Can you make sound come out of your ears?

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I can make clicking and roaring noises in my ears, and the truly weird thing is that others can hear the clicking.

I always thought it was all in my head, until one day I was curled up on the sofa, clicking away in my head, with teen dd snuggled up next to me, and suddenly she asked "What's that clicking noise?"

Google suggests that I am tensing my tensor tympani muscle to make the roaring noise, but I cannot find any explanation for how I make the clicking noise. I think it must be something to do with the Eustacian Tube, as I cannot do it when I'm bunged up with a cold.

Any other ear weirdies out there, who can generate sound from their ears?

I was laughing at this thread but DS says he can hear the clicking noise my ears are making and is freaked out.

Oh my god for years and years I’ve thought it was only me that could make her ears click and roar! Not sure if anyone else can hear it because I’ve never asked, but it’s so loud and roary to me. In fact, I can remember the exact moment I remember doing it, on a UK holiday about 9/10 yo in a swimming pool trying to empty my ears of water. I’ve always wondered if the water had anything to do with it 😂🤷🏻‍♀️😂

I can do both the clicking and the rumbling, but I didn't realise other people could hear the clicking outside of my own head!

[quote Honeybobbin]@SarahAndQuack I hope you know I meant bonkers in the nicest possible way! [/quote]
You're fine!

It's such a weird topic.

Wtaf! Most intriguing! I now need instructions & diagrams for this witchery. I have a clicky jaw but it definitely does not compare to this 🙃

I always assumed that my ear clicks could only be heard in my own head and not by other people.

I'm really tempted to wake DH up and see if he can heat my clicking ears.

People who can click their ears- Is it the same clicking as when you internally clear your ears like when you're on a flight? Like an inside yawn or swallow?
I do that but didn't think it could be heard outside my own head

Woah this is awesome!

Never heard of it before in my life!

But I found out I 'have' aphantasia though MN so all power to the people with unusual powers!!!

@Dixierun treasure your clicky jaw- I had one for years and was very proud of my party trick, then one day, gone. It was like losing a superpower

Oh my god I've never met anyone who didn't give me an odd look when I've said I do this. I thought it was normal!

I can rumble (don't think anyone else hears it) and click my ears...

I can also whistle out of my ears, the first time I did it was during an ENT appointment. The specialist heard it.

I have aphantasia too @NiceGerbil - I've always been super worried about being asked to describe a suspect by police.

I can make my tongue into a flower shape which is my only weird thing

I absolutely cannot understand either the roaring or the clicking - I wouldn’t even know where to begin to make any sort of sound in my ears. I’m particularly intrigued by the ‘roaring’ - what do you mean a roar? Like the roar of an animal or the roar of the sea?

Honestly, mind blown 🤯

When I yawn I hear a noise like a rumble or a sort of groany roar, but it's definitely not being made in my throat. Faking a yawn also triggers the noise. And I can also do it without visibly moving my mouth.

None of my family could click or roar in their ears, but one of my dc worked out how to the roar from the above explanation.

Hope this helps those of you who want to develop this skill

The thing that I found really interesting when there were some aphantasia threads was

A. I had no idea it was a thing and it explained a lot and

B. How quick and naturally it came to loads of posters to say. I can't imagine living like that. It's a real detriment. I expect people with this lack imagination, are more likely to be autistic, are missing out on so much...

It was a real life example of how a new 'other' is assumed to be lacking. Really interesting in a not good way.

How people's brains work, how to educate has been based in, probably. A group of men in Victorian England.

A lot of emphasis on learning by rote.

My friend who did languages told me she could visualise the list of verbs etc. My dad said that about the times tables. He could see a picture of them in his head.

I think education is slanted too much to that tbh. I don't know my times tables. But I have 2 maths a levels and a degree in physics.

The focus on rote learning/ just remembering stuff bothers me. It caters to people with a certain brain type.

How many clever children are being discarded by this focus on memory?

Maths in particular. How many children are learning that it's all about memorising, rote? Turning them off for life.

Sorry that's a tangent

I think that we all experience the world differently and it's not really understood/ taken account of.

It's thought some of the most famous composers and artists had synatheasthia (sp).

How our brains work and how we experience the world needs more looking at I think.

Yes, I can. Didn't realise not everyone could. Didn't realise it could be heard outside my head!!

WHAAAAT?! I do this quite a lot and didn't realise other people can hear!

I can make my ears click too! I first did it when I was about three years old and tried to explain to my mother who was completely bewildered. I never knew that other people could do it as well!

Just asked DH.

He clicked at me but can't roar.

I can't do either!

Wish I knew how I'm making the clicking.

I can make my ears click and roar! Other people can only hear the clicking though, not the roaring, as that would be weird.

Woah.

Mind blown. How do you make eyes or ears click? And the roaring?! What kind of roaring?!

You are making the clicking/popping noise by causing a little pressure wave to travel down your eustacian tube, I think. You open and close the back of your throat, which affects the pressure in the eustacian tube.

I roar, too, but didn't ever really think about it. It's just a noise that happens when I yawn/suppress/fake a yawn. I canst sustain it for more than a couple of seconds.

I'm intrigued by eye clicking!

No, but if you rearrange the letters in ears I can certainly produce some fine acoustics from that body part.