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brainpanhandler » Thu Aug 11, 2011 1:38 am wrote:

professorpan » 29 Mar 2007 18:36 wrote:Let's not forget the ravishing cosmologist/musician Fiorella Terenzi:

http://www.fiorella.com/

coffin_dodger » 28 Jun 2013 14:01 wrote:

brainpanhandler » Thu Aug 11, 2011 1:38 am wrote:

Thanks BPH, that is superb. Subtlely, spookily melodious.

Actually, come to think of it, I miss the sounds of dial-up. As the sonic precursor gateway to a (then) new world, it was a bit like the moment a theatre curtain begins raising on an act you've been dying to see.

Fond memories of the dial-up tone. I really should get a life.

brainpanhandler » Sat Aug 03, 2013 10:58 pm wrote:That is so alien and not natural and unlike anything else my ears have ever been subjected to that it confuses my brain.

brainpanhandler » Sat Aug 03, 2013 10:58 pm wrote:If it were very much longer I would have to stop listening. It’s not exactly disturbing, but it’s not in the least soothing. I’m not sure what it makes me feel, but somehow I vaguely sense it’s not inconsequential.

brainpanhandler » Sat Aug 03, 2013 10:58 pm wrote:I think if i were to listen to it again I might discover that it’s effect on me derives from trying and failing to find something familiar to hang on to.

brainpanhandler » Wed Nov 13, 2013 12:17 pm wrote:

eyeno » Thu May 12, 2011 12:48 pm wrote:I know that this phenomena is real because I personally know very sane people that report these effects. They have tinnitus in their ears. They have been to many doctors but the doctors are clueless. Sometimes it gets so bad they report that their brain feels inflamed. They hear sounds that sound like morse code sometimes. Sometimes it sounds like music, a television, people talking, etc..Sometimes they feel disoriented, weak, sick. When they turn their head one way the sound changes or goes away, and when they turn their head back to its original position the sound resumes.

I was just in southeast MO at a place called Alley Spring. Amazing place. 81 million gallons a day comes out of this spring. We hiked to the top of the bluff above the spring and I had one of the most intense auditory hallucinations (?) I have ever had. It was a very low, deep bass tone. Mostly it was constant, but occasionally it would pulse. I only "heard" it in my left ear. I put heard in quotes because it wasn't so much hearing as feeling. That was one of the really strange things about it. It vibrated my skull with what felt like a resonant frequency. (Do auditory hallucinations do that?) It was very loud. If I turned around it would change, becoming more or less resonant, more or less loud. It made me feel a bit disoriented, but I could attribute that to the strangeness of the experience. When I moved away from the spot it disappeared. When I moved back it resumed. My partner heard nothing.

brainpanhandler » Thu Nov 14, 2013 12:45 pm wrote:About the strange tones I heard:


Alley Spring


View of Alley Spring from bluffs above

The pulsed tone was heard on the bluffs overlooking Alley Spring. I've been looking for a conventional explanation. It seems to me that water flowing underground might well generate some interesting hydroacoustic dynamics. I was thinking maybe some sort of semi-audible/felt infrasound of some sort. This article: http://www.wtpoptics.com/Infrasonic.pdf seems to provide some support for that theory. Who knows what I was standing on. We were a couple of hundred feet above the spring at that point.

Another conventional answer might be that some sort of mapping technology that utilizes pulsed vlf waves or EM energy of some sort that could set up a resonance effect in the underground cavities was being used at the time and I just happened to be at the right place at the right time to hear it.

brainpanhandler » Thu Nov 14, 2013 8:34 pm wrote:The red building was an old mill and the white building was an old school house. There had been a swedish settlement there. 81 million gallons of fresh water come out of that spring every day. The water stays at a steady 58 degrees f. I imagine on a hot summer day that would have been nice.

I don't think I've properly emphasized just how intense this experience was. I was dumbfounded. I've had auditory hallucinations before. I often here faint, distant music that no one else seems to hear. Despite it's faintness it's very vivid to me. I hear other things. This was different. It was LOUD. If you've ever had your hearing tested imagine hearing the lowest tone in the test through one headphone loud enough that it vibrates your skull.(minor correction from previous post. It was my right ear that I heard the tone in) I've heard tones before, but this was completely unprecedented. And moving my head about like an old fashioned antenna to adjust the clarity and volume was disconcerting. That's the detail in Eyeno's post that caught my attention. Neuropathology is a possibility. Perhaps I should get my head examined.

I wrote:Who knows what I was standing on.

Gasconade Dolomite (Lower Ordovician)—Dolomite, chert, sandstone,
and orthoquartzite.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3161/pdf/sim31 ... ing_mo.pdf