Humming In My Head When Mind Quiets

[Erlend]

Hey folkz

Sometimes, often during meditation but also at random times during the day when my mind quiets down, this humming sound appears in the back of my head. 

Ive heard its common to get humming like this only to the extreme when one do DMT. Any correlation?

Also, can anyone relate?

[Prabhaker]

13 hours ago, Erlend said:

when my mind quiets down, this humming sound appears

Being totally thoughtless may be the toughest thing to do but it is the only state in which you can listen to the sound of silence . This is the only sound which appears when all your thoughts are gone and your innermost core is drenched in serenity.

[Principium Nexus]

Can relate, I even hear it now and make it more prominent when I focus on it. Could be brainwaves, or ear receptors recharging making this static white noise. I think both this humming and visual snow are cognitive limits you have become aware of.

I did some research once because my dad got a tinnitus and sometimes this is caused not by any physical damage but the brain being stuck in firing patterns. Tinnitus can lead to depression and regarding the previous sentence you can understand why. There are some treatments which use electrical stimulation or just sound that is specifically modified to disrupt those patterns that are stuck. Theres some mathmatical science behind it with resonance, feedback etc.

What could be the correlation to DMT or other psychedelics then? This could be due loops, the brain can become highly focused on one thought making many iterations on the same thing. For that moment you loop in the same moment over and over again but actually feel some forward progress, its very weird. Now these loops happen at many different levels of awareness, even for some things your unconcious off.

Since I experience visual snow and some humming myself I experimented with some techniques and looked how it influenced it.

Both visual snow and humming can be very appearent but most of the time they are almost non existent for me.

From my experience pure white noise, void of any useful stimulation where the brain can make sense of, can silence the mind very well. The static white noise acts as a silent room absorbing all intentions to grasp and convert stimuli into useful concepts. It can get trippy after a while but it very relaxing if you let it be.

Because your brain stops making sense of what it receives you temporarly break your loop, the longer you get acustomed to this state the more you can distance your brains thinking from its loops

If it doesnt make any sense, try to experiment with white noise or other forms of sensory deprivation/damping and you will see