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Wow. This sounds horrifying. I have mild tinnitus that causes me endless grief (a lot of it mental: "I'll never be able to enjoy my music properly", but also trouble sleeping.)

This is just many levels worse. And bizzare! What possible gain could you derive from harming some poor sods who are only there to do a job?

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You might want to try some of those :

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/neuromodulationTonesGenera...

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteBurstsNoiseGenerator....

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/impulseNoiseGenerator.php

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php

I also find that playing a tone that is similar to my tinnitus for a while and then turning it off helps my brain to ignore the tinnitus. I use http://onlinetonegenerator.com/ and set it around 4020 Hertz

Even better, this free implementation of Acoustic Neuromodulation which seems to work on most people with tonal tinnitus : http://generalfuzz.net/acrn/

I don't want to draw too much attention to it though : it's probably infringing on a patent by the original researchers, who sell the official treatment device for a fortune.

You can get the same frequencies pattern in the first link that I linked if you click on "Try the original sequence — Neural Hack" in the text or if you set all the slider to 0 except for the yellow one.

The website recommends : "Use this sound generator as you like. It probably makes sense not using all sliders at the same time. Start with all sliders set to zero, then select the slider(s) that mask or blend with your tinnitus best. Set their levels to the minimum setting, mixing to your tinnitus so you can just hear it. You will then achieve the most efficient masking sound and the lowest fatigue. When using all the sliders, make sure to try the Animation feature, set to its maximum speed. The effect is interesting."

Yeah, except that the frequency pattern for ACRN needs to be centered around each person's particular tinnitus frequency, which the mynoise generator doesn't allow.

I love mynoise though, when I'm fed up with ACRN this generator does a pretty good job too : https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/windchimesGenerator.php

Or you could try the "Reddit Tinnitus Cure" (https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/63etps/the_reddit_t...) and tell us if it worked for you!

Sadly this never worked for me.

myNoise generators require a considerable amount of bandwidth. In order to keep the service running for an increasing number of users, non contributing visitors are restricted to one full sound every minute. This limit has been reached.

Kind of funny. Tone generators: the biggest bandwidth hog.

They could be testing out a weapon, perhaps not for military applications per se, but for spycraft and special operations.

Sure would be convenient to storm a guarded compound if all the guards were suddenly deaf. Similarly, it would be nice to use something like this as a perimeter fence of sorts. Slow exposure over time would eventually deafen the spies you suspect are surveilling your place.

The theory that the Russians were behind this, and not necessarily the Cubans, seems plausible if indeed this was a weapons test. Russia conducts a lot more SpecOps missions around the globe than Cuba does.

Yeah but you generally wouldn't test something like this on high-level diplomats, right? You'd test it where there would be no press if it worked.

I have it as well and will say that the issue IS that grief which causes sensitization ie your amygdala remodelling in response to it. Once you overcome it emotionally you won't care about it at all. I still hear it 24/7 but it doesn't make me unhappy or make my life worse in any way.

I'd really recommend you treat it like psychosomatic problem vs a sensory one.

Have you tried the Reddit tinnitus cure yet?

https://youtu.be/ajb37ie-Juo

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