Why do I hear talking when the fan is on?

In other words, pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon where you interpret a vague stimulus (in our example, fan noise) as something known to the observer (in this case, music). Thus you perceive this as something significant (real), when it is not really significant (real).
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Why do I hear voices when I turn a fan on?

But if you are close enough to an antenna the electromagnetic field can be strong enough to oscillate at the frequency of the transmitter. If it vibrates strongly enough, as metal parts within the base of the fan appear to have, it can make a noise loud enough for you to hear.
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Why do I keep hear conversations in my head?

It's common to think that hearing voices must be the sign of a mental health condition, but in fact many people who are not mentally unwell hear voices. People may hear voices because of: traumatic life experiences, which may be linked to post-traumatic stress disorder. stress or worry.
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What is phantom hearing?

Tinnitus occurs when the tiny hairs in your ears that transmit sound signals don't function properly. When this happens – typically because these tiny hairs become damaged – you may have the sense that you are hearing phantom noises.
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What triggers auditory hallucinations?

Auditory hallucinations are caused by a number of psychiatric illnesses, most notably schizophrenia. They can also happen in bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and dementia. Understanding the underlying illness can guide how it's treated.
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Are auditory hallucinations serious?

Some auditory hallucinations can have dangerous complications. They can command an individual to hurt others or result in death by suicide. With this in mind, it is important to get help before such complications occur.
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What does schizophrenia sound like?

They can sound more like a murmur, a rustle or a beeping. But when a voice is a recognizable voice, more than often, it's not very nice. “It's not like wearing an iPod”, says the Stanford anthropologist Tanya Luhrman. “It's like being surrounded by a gang of bullies.”
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Why do I hear talking in white noise?

Music Ear Syndrome (MES) is a condition triggered by silence or background sounds that cause some people to hear phantom music , singing, or voices. MES music and singing can either by clear or vague whereas voices are usually always vague and indistinct.
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Why is silence so loud?

It's noisy. The brain creates noise to fill the silence, and we hear this as tinnitus. Perhaps only someone with profound deafness can achieve this level of silence, so paradoxically loud.
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What is the sound we hear in silence?

You might hear a faint thud from the blood pumping close to your ears or a quiet hiss caused by auditory neurons spontaneously firing in the brain. Normally these are hidden by external sounds entering the ears, but in an anechoic chamber or silent desert they can become just audible.
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How can I stop hearing voices at night?

Ignore the voices, block them out or distract yourself. For example, you could try listening to music on headphones, exercising, cooking or knitting. You might have to try a few different distractions to find what works for you. Give them times when you agree to pay attention to them and times when you will not.
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Is it normal to imagine conversations?

For most people, talking to yourself is a normal behavior that is not a symptom of a mental health condition. Self-talk may have some benefits, especially in improving performance in visual search tasks.
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Why do I hear whispers in my sleep?

These are thought to occur due to your brain being partly in a dreaming state and in themselves are nothing to worry about. Normally, sleep hallucinations are visual, but they can also be auditory. 2 If you are hearing a voice or voices, they will usually be saying something brief, such as your name.
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Can ceiling fans cause hallucinations?

Rotating fan blades and pulsating circular patterns are the most salient biased hallucinations. Apparent motion and fractal (1/f) noise are also effective in driving hallucinatory pattern formation (the latter is consistent with predictions of spatiotemporal pattern formation driven by stochastic resonance).
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Do you have schizophrenia?

you've experienced 1 or more of the following symptoms most of the time for a month: delusions, hallucinations, hearing voices, incoherent speech, or negative symptoms, such as a flattening of emotions. your symptoms have had a significant impact on your ability to work, study or perform daily tasks.
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Are auditory hallucinations normal?

Auditory hallucinations are the most common type experienced. Some patients report hearing voices; others hear phantom melodies. But increasing evidence over the past two decades suggests hearing imaginary sounds is not always a sign of mental illness. Healthy people also experience hallucinations.
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Does silence really exist?

That's what we learned from neuroscientist Dr. Seth Horowitz of Brown University; true silence is non-existent. "In truly quiet areas," he writes in his book, The Universal Sense, "you can even hear the sound of air molecules vibrating inside your ear canals or the fluid in your ears themselves."
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What is a black noise?

Black noise is a type of noise where the dominant energy level is zero throughout all frequencies, with occasional sudden rises; it is also defined as silence. Contrary to general consideration, sound and silence are not each other's opposite, but they are mutually inclusive.
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Can you visit the quietest room in the world?

The Orfield Laboratories, once dubbed “the quietest place on earth” (see below), is now open to the public and has become a tourist hot spot.
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Is white noise harmful?

The highest safe exposure level for adults is 85 decibels over eight hours. Some researchers claim that white noise can lead to children developing auditory processing disorders. This is because the brain quickly adapts to the sound and stops acknowledging it as something worth listening to.
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Is white noise real?

White noise is random noise that has a flat spectral density — that is, the noise has the same amplitude, or intensity, throughout the audible frequency range (20 to 20,000 hertz). White noise is so named because it's analogous to white light, which is a mixture of all visible wavelengths of light.
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Can you hear whispering through walls?

Yes, listening devices can hear conversations through walls of an office building or home, whether they are made from brick, concrete, sheetrock or other materials. An audio surveillance device can even allow someone to hear whispering in the adjacent room as long as the microphone is sensitive enough.
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Does anxiety cause you to hear voices?

Can severe anxiety cause you to hear voices? Yes, severe anxiety can cause a person to hear voices. It's not that severe anxiety can lead to psychosis, but that severe anxiety stresses the body, and stress can cause psychosis-like sensory symptoms, such as hearing voices that aren't real.
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What do bipolar voices sound like?

It's often incoherent with a few words and sentences scattered about and all of it incredibly loud. The loudness of it all makes it an extremely intense experience, like being at the cinema with the sound booming all around you.
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At what age does schizophrenia usually appear?

In most people with schizophrenia, symptoms generally start in the mid- to late 20s, though it can start later, up to the mid-30s. Schizophrenia is considered early onset when it starts before the age of 18. Onset of schizophrenia in children younger than age 13 is extremely rare.
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