So first blog day I was going to leave things with just a simple starting entry, no padding for the sake of it, just blog stuff as it goes. Then I heard an original series Star Trek Tricorder.

So to be true to my original plan I’m blogging as it goes.

Lets talk about noises that aren’t there.

As far back as I can remember I’ve heard stuff that isn’t there, or rather that my brain has just decided to play to me. As a youngster this could be confusing (and no I never told anyone about it if you don’t count all those times I asked people if they could hear it too). I learned reasonably quickly that, for me at least, there was a noticeable difference between real and unreal noises and that I could easily tell the difference (as long as there was some real noise happening at the time).

To this day seemingly random noises will still play in my head from time to time and no they are not all Star Trek or even Sci-Fi based; yes sometimes they can be voices but usually if they are it’ll be someone just calling my name. Sometimes I will still have to tap something or make some other real world noise, like I did when I was a child, just to check.

Is there any up side to this? Well sort of, for me anyway, as I discovered in my late teens I could play back entire songs in my head as though I had a built in Mp3 player. The down side to it was the more I played music to myself the harder it was to tell real from unreal sounds so I try not to do it too often.

-S