD, which was the cause of my stress, I had a female colleague that had a strong smell on good days and irritated my nose during her period to the point that I sneezed whenever she got too close!
When I got agitated, this could get so bad that I could actually track her like a dog, as one minute after she walked by, I could still smell her trail! Her sitting on a textile clad chair meant that I could smell it even hours later.
This was both super weird, gross and awkward. Since I didn´t dare to talk to her about her lack of hygiene directly (she was very easy to offend even when no-one tried to and she was quite possibly autistic on top, which made communicating with her quite hard) I made it a habit of greeting her by name before she came into view in the hope that she´d figure out on her own that I do recognise her by her smell...
It didn´t have the desired effect, but creeped her out...
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Drummer here: I always wear earplugs while playing. Even musician's earplugs (which attenuate 15-20dB) are enough to save your ears. I find it actually gives me a better sense of what the drums will sound like to the audience.
putting those earplugs into your ears can create so much noise it harms your hearing. no kidding. even whisper can be louder than rocket plane, if it is so close to ear.
@@marian20012 it's not a sound amplifier
@@cai6972 also your finger in your ear is not sound amplifier. but it creates sounds you can hear and that sound can hurt your hearing if you messing with your finger too much. putting ear plug into your ear generates sounds. this sound can be so loud it can hurt your hearing. so what is your point?
@@marian20012 Putting ear plugs into your ears is NOT comparable to hours of concert music, dude.
@@marian20012 - Yes, inserting earplugs does make noise, but if it sounds like a rocket plane, you're either putting them in wrong, or you need to invest in different earplugs.
And that is why I’m moving to the middle of nowhere.
The irony of this video. Ive found that scishow is noticeably louder than most other videos I watch
Try the volume control.
@@stevepowsinger733 SciShow is also guilty of the, let's call it "THX Effect". I.e. the intro blasting your eardrums, only to be followed by a quieter video.
Nor are their videos equal to each other. Turn up to hear one. The next one is so loud it hurts.😥 I keep telling them, but no one at scishow cares.
Especially the intro's... T__T *RIP eardrums*
Don't agree
"take a moment and listen to all the noises around you"
Me: *hears ringing in my ear* tinnitus you mean?
@Deborah Meltrozo th-cam.com/video/Bmc9NFfhx74/w-d-xo.html
I feel with ya. With roughly 35 decibels of background noise currently my own tinnitus is still maybe 30% of what I hear.
Mine is louder than Hank in the video playing.
Mine causes physical pain in my ears. Thank you, Uncle Sam, lol.
Yeah, all those clubbing for definitely more than 15 minutes and playing UT and CS with headphones definitely did a number on my ears. I was young and no one warned me so now I have to live with this constant ringing in my ears.
As a human biologist, I think that research on hearing is truly fascinating! Current studies aim to restore hearing loss in deaf patients through a new field of molecular biology, called optogenetics. Optogenetics is a scientific discipline in which we manipulate the activity of neurons in the ear by introducing certain genes into them. We can then stimulate these neurons by light, meaning that the neurons become activated. In this manner, we might be able to build complex hearing aids consisting of tiny LEDs which are so precise that patients might become able to hear much better than normal people (I actually made a video about this a while ago)! Although a lot of research has still do be conducted until this works, I think that's it's a truly revolutionary approach.
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Woah, so you could *see* sound directly in your brain? 🤯
That's really fascinating! I hope some headway is made regarding tinnitus as well.
How would this help (would it?) someone like me who not only is deaf but has APD (audio processing disorder). What little I can hear is commonly distorted, which is incredibly frustrating for all involved. Would this help at all?
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Not quite. The same way that all sensory input is turned into electrical signals for your brain, they "manipulate the activity of neurons in the ear" to allow light signals digitally created and sent to LED's to initiate electrical signals into the brain. Because it's the hearing neurons they are doing this to, your brain will interpret it as sound.
Between trains, planes, sirens, gas powered landscaping equipment, and barking dogs, I have moments where I feel like I'm about to go insane. I've taken to wearing my noise cancelling headphones during the day without input just to block out some of the noise annoyance that constantly surrounds me. I'd give anything to live in a nice quiet and remote mountain area.
I find it funny how people get annoyed at background noise like that because SILENCE drives me batty. Like a library? Nononono, I need at least some kind of noise. I like random sounds outside the window and such. Then again I grew up 30ft from a train track and it went by a few times every day, shook stuff in the house. I completely stopped noticing it after a while.
But ughh no silence. D:
Whoopsy Daisy - I live in a loud city too, and cannot live without a white noise machine at night. Having lived in a small city, and a rural area, I can tell you the rural area was very noisy and it took a whole month before I could sleep, though I like nature sounds a lot better than deliberately inconsiderate human a**holes. The quietest by far was the small city of 32,000. It was dead quiet at night, so if that is what you desire, you might not need to go off the grid to get it. :-)
@@trainjackson63 how can a library be completely silent? Pages rustling, people moving. But again, I'm really sensitive to sounds and my hearing is good (I care a lot about my ears, and I hear rather quiet sounds pretty well). After all, I've never experienced complete silence, but I've experienced the kind where I got scared about everything being so quiet, so I do understand how silence can be scary. But that's only possible at night if you live alone, other quiet places are definitely not so quiet...
@@atriyakoller136 I can hear all those tiny sounds too, sure. But I suppose I mean I'd rather study/read at a rock concert than a library.
I can relate
reminds me of a noise-lowering study done in a NICU where I used to work, because all the premature babies needed better sleep for growth...we appreciated the lower noise levels too =D
Re: noise at night, I failed college because the person living below me in my dorm building had delusions of becoming a rapper and thought he needed to stay up till 2am "recording" every night. I had to be awake at 5am for class. Yeah. I went to everyone to try to get it stopped but no one really cared.
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Sometimes when you go to "everyone" and you don't get the desired result, it may pay to go to a local gangster, mafia wannabe, biker gang, local ruffians, etc. Explaining the problem, showing a photo, flashing a wad of cash ( half up front ), and letting the ex-con or whoever solve the problem. They have fun while earning some spending money. Win-win ...
Frank Baker you’re watching too many movies 😂
As a person that suffers from severe tinnitus, I implore those reading this: protect your hearing when at all possible, don't be an idiot like me and think your young and invincible, or 'meh it's no big deal'. Tinnitus is relentless and maddening. When I first got it I thought I was going to lose my sanity, literally. Now I'm partially, sometimes accustomed to it, but it's still highly irritating. Imagine standing next to a bell a few seconds after it has been rung...that is your life FOREVER if you damage your hearing.
While I agree, some of us just end up with tinnitus anyway. Never liked headphones and went to maybe 7 concerts in my whole life. And I'm a decade deep in chronic tinnitus.
My only saving grace has been "meditating" using Wim Hoff breathing which for some reason resets my anxiety/panic response to my tinnitus, as far as I can tell anyway.
@@izzikat9252 ~ Yes, Wim Hof's techniques are amazing, been on his program for a couple years now. It definitely helps to take the edge off the ringing, or at least allows me to ignore it more readily.
@@izzikat9252 I have ADHD so I was BORN WITH TINNITUS WOOOOOOO
I got really sick about 8 yrs ago. It left my drum scared permanently.. it got so hard to hear that I started wearing headphones with my phone so I can hear it ring while out /work so family/ my doctors can get in contact.. my tinnitus drives me nuts I cant hear my coworkers when its happening.. and have to focus when it's not.our Restaurant can be louder then 85 decibels on a normal day.. and naive people/coworkers see me in public with my bluetooth and assume my "music" caused my impairment.. one even started yelling at me about it. The next day asks me to answer the phone at work.. lol even thou I cant hear the customer on the other end.. some people just need to learn so decency. Respect your fellows!
"All this noise is killing me"
Me, a sound engineer: "Feels"
Me, a former raver: my sympathies mate!!!
Becoming a hermit is my goal. Either that or finding an EMP gun for all the boom-cars that want to "share".
I feel eggs work almost as well.
@@matthewharris-levesque5809 Eggs is amateur, to really give an impact keep a warm can of coca cola in your car and a cup. When ready whip the coke on to their car.
I can tolerate a car with a subwoofer, but noisy exhaust pipes are the worst, especially when they’ve deliberately made them that way. We get it! You’re genitals are small, and you’re marking your territory with noise.
@@setcheck67 Hmm... my suggestion was influenced by the fact that it's below freezing here at the moment. Frozen egg is amazingly hard to remove from a windshield. The coke might ruin the paint a bit, but the egg all over the viewport makes the car illegal to drive.
@@evilsharkey8954 😂😂😂 Totally agree. Same goes for those truck nuts and truck antlers.
Speaking of which, *the bigger the truck...* 😁
Hank: “One risky behavior many of us do every day is listening to music through our headphones.”
Me, watching this video with my headphones in: *chuckles* I’m in danger
Me, wearing headphones almost constantly throughout the day: *Uh oh*
I keep around 20-30%
On TH-cam with headphones you kinda are. Moving from a really soft audio video where you need to turn up the volume, to a video with too loud audio suddenly blasting your poor ear holes.
Me, watching it relatively silently on the noise-cancelling headset: Good investment!
In using earbuds so it’s a okay!
As someone with hyperacusis and tinnitus, thank you so much for talking about this! Noise pollution is a pretty painful part of life, especially living in the city with no ability to leave 😭 I hope more people will begin to take noise levels and their impact on people much more seriously!
Yeah ive got menieres i feel ya pain
I can empathize, I’ve got tinnitus and hyperacusis as well.
Try noise cancelling headphones. Many of them let you turn on ANC without having to have sound, like music, coming in to them to work. They'll just help block it all out.
I doubt people will change their habits. They’ll probably react the way they normally do when they find out something they like harms others, with anger, defensiveness, and righteous indignation. How dare you ask me not to bathe in body spray because of your asthma and allergies! How dare you tell me my preferred retailer is horrible to their workers, local community, and environment! How dare you not eat my delicious peanut butter bars because of your so called allergy!
People suck!
Getting sound isolating ear buds is one of the best investments I've made. When we're listening to music and things get loud around our reaction is usually to raise the volume so we can easily hear the music over the noise. This obviously just makes for more sound and doesn't actually remove any outside noise, so listening to 70% for 8h will only be safe in quieter environments and will still be straining. I used to work in a factory, a loud environment, and with sound proofed ear buds (or sound proofed over-ear head phones, if you don't mind the size) I don't ever have to go over 40% volume. And it saves so much strain for me, because noise over time is very tiring, and it protects the limited resource that our hearing is.
What's the difference between sound isolating and sound cancelling?
Sound isolating means the headphone physically blocks sounds from outside, so you can hear what’s coming through the headphones better. Sound cancelling electronically adds sound to cancel out certain sounds from your surroundings. I find that sound cancelling is excellent for blocking things like airplane noise, the a/c, and the like. They’re not great for blocking other people talking. Then again, that may be a good thing in some circumstances. :)
Fire fighters have one of the highest occupational heart attack rates. This is believed to be because they are regularly awoken by loud firehouse sirens. Long haul truck drivers can suffer deafness due to the often constant, high dB rate in their cabins.
In the UK, clubs are supposed to give free earplugs at the bar. Saved me so many times! Much more enjoyable, less tinnitus, Bass is still in your face :'D
I have a problem with earplugs at concerts. All I've tried so far let too much bass through. That drives ears into distortion, and makes the sound very unpleasant and unrecognizable. I am yet to find a solution. I had Nokia headphones I got with my Lumia that worked brilliantly for the purpose, but I lost them unfortunately =(
This explains so much. I'm noise-sensitive so i bought earplugs that only blocked about 10 dB of volume. I worried that it would not be enough but it changed everything! This video has really helped me understand why the 'small' difference of 10 dB allows me to comfortably endure a scooter shooting by!
I wear noise-cancelling headphones when I can to help reduce noice in the city I live in. Outside, I have to keep the cancelling low enough to maintain situational awareness, but inside I crank it up to 10 whenever I can. As a result, I can turn down audio anywhere from 20-70% lower than if I were using AirPods or something. Honestly, these headphones were some of the best money I ever spent; they legitimately changed my relationship with sound. Watching movies on a plane no longer harms my ears! Woohoo!
Man, this episode brings back bad memories from school.
I have hypersensitivity, and in some kind of sick joke, I also ended up in the noisiest class at the whole school. Seriously, even now it boggles my mind with just how loud it was. It was actually so bad I had to cut class frequently to not go insane from the it whenever we had lessons with the full class. Not only that, but there are frequent occasions were teachers left the class with ringing in their ears, and other where teachers from other classes came over and tried to inform us that the class was too loud, from two classrooms away.
Is it any wonder that my grades tanked.
My school is always so loud with announcements and assemblies. It hurts so much and I end up crying a lot. I always complain about it but they don't do anything.
I'd always skipped days with such assemblies or "get lost" on the way. F*ck anyone that says I don't have the right to avoid intense pain.
Oh my god yes. Ours used to be so much worse. They've gotten better but they're still not good. And I'm sure just hallway noise is also bad.
use earplugs?
@@insioni I do. And headphones meant for hunting. I'm also sensitive to getting ear infections, which is fun. Wearing both of them at once makes the hallway + bells almost inaudible but spirit week type assemblies are still too loud.
This makes me even more grateful we live in a forest! The loudest sounds we hear are owls and coyotes...well, the coyotes can be pretty loud, but it’s not constant and not daily.
sandy roberts-anderson, some nature sounds are godawful! Opossums fighting over mates, young raccoons having arguments that sound like they’re being tortured to death, you know what I’m talking about!
Evil Sharkey Indeed!
“You wanna keep the slider around 70% or less”
Do people actually put it that loud? I typically have mine around 30% and at most go to 50% for a quiet video...
Mine's at 10% right now. I like quiet.
Literally 50 or higher at all times.
Oh, I thought I was the only one. Nice to know I'm not.
People set it lower than maxed out?
I guess most of the music I listen to is recorded pretty quietly, because 70% makes the volume somewhere around pianissimo on my piano. I need to put it to max to be able to hear it properly. In contrast, I put most videos down to like 40%.
I have to visit almost all the hospitals in my city. I think the biggest factor to how loud some hospitals are compared to others is mostly architectural. Thicker walls and thicker doors block a lot. Carpeting can do a surprising amount. Hallways that curve to block sound makes a bid difference. Nurses stations that are tucked away rather than in the middle of an open floor plan. Everything else is so hard to control
I've had a constant ringing in my ears for as long as I can remember (even as a small kid). It's not super bad, but if it's quiet it can get kind of annoying (to the point where I have to have the fan on to drown it out), or if I pay attention to it it overwhelms everything else (kind of like when you breathe manually and then panic that you'll never be able to go on "autopilot" again). Pair that with OCD and you've got a recipe for disaster. I had always thought *some* ringing in the ear was perfectly normal and that everyone had some and heard it if it was quiet enough.
You're telling me that people exist who don't have a constant 6000hz sine-wave in the background of every waking moment of their lives? What a life. Color me green, because I'm jelly.
I also go through the same thing as you. I have great hearing but ill always have that ring in my ear no matter what.
I have a lot of anxiety triggers and I'm working on managing them and reducing their impact. But the sound related ones are the hardest to break, especially low frequency noises. It's good to know there's an actual neuroscience reason for that.
Oh, and I absolutely love foam earplugs. I carry some in my purse all the time and they make life so much better. I find I usually like things a bit quieter than other people, so having a convenient volume adapter is great. I've introduced my roommate to them and now she can't sleep without them. I've found I can hear other people talk about as well as without earplugs. After all, they're going to be talking louder in a noisy environment. The main issue is that I tend to speak more quietly with earplugs in. It takes a bit of practice, but if you have friends to give feedback, you can adjust your speaking volume pretty quickly.
yup, damaged mine many years ago DJing and playing loud music. tinnitus for the rest of my life with multiple tones and *loud*
What an important episode that I needed when I was a teen. My hearing is all kinds of messed up now.
YOU MEAN MY TINNITUS?!
WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER MY TINNITUS.
SPEAK LOUDER!!
@@Agaettis WHAAAT?!
@@Guru_1092 mop
EEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Very interesting episode. Amazing how much the "normal" aspects of life can effect and influence us.
Just FYI - "noise-canceling" headphones do not reduce the volume of sound to your ears and in fact work by producing 'extra' sound that tricks your brain into thinking you're not hearing things. Your ears are still getting a lot of sound pressure in this case.
What you want is "noise-reducing" or "isolating" headphones that physically block sound from entering the ear.
Really amazing video, BTW... Definitely sheds some light on my own life in a noisy area. Without realizing it, I've started wearing my IEMs with noise isolating tips all day while at work downtown. I mostly don't have anything playing and can still talk with people, everything is just turned down by maybe 10 dBa. It definitely helps me to feel less pressured.
Audiology graduate student here. Please make sure you are putting in your earplugs correctly! If the earplugs are sticking several cm out of your ears (like in the picture) they aren't going to be nearly as effective. Best way to insert is to roll the foam so it is very small, pull back and up on the outer ear (called the pinna) and hold while gently pushing the foam deep into the canal. Let go of the pinna, but then WAIT to let the foam expand and fill your ear before exposing yourself to loud sounds. Happy, safe listening everyone!
That's how my dad showed me to do it (not sure how he knew, but he's been in construction and healthcare) Disturbed him to no end when I'd only do it to my hearing ear. Not sure why, though it may've been just an over-abundance of caution.
In highschool i am odd for listening to music not on 100% but this is more proof why its better. Thank you Hank! More fuel for me to turn the volume down, i wish others could see this video. 11th Like and 74 views!
Those looking for Hanks music:
(Hank Green albums)
So Jokes (2008)
I'm So Bad at This: Live! (2009)
This Machine Pwns n00bs (2009)
Ellen Hardcastle (2011)
(Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers album)
Incongruent (2014)
More info can be found on his Wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Green
When you leave the pub in a group and continue your conversations on the way by stopping below other people's flats ( yes, that’s what all those those windows are) please remember that you are shouting at the top of your lungs and waking everyone one in all of the surrounding buildings up. You don’t think you are, but you are. Looking at you, Scotland!
watching this in a restaurant where the live music is so loud it's shaking the whole place
I am a hermit because I can't tolerate the noise made by humans.
finally, someone understands
Take care of your ears.
I'm a former professional musician, and was reckless.
Today I live with massive chronic pain, tinnitus and hyperacusis. Trust me. You don't want to be where I am.
I was offered a job to help stop noise pollution but I had to turn it down.
You had to go there? 😉
For what?
Big brain joke
*snickers in hershey*
No!! You’re punished get in the corner!!
I worked in an office where they decided to put in a stairwell to the floor below. Which mean cutting a hole. Through foot-thick concrete full of steel rebar. Gotta love old mill buildings.
They worked at night and on weekends. I was scheduled nights and weekends. Tons of fun trying to have a conversation on the phone next to what amounted to mining equipment in full swing.
Does anyone just lay in a bed calmly, in almost perfect silence and one of your ears suddenly goes
*RrrREeEeeEeEeee*
Its like when you turn on an old tube TV
A subject near and dear to the hearts of many musicians. Definitely a source of frustration when an audience member oblivious to their own hearing health and those around them cries "turn up the bass!"
Wall drilling in a flat should be a criminal offence with a mandatory minimum sentence, no joke.
So should be wind turbines. People that I know living close to them experience some messed up effects.
Jabberwocky or a more realistic solution - They could warn their neighbours before hand.
Just wait until you get someone with a Sub-Woofer and an addiction to the Jurassic Park (or Lincoln Park) franchise(s). That's when it becomes an invitation to engage in criminal offenses.... especially when they feel they have the right and the muscle to "live the way they want to live"...
put outdoor extremely loud music concert in that category as well, in reality they can bang each of their head in home to a wall to satisfy their ear drum crushing fetish
Why? People shouldn't be allowed to modify their flat?
Apartment living is one of those annoyingly louder than you expected experiences! Those effects are real!! Drove me crazy in my last apartment! When I could hear the noise through my walls over music or audio from videos on my headphones...
All this talk about noise really makes me hear my tinnitus.
Fml...Now I will need to wait another week for it to calm down
Same!
It's fascinating that you can kind of forget about the tinnitus until you're reminded.
I I wonder if I might hear tinnitus only in verbal placebo
In my case i only hear it sometimes when it's very quiet around me
One cause of tinnitus, for me at least, is too much salt. Mebbe you all should try cutting down a little.
omg i lived in a cove on my island, and one summer there was a guy who rented next door for a month and he always had talk radio on and i felt like it echoed in the entire cove. i couldn't think. it wasnt like when someone played something inside their home. he was outside and his noise echoed everywhere. it made me angry. i used to play my music loudly when i walked home, because i didnt want humans to bother me. now i realize i bothered earth's life affirming heartbeat. my cove is usually free flowing, but in that moment it felt like stagnation. there is no "silence". in vacuum space, maybe. but the "silence" you hear is earth's natural heartbeat.
I would love to see something about sudden hear loss. That's what happened to me a couple years ago. The scary part is that I have to live without a definitive diagnostic other than "this happens, and we don't know why". And I'm lucky, considering I only lost the left side.
Thank you guys so much for this incredible content.
When you say "sudden", do you mean like "blah blah blah bl- *silence*", or over the course of a day/week the hearing goes to poop?
@@mantha6912 It happened instantly. I got violently dizzy and disoriented. When someone offered to help me I noticed there was something wrong. I had my eyes closed because I was very sick. The voice came from my right, but when I opened my eyes, I had to look to the other side. That was terrifying.
@@giuniral Geez. I hope you never experience that again :(
Thank you so much for bringing light to this!
"Do brain stuff good"
NOW you're speaking my language!
I used to live in Munich right by the airport. The planes took off right over our apartment buildings I was in the Army stationed at MacGraw kaserne. And it was very loud and very annoying. Now I live in a town where a train goes through the town but it's actually enjoyable to hear.
I live less than a mile from an airport, more than 20 years, you DON'T get used to it.
That really sucks, is it practical for you to consider moving?
@@yearginclarke .No, I'm here because it's cheaper.
@@christelheadington1136 Ok, I get ya
where i live, no one cares about hearing health, the more noise a store makes better for them it seems, sometimes is hard to find a quiet place
Nobody:
Noise: *Noise noises*
Having lived a huge part of my life in downtown of very busy cities, I've basically had mild Tinnitus all my life. In fact. I remember, as a child, asking someone what that noise was i heard when all other external noises were stopped (or I plugged my ears) and was offered the answer that it was normal and just the sound of blood rushing through my veins. It wasn't until almost 30 years later that i realized it was tinnitus.
So... I'm actually hard of HAIRing?
BOO
Ok, baldy...
@@threeMetreJim Hair today. gone tomorrow...
@@timsullivan4566
ROFL! 🤣 😂 😅
i've had tinnitus as long as i could remember. my dad has it too, but to my knowledge only got it after serving in the army. my grandpa has it too, but to my knowledge only after doing metalwork for a while
When I watched Beowulf I was rooting for Grendal.... When I hear loud noises from outside my home, inside my home, it can trigger a fight or flight response in me that makes me feel like I'm under attack. It's hard to describe but a loud car stereo, constant barking from a neighbors dog can raise my stress levels to the point that I can't concentrate and I honestly feel like I'm being attacked with sound. It's mostly to do with the noise being somewhere I require quiet, like my bedroom, being unable to block the sound (you can hear it even over the radio or with headphones on), and the sound occurring daily for long periods. Basically the louder it is, the more it happens, the worse it feels. Eventually if it doesn't stop, you actually become more sensitive to the sound over time rather than getting used to it. I've never wanted to live far away from other people so badly as I have since a barking dog neighbor from hell, and loud car stereos invaded my home.
I honestly believe people should have to get licenses to have dogs. The majority of people I've lived around do not properly care for and provide exercise for their dogs, nor do they train and socialize them. It makes them an absolute menace and it's psychological torture to live around.
I believe that condition is called misophonia, my dude. Invest in some quality ear plugs, I guess.
Lloyd2112DT, misophonia is a negative response to specific trigger sounds like chewing, pen clicking, or other repetitive sounds, regardless of volume. If my ears detect the squish of someone chewing gum, I get incredibly annoyed, like to the point I’m surprised misophonia hasn’t caused more homicides. It’s not an exaggerated fight or flight response, just a visceral hatred of certain sounds.
@@evilsharkey8954 It's not the sounds themselves, it's the fact they are undesired and unable to be ignored. It feels like an attack or intrusion. When you're in your bedroom with earplugs in and you still hear it, you've retreated as far as you can and if the sound doesn't stop it's like torture. You know it's bad when you wish you were deaf so you could get some peace, and yet you're a music lover.
The video makes mention of our ears being evolved to be a first warning system, and that's what it feels like. A barking dog is a warning, but when the dog barks constantly day after day, year after year, it really wears you out from the constant 'somethings wrong' feeling. My mind latches onto any sound and tries to analyze it, what am I hearing, where is it coming from, and I am unable to shut that part of my mind off without drowning it in other sound like a loud fan, or ironically really loud music on headphones, both of which are not good for your hearing long term. Car stereos are the worst though because no earplug or noise cancelling headphone in the world can block the low frequencies of bass.
My grandfather was in denial about his hearing loss for years and now that he has hearing aids he’s continuing to isolate himself by turning them off mid conversation. It’s sad what avoiding getting help can do to a person.
Am I missing something or is the line "Cortisol, Adrenalin and Epinephrin" at 9:40 somewhat stange, as Adrenalin and Epinephrin are two names for the same hormone. That's like saying "Sand, Water and H2O" for describing a beach. Don't want to be the "ummm, actually" type, please correct me if there is a tangible difference between Epi and Adrenalin.
No you're right. They should have have put noradrenalin and adrenalin if they want different compounds.
Nice spot; you're observant, correct, and right
Skylark Murphy lol
Cynic667 Umm achtually its spelled ahctually
water is not only H20, it is distilled water with 100% purity
Thank you very much for this episode and raising the awareness for the importance of protecting our hearing. I‘ve „caught“ a tinnitus in early july and it‘s been hard to deal with, especially in the beginning. Do take care of your ears, maybe turn the music down a little. Again, thank you very much.
I'm 19 and have had tinnitus for Years, as long as I can remember. I just don't know why I have it, I do everything I can to protect my ears. I've got to the point now where I know there is no hope of it going away
@@willstokes7266 It came out of nowhere for me, too. I guess I was quite annoyed at some friends the day it appeared, but other than that? I only hear music very quietly because I've been afraid of tinnitus since 7th grade music class. Thankfully I've gotten better at dealing with it. Best of wishes to you, even if you say you've given up, I hope it gets better.
@@azralan618 I've looked for treatments and all of that, but there isn't anything "proper" just therapy sort of treatments. We will have to wait and see what the wonders of modern medicine can do. I had it for years not knowing what it was and just accepted it and got on with life. Thank you, you too
I feel your pain, i first got it in my junior year of college and it was distressing. It got worse for a few year until it finally evened out. I frankly ignored it, but a recent unprovoked panic attack over it brought me back to square one and it was all I can think about!
It has gotten better and continues to. If its distressing you a lot, go to a doctor and they will send you to a hearing specialist. If nothing comes up, try masking it with white noise or nature sounds and CBT therapy help with the anxiety. Yoi are not alone, and it does get better. Best of luck to you.
My time to shine!
I worked as a tech in an audiology clinic in the Navy during my time as a corpsman, and it's always great to see hearing conservation because not enough people are educated on how common the dangers are or that hearing loss is permanent.
I dunno if anyone is curious about hearing conservation, but ask away, I guess.
By the way, my audiologist taught me that tinnitus is pronounced "TIN-ih-tuhs," instead of "tin-EYE-təs," which is how I'd always said it. "-itis" implies inflammation.
Any trick to reduce tinnitus that you guys use?
Do you think that people with tinnitus are more prone to stress related issues than those without tinnitus that experience low level noise like distant traffic etc?
I experience tinnitus myself and I feel I deal with it quite well most of the time, but I sometimes have moments when it really hits me that I'm going to hear this noise in my head for the rest of my life. I will never again experience silence or have a truly quiet moment. I get a bit existential about it sometimes 😬
@@vrilginitymaxxer There are a couple I can recommend. The best, unfortunately, is prevention.
I use a white noise generator when I sleep to help cover up the ringing. There are special machines for this (talk to your doctor or ask for a referral to an audiologist if you have insurance), but there are plenty of good websites and apps that will do exactly the same job for free.
I highly recommend SimplyNoise and RainyMood. I use both and they are excellent. Just make sure screen light won't interfere with your sleep!
I know that some people use television as background noise when they sleep, but I *strongly* urge against this for several reasons. I can explain those if you like.
I also recommend buying some soft foam or silicone earplugs (Quattros get my rrcommendation for a mix of low price, comfort, and near impossibility to put in wrong). Put these in for the last couple hours *before* bed to give your ears the equivalent of a power nap. This helps reduce what you'll hear during bedtime.
Lastly, remember that just because you're getting rest all night does not mean your ears are.
For a little over a year while I was overseas, the head of my bed was right next to a fan unit, so I slept with ear plugs and used a vibrating alarm to wake up (and asked my neighbor to punch me if it woke him up).
Always be aware of the things around you that can put stress on your hearing apparatus, and try to reduce volume, reduce time of exposure, and increase distance whenever possible.
Let me know if this helps!
@@jennivamp5 That's an excellent question, and I would say it depends, but in my professional opinion, generally yes.
It's easier for me to help resolve low-level long-exposure noise complaints - which are also dangerous, by the way: think of it as just walking instead of running, but if you're walking for 12 hours a day, your feet would hurt, wouldn't they?
Stress and tinnitus go hand in hand, and since all tinnitus is sensorineural in origin, stress can make tinnitus worse, which worsens stress, in a vicious feedback loop.
I would say don't give up hope. I have pretty significant tinnitus from a few incidents where I was unable to prepare and protect my ears because of my line of work, but there are ways. If you read my above comment, I have some tips. As someone who also loves a silent moment, I can tell you that with a bit of meditation, a good, quiet room, and a little static or rain sounds (plus some practice), you might be surprised with the peace and quiet you can achieve.
@@vrilginitymaxxer Oh! I completely left out the second half.
Do you smoke? Smoking significantly worsens tinnitus among its other deleterious health effects, so I'd look into a tobacco cessation program if you do.
A number of medications are ototoxic, meaning they affect your ears in a variety of subtle but unpleasant ways. Talk to your doctor (or let me know if you want some more discreet advice) about what medications you may be taking and whether they might be causing some of that tinnitus.
Alcohol has two effects on hearing: a very significant temporary increase while you are intoxicated, sometimes incredibly loud (one of several reasons I don't really drink anymore), and then a longer-lasting, quiet ringing that may persist for several days.
Lastly, if the ringing is lopsided, or only in one ear, and happens simultaneously with tingling and numbness, see a doctor as soon as you are able.
Note: having a brief, sudden, quiet ring in one ear is very normal. I get them, too. If it is very loud, or persists for several hours on one side, mention it to your doctor or audiologist. They can take a closer look and run some tests.
Movie theaters (at least in the US) have also decided in the last couple decades that louder is better, so bring earplugs there, too. They also help block the sounds of chewing popcorn and jerks talking.
Sending this to my atrocious neighbors
I'm autistic and noise annoyances cause severe sensory issues. Can't focus, get super angry, and it doesn't stop until I'm free of the cause. It's caused problems in relationships. It's no joke.
Elliott Lars Olsen, any noises or just certain sounds, like chewing or pen clicking? You might have misophonia, too, a strong negative reaction to certain repetitive noises like chewing, tapping, etc.
So I'm justified in hating my loud neighbor's bass? Knew it.
Hearing loss runs in my dad’s family. We start being unable to understand conversation if there is background noise in our 30s and deaf to much more by our 60s. Consequently, I’ve always used ear protection at church and concerts and when using power equipment. My hearing (I’m 60) is now noticeably better than my siblings, but still worse than the general population.
If sound affects neurotypical people's psychological health, imagine how it is for autistics like me 😓
@introvert I think it's pain, not fear.
*cries in sound sound sensitivity & tinnitus
Right there with you, fellow-sufferer of the neurotypical world we live in being constantly *TURNED UP TO VOLUME 110%* aaaurghuah! T.T
Why I carry earplugs with me everywhere... I can't sleep with them in though and I have multiple computers right below my room 😓
@introvert yeah it's not fear, it's the same "annoyance" stress response as other people and/or pain, just with way lower thresholds. White noise machines are nightmares.
I live on a main road with heavy lorries, delivery / harley davidson bikes, public transportation ... all with just single glazed windows. I can hear and feel the noise from the outside. It's honestly horrible! I have tried explaining this to my agency and they are resistant on doing anything about it. Can't wait to move out! Glad to have watched this as I knew something wasn't right. I hate being so stressed when I'm home trying to relax 😫🥺guess I'm going to buy loads of earplugs lol
video title: all this noise is KILLING me!
my laptop: KILLS me due to being at full volume when I click on the video
I'd love to see a future video about the organ of Corti and the outer hair cells because I only recently learned about how they mechanically amplify sounds and it is amazing.
I have tinnitus, I can hear ringing constantly. I also have hyperacusis. It’s the worst thing to be stuck with.
And hyperacusis?? I had both last summer, H went away, but T obviously remains at a blistering level. Good luck with your H!
Same.
* Cosmoverse *, I have ringing in my ears quite frequently and I’m not sure if it’s temporary or permanent...👀
5:15 I would revise that quote as the volume a device outputs is based on the headphones used with the device as headphones or speakers can be more or less efficient taking more or less power. I am assuming this is with the stock ear buds that come with the phone. Over ear headphones are far less efficient than ear buds and depending on the technology, the size of the driver, the material of the driver, and how the headphones deal with sealing if they are closed back also effects the efficiency. Planar magnetic headphones are well known for being so inefficient most phones are barely usable with them. For my phone I needed to turn the entire equilizer all the way up, turn on a 30 voltage overclock and only then is it loud enough to use. Though in the car certain songs are still a bit quite even at 100%.
Luckily I never raise my brightness or volume above half-way on account of crap battery life!
I recently moved due to noise disturbances in my area, partially caused by other residents (management told me that "their hands are tied" with regards to doing anything about it). The new place is much much better, though I still need drugs to actually make it all the way through the night.
"WHAT?"
I CAN'T HEAR YOU! LETS TALK IN MY ORIFICE!
THEY'RE SELLING CHOCOLATE
I saw the Rock Group "KISS" at an indoor arena during their world tour in 1975. My ears are still ringing from that concert. Seriously my ears did ring and/or buzz for 3 days afterwards. I believe the next year the federal government put limits upon indoor concert decibel levels...
I'm guessing it's only for indoor concerts since in 2009 KISS played loud enough that listening to them for even a second resulted in hearing damage. Even the highest rated earplugs only made it safe to listen to them for 15 minutes.
ASMR is so soothing, however I have ear damage from the ads that pop up at the end of the videos!
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FAN-BLOODY-TASTIC. I love your channel. 🇬🇧. X.
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I just realized that I've heard the Brilliant advertisement at the beginning of the videos so much now, that the part of my brain that ignores distractions has been completely tuning it out!
Only came to realize it was actually still there after scrolling down here, reading this, and restarting the video at 0 seconds!
You should also mention people who live in an apartments with thin walls. I have lived in 3 different apartments, and every single place has had PAPER THIN walls and I have mostly had neighbors who don't care about trying to be reasonable about noise. I am not aware of any apartments in my area that are any better.
I'd love to have a house without shared walls, but it's extremely hard to find houses for rent in my small town, and on top of that, I'm single and the added expense of renting a house is impractical for just one person. And I am fully aware that you can still hear noises in a house, but at least it's not so up close and personal like apartment living.
So what happens to the people that go to nightclubs every night for like 5 hours :D If only 15 m can have effect on you.. hmmm ;P
Makes you wonder
So, I remember a while back when someone debunked the idea of sitting too close to the TV affecting your eyesight negatively, pointing out that it was far more likely that sitting too close to the TV was actually an indicator of poor eyesight itself, not a cause. I wonder if there's a possibility that such an inverse correlation exists with loud music on headphones as well?
That's why I prefer headphones over earphones because as I know the latter is worse for you. Really interesting video. My second video is out and I hope you will like it 😊.
Same here as a PS4 video gamer
Will be going in to hospital next week for a major operation, & I'll be taking ear-plugs like I did for an op 11yrs ago, but usually having things in my ears I find it really irritating!
Yet another piece of evidence that humans were never meant to live in big cities.
Lost most of my hearing temporarily last summer due to a bad cold (that's what colds can do to you when you're 60). After getting over the initial anxiety and disorientation, I actually found the hearing loss oddly calming. It also made me realize how noisy the modern world is. Fortunately after a few months almost all of my hearing returned (all in one ear and most in the other). However while I've long worn earplugs to sleep, I'm now considering wearing them when awake, at least in some situations. Wouldn't it be great if our ears came with a volume control.
I’m way to late to this cause my hearing is horrible
What did you say?
@@nateverge1167 They said they're selling chocolate!
*too. Comment when you have a grasp of the English language. Sentences end with what we call a period. If you want to use the word "'cause" you need you use an apostrophe as in 'cause. Good luck.
I know this is an older video and nobody who world at the channel will see this but, I think it would be very interesting if there was a study based on how public schools and schools in general the loud environment could be affecting students in particular high schools which are one of the louder schools I've personally done tests in elementary middle high school and colleges and I found high schools to be the loudest by far I think it would be very interesting for people who are quite a bit smarter than I am to see if they can put numbers like these to use.
Try existing with tinnitus!
I was on a medication that gave me really bad tinnitus for a week. Like, please-talk-louder-because-I-can't-hear-you-over-my-tinnitus level of "bad". I know your pain brother :(
Me, who occasionally gets episodes of being unable to handle any sound except very quiet background noise and the ringing in my ears because anything else feels like it's rubbing against my eardrums the wrong way: yeah i feel you
when you have misophonia it doesn't need to be loud to kill you
nuni, or rather make you want to kill someone else. I’m really surprised there aren’t more misphonia related homicides.
No one ever died from it.
@@evilsharkey8954 There are some, no doubt.
Now imagine that withouth you trying you automatically focus on all the sounds at once and you will hear more sounds that are less loud that others cant hear, but actually are there and it always being that way for ur entire life.
So THIS is why drummers tend to get faster during a song. They sneakily try to work on shortening a gig with the ultimate goal of a 9 second gig.
🤔🧐
unless you’re lars ulrich
FinallY!!!
I didn't need studies to know all of this!!
They should play this in school districts that have low scores and loud noises
I wonder: if a deaf person consistently goes into “noisy” environments, will their eardrums still get messed up even if they couldn’t hear anything in the first place? Can they even GET tinnitus?
Probably depends on the part that doesn't work (i have no evidence for this it is just a theory)
Yes, but they would never have the symptoms (since they cant perceive it)
It depends on the type of deafness they have and what is causing their deafness. If their deafness is due to damage of the auditory nerves but the mechanics of the inner ear are intact then yes they can still suffer damage to their inner ear from loud noises but won't necessarily perceive the damage in the same way as the sound information is not reaching the brain via the auditory nerve.
People who are deaf can often feel loud noises as vibration in the body or as pressure in the ear even if that pressure isn't translated into sound by the brain.
If someone is deaf because they were born without the bones of the inner ear then loud noises probably wouldn't affect them as much as the vibrations would not be passed directly to the cochlear from the eardrum via the bones.
There mechanics behind hearing are complex and multilayered and a person's condition or experience of deafness may be very different depending on the cause of the deafness even if the symptoms end up seeming the same.
I'm an autistic hearing person, I get pretty mild tinnitus, but it rarely just /sounds/ like ringing. It's not the same as someone ringing a bell in the same room. It's like a ringing /inside your head/. It's not loud but it feels the same way loud noise does.
Just some insight.
Great question!
In my city, the local events center allows a promoter to contract their facility for seasonal rave events. They go way past municipal quiet times and the idiots that run the city were easily placated by the promoters' promise to "point the speakers in a different direction".
meanwhile, a couple miles from the facility, their subs are measurable with an SPL meter app on my phone at 1 am. makes me feel like I'm freaking out.
WHY IS YOUR VIDEO BLURRY EVERYTHING ELSE IS SHARP EXCEPT THE VIDEO OF YOU
You are basically shouting at a video that tells how noise is bad. :)
Noise-dampening earplugs are great for concerts, they let you still here the people talking to you AND the music. Apps like SoundPrint are lifesavers, too.