SomethingElse
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I have tinnitus. If you have it too, then you know it's only a problem when you think about it. And that it's not actually in your hearing. But in a part of the brain that connects your brain with the sensors from your ear drums. The wiring, sort of speak.
Ever so often, I'm awaken (usually just as I'm falling asleep) by a loud noise. Last night, it was knocking. I didn't fully awaken until after the knocking stopped. It was 4 or 5 quick knocks. At about the same rate as someone normally knocking on your door. Startled, I got up, looked out the window, checked the door. Checked out the drive way and the back door. And there was nothing or no one there.
It dawned on me this morning that my brother had came by yesterday, when I was in the backroom putting my bed together. He said he knocked, but I didn't hear him. So this morning he stopped by, I asked him to go to that same door, while I was in the back room, and knock as he did yesterday. I heard this knocking this time.
Ok, so here's the medical question to all of this. You know how when someone has a brain injury, or nerve damage somewhere, their body has a way of re-routing those signals to and from the brain. And it takes longer for the signals to get to or back from the brain. Head injury people are usually slower to react.
So I'm wondering if I actually heard the knocking at the door (yesterday), but the signal didn't reach my brain until that night, after I was relaxed and not thinking about anything else.
Ever so often, I'm awaken (usually just as I'm falling asleep) by a loud noise. Last night, it was knocking. I didn't fully awaken until after the knocking stopped. It was 4 or 5 quick knocks. At about the same rate as someone normally knocking on your door. Startled, I got up, looked out the window, checked the door. Checked out the drive way and the back door. And there was nothing or no one there.
It dawned on me this morning that my brother had came by yesterday, when I was in the backroom putting my bed together. He said he knocked, but I didn't hear him. So this morning he stopped by, I asked him to go to that same door, while I was in the back room, and knock as he did yesterday. I heard this knocking this time.
Ok, so here's the medical question to all of this. You know how when someone has a brain injury, or nerve damage somewhere, their body has a way of re-routing those signals to and from the brain. And it takes longer for the signals to get to or back from the brain. Head injury people are usually slower to react.
So I'm wondering if I actually heard the knocking at the door (yesterday), but the signal didn't reach my brain until that night, after I was relaxed and not thinking about anything else.