This is the best description I’ve heard for this method, I always thought it was bullshit because I never heard a description that actually explained how to do this other than “tap your head 20 times”.

I have anxiety-induced hissing, which sounds/feels different from sound-induced tinnitus (which I have also experience). Sound-based tinnitus actually sounds like you’re “hearing” something in your ears, whilst the hissing I have feels like it’s “inside my head”, if that makes sense. But this technique still helps!!

Here’s a visual I found because I couldn’t understand the instructions well

My ringing just went away for the first time in years. What is this blissful quiet.

wait wait i gotta try this, i don’t think i’ve had Actual Silence since i was like 5

HOW THE FUCK

Reblogging to save a life, and also because, even if you don’t have tinnitus, this is totally worth trying if you like new sensory experiences.  

Just showed this to my dad, and in his words, “The cicadas are still there, but the train is gone.”

I can’t believe it. It turned the volume down on my cicadas (what a perfect way to describe it—cicada season is when everyone gets a taste of tinnitus) for about two minutes.

yes! temporary relief from the eternal fax machine in our skull

Alright I’ll give it a go

Oh hell I forgot I’m meant to be doing this-

Istg I break routine once and then I forget it was ever a thing

Istg I break routine

once and then I forget it

was ever a thing

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.