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After about 30 minutes of the noise pumping into my head, I start to hear things..
Since there's a higher probability of this phenomenon in those with psychological disorders, individuals should likely be evaluated by a mental health professional if they are hearing these hallucinations, advises Ruth Reisman, an audiologist who focuses on rehabilitation with hearing technology..
Luckily for me and anyone else dealing with this particular affliction, it turns out theres a perfectly normal reason you may hear random sounds in white noise (or any other continuous noise)..
Simply put, your brain is trying to figure out what its hearing, so its filling in the gaps of the noise youre listening to with a common sound...
But your brain recognizes the pattern and tries to make sense of it, which leads to hearing noises that arent actually there..
