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Originally Posted by CrazyLo
I keep hearing crickets chirping, over and over again. It is very quiet. Doesn't seem to get better or change volume when I go to another room or outside.
I have read that tinnitus can sound like crickets chirping. Is there a way to tell the difference between tinnitus and hallucinations? I do have hallucinations anyway, but haven't started hearing crickets until this morning. It has been lasting for a couple of hours now.
I have never tried this because my other auditory hallucinations happen too quickly and don't last long enough...but if you plug your ears, can you still hear the hallucination? I have plugged my ears and I still hear crickets. I'm starting to think it's tinnitus.
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Crickets make an intermittent sound and should be easily differentiated from tinnitus. Cicadas, on the other hand, make a constant high pitched buzz that I find quite painful, even through a closed car window. But your test of blocking your ears to see if you get any relief is probably the most practical test. As far as hallucinations go, I can't see why such a meaningless noise can be brought up by our psyches into any real hallucination. I may be wrong, but I wouldn't get hung up on it being anything clinical to worry about. Chat to your doc by all means, but don't loose any sleep over it if you can manage to ignore it.
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