The last few times I taught TM I got a question I had not prepared for during teacher training. People would ask, "What's that ringing in my ears?" I figured the sound had always been there, but the person had never been quiet enough to hear it. But then I read this in a recent New Yorker:
"Some people with normal hearing develop spontaneous tinnitus when placed in total silence; this is believed to be a response of the auditory cortex to the abnormal absence of all ambient sounds." - Jerome Groopman, "That Buzzing Sound," The New Yorker, February 9 & 16, 2009 Anybody else here run across this experience?
