Friday Reader Question Forum – #2
January 21, 2010
Okay, I’ve only done one of these, and it was more than a year ago, so I guess we’re long overdue. This weird question comes from me:
“When you’re wearing headphones or ear buds, do you ever feel fluid or ear wax or something moving around in your ears?”
I seriously think I can feel something move sometimes when I’m listening to music on headphones. And I don’t think I have unusually waxy or stuffed up ears. Am I alone?
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What you’re probably hearing is the fluid in the cochlea or other fluids in the head that are amplified when you block the ear canals.
I don’t exactly hear it though, it’s more that I feel it.
I don’t have that problem with earbuds, but it sounds very similar to what happens when I hear a sudden very loud noise close to my ear. It’s like feeling a lot of liquid shifting around inside my skull.
Maybe I’m just listening to music way too loud!
I don’t remember ever feeling that, exactly, but I have noticed that when I’ve been listening to my earbuds a lot (especially loudly), my ears get really waxy. Like the music is some sort of pied piper for the wax…ok, now I’m just being gross *and* weird