so i have this incredibly annoying noise in my left ear only. it is tinnitus and i saw a specialist and he says it may be the onset of otosclorisis... (arthritis in the ear)
i do occasionally hear this high pitched tone that you describe but i think pretty much everyone does at one time or another..

so yer the noise in my ear drives me insane and i'm waiting to see a specialist to get a second opinion.. some nights i don't think i'll ever get to sleep with it constantly in my ear and nothing seems to settle it.
butttt i don't really have any experiences with these "other" "variously pitched" tones you're describing..

[edit on 2/12/08 by pretty_vacant]

go into nature and see if you experience the same noises,away from other people.

In my case, I've been with different rock bands since 1995 and yeah, you can say I have that too. It's not 24/7 though. Am planning to have it checked up.

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[edit on 30-1-2009 by 12m8keall2c]

I have it too, and it can be annoying.
I checked my blood pressure last week, and was normal.
Why is it so common? I see alot of threads about it and alot of theories as to what the cause is.

Originally posted by mushroomalex
This sound rally odd, but sometimes i can hear the electricity in household objects, my parents think im mad, when i say the static noise from the tv is giving me a head ache, they think im really odd. Its nice to know other people have the same ideas, maybe there are waves being sent to our brians from outer space and they are making our hearing go strange???

Hi there I'm new here, but decided to sign on when I read your post! No it doesn't sound odd at all, I have the same thing! It goes further for me though. With the sound turned off I can hear that the TV is on. (typically, someone is watching the tele with the sound turned all the way down so as not to disturb sleepers like say, in the middle of the night.) And I can tell also tell where the person is in the room because the person blocks the sound of the TV! So if I am in another room I can "hear" that your TV is on and I know if you're sitting to the left, center or right of it because the sound is not in that part of the room! We use to have a television that we'd have to turn the sound down every evening before we went to bed. The cable would update it's cable box contents once in a while during the night and for some reason this would trigger the TV to turn itself on which was terrifying if the sound was left as is! lol! I could hear if this had happened if I was awake and I'd come downstairs to turn it off. If it was really late there would be nothing but that creepy poltergist static. (Everyone hated this TV ha!) When I was younger I used to be able to hear people as well, making it possible to go directly to them in a large building, or neighborhood. It never once crossed my mind as a psychic thing, it definitely has to do with sound, people make their own noise. I'm happy to know someone else has this! Do you find that new appliances are harder to hear now? I have a flat screen and it doesn't make the same sound. Or maybe I just got old Ha!