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@JimmyRis I think it's immune driven sound sensitivity. Been exploring the cochlear area (https://t.co/DikQ1pPSAo) and serotonin lately as that might be the key. https://t.co/ohPIpvF8Xs
@Grimhood @NgoloTesla My hair stands on end when someone turns on microwave in the house. Also get fear responses from household electrical motors kicking in that I find goes away if feet aren't touching the ground. Tested it for EMF & it seems 100% acoustic.Truck engines idle at similar sound freq.
@ultimape https://t.co/7tpZO31Rod
@JimmyRis I learned how to detect where sounds were coming from by using a "sensory saccade" pattern and positioning my feet in a certain way. I'm hoping to prove this kind of thing is a possible skill to learn in humans. https://t.co/lc3jvQCIxblooks dumb as shit when I do it tho, lol.
@JimmyRis In people don't have vision, they'll move their hands and their head in really interesting patterns that make more sense when you frame it as a sensory saccade like the whiskers of a mouse or a cat. Sensing airflow+vibrations is my guess.
@JimmyRis An interesting tangential observation is that hearing abnormalities that only affect one ear is common in autism and multiple sclerosis. Been learning how to spot this head movement: https://t.co/KdfBVFMWvl as a diagnostic tell. (think 'poker tell').
@JimmyRis When the power goes out, I can sense all this sound stuff better. I think it's the mains hum.Lately I've been bothered a lot by hearing sound from capacitors within ultrasonic occupancy detectors. Lots of hum in CFLs are due to frequency transformations.https://t.co/iFepTjkCnG
@JimmyRis My entire family hear these things. I didn't realize what it was until my electronics engineering coursework in college. Not many people really understand how these things work, much less care about them. Maybe some audiophilies might.https://t.co/4h0pO88WXN
@JimmyRis I diagnosed a miswiring in our campus' radio station b/c the sound was out of phase when I was listening on headphones. Took me referencing 6 papers and a lot of annoying of the head of the radio club before they looked at the wiring. It was exactly as I predicted. Sound is hard.
@JimmyRis Most of things that people complain about "EMF" on are things like giant wind power installations and being near electrical transformers. They look online and see 'EMF', but no one ever controls for sound.It's only just started being researched in mice https://t.co/Sl3rbsrXms
@JimmyRis So complaints of illness and unease/anxiety may actually be grounded (heh) in acoustic effects impacting the immune system and gut microbiota. Because 'EMF' is a fake explanation, it's often chocked up to a psychology thing.The obvious answer is its a psycho-acoustic effect.
@JimmyRis So if it is a 'sound' issue, the mental model of "EMF" would actually still work in most cases. Moving the source of sound away from you would be the same as moving a source of EMF. The rest can be driven people's anxiety over it leading to a feedback loop.
@JimmyRis In a lot of the studies that 'disproved' the effect, the showed that even when a WIFI transmitter was turned off, people still complained. They don't control for actually shutting off the mains in any of the experiments I read.
@JimmyRis Similarly motor sounds from plumbing pumps, heating fans resonating thru ductwork, and a whole host of sound sources all seem to be ignored. And because the focus is on 'EMF', everybody is running into stree-light effect bias, IMHO. https://t.co/bZWByFY8Oe
@JimmyRis TL;DR: autistics are sensitive to sound, and so are gut microbes.https://t.co/rEcWHjUYEsI was going to explore this exact space more, but then pandemic hit and all the places I respond poorly to were cut off.https://t.co/5eWJnBVH6u
Going to have a lot of fun this year while trying to find out what triggers my acoustic habituation responses.I think it's a feedback loop between my immune system and responses to mosquito.What does mosquito saliva smell like?https://t.co/LXh0A8bzYk https://t.co/L9aK5kVBDh
@JimmyRis Been on my radar for a while.https://t.co/gbKW0wNObw
@JimmyRis I even found a direct causal mechanism for how microbiota might be reducing the startle response. Tho that isn't quite the same as the weird overactivity of the tympanic membrane oddities and hyperacusis.https://t.co/blmlvey9rm
Woke up and saw this."The microbiota-deficient mice were unable to update their response, and showed persistent fearful behaviour long after control animals had adapted."https://t.co/ashYppGqzKRight on schedule; my mouth watered in sync with my circadian rhythm.
@JimmyRis One of the simple tests I can do is that I should be able to induce the same brain waves patterns attributed to "EMF" by simply piping sound into an otherwise EMF free room. Tho the actual brainscanning tech being a source of EMF complicates things.https://t.co/OOnCG4AmIl
"They looked for Broca's area, a key area of the frontal lobe used for language and speech production. The overlap between the brain region identified as Broca's area by DOT data and by fMRI scans was about 75 percent."https://t.co/bJ65amw5vO 😏https://t.co/Hcg1rmd02v
@JimmyRis In mice, it seems possible to stick optical fiber into their brains and watch infra-red signals while still having the electronic components far enough away (and sheilded) to avoid measurable EMF associated gauss readings. Not fair to mice tho.