I can hear T.Vs, computers and power lines. Power lines are the worst, 'coz they make a low-pitched buzzing (annoying as hell), while T.Vs and computers make a high-pitched ringing noise. That's what I hear around them anyway.

I can hear lots of those things that everyone else has described... not going to go into all of them. Also, the other day I was on my cell phone with my husband, and I had the phone against my left ear. Strangely enough, whenever he would talk, I would hear some weird sound in my right ear. Like a hum or something.

I think that particular incident has more to do with my deviated septum, though.

I do believe that EMF affect us in ways that can be heard. That is my basic explanation for any funny sounds I hear around appliances.

I can kinda do that, when I go into the house I can tell my TV in the room is on, I just hear a faint sound in my head, my bro hears it too.

It's just the high pitched electrical frequency emitted by electronic devices, I think everyone can hear it.

Here's a thread I started on it a few months ago:
www.abovetopsecret.com...

Wowowowow... something amazing happened today.

I "had" high frequency hearing in my youth (lol ok, I'm not that old) but it seamed to me that after a few years of living in the city, I either "got used to it" or it went away. Sure, I could still hear lights and computers and televisions, etc, etc, etc... but it wasn't to the point of going postal on people, or feeling lightening as it once had been.

Anyway, I've had some pain in my neck and upper back, so I went for some trigger point therapy and instantly... I mean I can't describe how automatically this happened, it was like flipping a light switch; I could hear high frequencies again. Something released in my trapezoids and all that stuff that I had been holding there (probably the stress of city life) just melted away. It's an amazing feeling to be back to myself......... but now I have a gazillion noises that I'm trying to process and I'm probably going to get pretty moody as the day proceeds.

I can't believe this. It's a way radical feeling.

Cant we all hear eletricity? Especially when its on. I think the main question is how loud do you hear it? I hear it extremly clear, on or off. I hear it when I'm alone with no other sounds around. Sometimes its extremly annoying. When I go outside all the power lines and transformers in the area start a loud humm. I think its normal to hear eletricity to a point. I have noticed that as I got older I hear it more intensly. Or maybe I just pay more attention to it now.

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Have you looked into this sensitivity as maybe a sort of OCD? That may not be the right term. Maybe you are sensitive not just because you have very sharp hearing but also because you fixate on sounds? Possibly there is a way to tune out extraneous sounds so you dont get irritated so much. People with tinitus learn to cope because there is no cure for it.

I am a teenager and i have heard it for quite a few years. I always have a repeated ringing in my ear pretty much no matter where i am except for when im outside not near electricity. I don't know if its electricity that makes me hear the ringing but when someone turns on a tv i can hear the tv whistling far more then i can with the regular whistle. Not only that but i also can hear the whistle change when i change the channel on the tv whether its on mute and whether or not i know someone is changing the channel. Occasionally for no reason i will get a very large sounding whistle for no apparent reason. Last thing is that when i really focus i can lower how much of it i hear. I was just wondering for anyone else out there with the same thing is there a way to control it? P.S. I have met people with the same thing as me however they dont describe it the same way i do, but they get the same result from things like tvs.
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Nope. I cannot hear electricity other than the humming noise from electrical appliances. I do, however, hear at least one constant high-pitched frequency since childhood. Weeeee!

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I can hear it too but when I'm in an area with large electricity pulses I get major headaches

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I was with my family in Tunisia and we pulled off the road under some huge power lines to walk a bit into the desert. All of us could hear the power lines humming very clearly, not buzzing and crackling, but a very low hum. Since that, I hear it everywhere, in whatever country I'm in. I even went backpacking ten miles into Desolation Wilderness in Lake Tahoe, CA and could hear it there. I felt as though I'd been "tuned" in the desert and now I have the curse of hearing electricity everywhere. I was glad to find this discussion and will Google "transformer hum" ASAP. Thanks people.

It's hard to explain but I too have the ability to hear electricity, and I can tell you it is not the hum from transformers that I hear but the current itself. For example the light bulb in my computer room just died and I herd my light bulb dieing over a 3 hour period. You see every electronic device including light bulbs make a noise however it is when the device is dieing, damaged or inefficient that the sound becomes so loud that it is hard to ignore. From my experience growing up as a child and asking many people if they could hear "that noise," I can tell you few people can hear it.

I had a friend with the ability photographic memory and was able to look at a paper for a few seconds and make a full copy of it because she could still see the picture in their short term memory.

No matter how much people want to be normal, you must understand that there is no such thing. Everyone has something about themselves that is different from the majority of the population. The question is, can you make your differences into strengths rather then weaknesses?