Tinnitus

Question 1

How does our brain identify sound?

Answer 1

By matching the electrical patterns with familiar patterns from memory emotion and meaning are also attached to the sounds. So all learning is analogy based it is all based on things before it. With the most basic basis being 0 and or one. Self awareness. The question of Real or unreal

Question 2

If you don’t want to be found….until later

Answer 2

Hide….but create a compelling mystery

Question 3

How does a cochlea work?

Answer 3

Sound waves are translated into electrical nerve impulses via 17000 tiny hair shaped sensory organs called hair cells

Question 4

What is tinnitus add this to writing.

Answer 4

No one knows for sure, probably multiple separate things that end in similar symptoms. I choose to believe it’s the movement or the hairlike sensors moving because of sound waves. It’s called otoacoustic emissions. It’s a real sound, it can be recorded and even ppl without tinnitus can hear the sounds under the right circumstances. So you are hearing the sound of hearing. Which is fuckin badass. It’s l
You are hearing the wind blow over long grass in a field. It’s a real place. Aplace you could go if you were small enough.

Question 5

1953 Heller and Bergman. Placebo vs hearing hearing

Answer 5

Press the button when you hear a sound. 5 minutes of silence 93% of students pressed the button. And reported later hearing buzzing pulsing and whistling. If you listen you will hear. You will hear silence. While you have a body. Ability to hear means no silence.

Question 6

Hyperacusis

Answer 6

Extreme sensitivity to external sound. An overcompensation with unknown cause. 40% of people with tinitus also report varying degrees of hypercausis

Question 7

David ryugo, galvanized institute of Sydney, and abi Harrison, place, as seen in boxes before I read the tinitus book

Answer 7

Whe the brain experiences a reduction or change in auditory stimulation, it will find ways to fill the empty space.

Question 8

Why shouldn’t you avoid suffering Thomas merton

Answer 8

Because the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear

Question 9

Why is tinnitus linked with anxiety

Answer 9

In fight or flight, our senses are heightened, hearing is sharper tinnitus seems lower. It produces infinitely more stressful when it feels like it’s not going away and your trapped

Question 10

Meditation is a great example of Process not product

Answer 10

Beginning again and again is the actual practice, not a problem to overcome so that one day we can get to the ‘real meditation.’

Question 11

How to use attention control with tinnitus meditation

Answer 11

Stay focused on an object (tinnitus) while simultaneously maintaining an awareness of everything else around and in you. So occupying by switching back and forth rapidly. It’s a method of embracing distraction.

Practice switching your focus from one point of awareness to another. Try to tune everything else out.
Focus on the shift

Question 12

Pavlov and brainwave p 67

Answer 12

There is a specific, measurable, and somewhat predictable brainwave pattern directly associated with every action you could ever take with every single way you could possibly ever feel. How you feel changes your brainwaves and visa versa. You can change your mental state and how you feel by changing your brainwaves with external stimuli

Question 13

Frequency following response

Answer 13

Mosquitoes, pendulum clocks, and metronome all sync up. And women

Question 14

7 hertz theta brainwaves

Answer 14

Closely correlated with feelings of stress relief, strong relaxation, and deep meditation

Question 15

Dorsal cochlear nucleus dcn

Answer 15

Helps the brain locate where a specific sound is coming from. Could be where tinitus arises. When you clench your jaw it manipulates those nerves

Question 16

Why habituate

Answer 16

It’s a bit like being able to feel your socks. You can feel them if you really focus but why would you bother? Once you fully habituate, the noise will still be there when you consciously look for it, but you won’t be thinking about it all the time

Question 17

Tinnitus as a healthometer.

Answer 17

If it backs off, you are doing the right things. If it pipes up, look at what you are experiencing, what you are exposing yourself to, and how you are driving yourself
Liahona: tinnitus is an indicator light

Question 18

Fixing my gaze: blind people’s visual cortex

Answer 18

Lights up when ppl read braille. After 5 days blind folded, it lights up in sighted ppl. So “visual cortex” is maybe named for a common function and not the purpose. Maybe its more of a more of a spatial cortex, regardless of the sense. Research more on echo location.