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dw1. Thanks for the info, very interesting.

I've read that tinnitus is often due to hearing loss at specific frequencies. Your brain can no longer hear at certain frequencies, so it is either trying to turn the volume at that frequency up to 11 to try to hear something, or it is having a hard time processing what it's receiving (or not) and therefore you get something odd.

I've read that blind people don't live in darkness, at least, some of them. I assume the article that I'm remembering is about someone who had sight and then lost it. They said that the brain didn't know what to do with the lack of input and so created light and color that could be very distracting and made it hard for them to see. I know that if I close my eyes and try to look, I see colors and things. If I really rub my eyes, I see colors and patterns like a kaleidescope.

I guess I'm just thankful that my tinnitus is a constant high pitched whistle. When this thread or another one like it came up before, and I checked out links that had simulations of the various tinnitus, some of the sounds heard would be much more distracting and irritating.