#auditory system

[bpod-bpod]

Bush Telegraphy

Analysing and modelling cells of the brain's cochlear nuclei called globular bushy cells using volume electron microscopy to better understand how sound is perceived

Read the published research paper here

Image from work by George A Spirou and Paul B Manis, and colleagues

Department of Medical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL and Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in eLife, June 2023

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[dyanamic]

Research suggests that human ears exhibit subtle movements to enhance hearing, much like animals. Learn how this hidden ability helps us focus on sounds.

[presswoodterryryan]

The Magic of Hearing: Inside the Human Ear

By Alice Hi friends! It’s me, Alice, and today, Ariel, Mr. Fluffernutter, and I are going on our tiniest adventure yet! Imagine shrinking down to the size of a dust particle and exploring a hidden world that no one ever gets to see up close. That’s exactly what happened when we found ourselves miniaturized and taking a fantastic journey inside a human ear! As we began our adventure, we marveled…

[sophieinwonderland]

r/systemscringe still doesn't know voice hearing is a symptom of DID!

This is from the DSM-5:

Papers report voice hearing being more common in dissociative disorders than psychotic disorders.

In a comparison, DID systems were far more likely to start hearing voices before the age of 18, and to hear more than one voice.

Another r/systemscringe user claims that this isn't like there's a commentator in your head. This is also false in many cases according to research.

In the same study I referenced earlier, it was reported that the voices in DID would often make a running commentary in 55% of cases.

That's not every case, but is a slight majority and was more common than in the Schizophrenia groups.

There are lots of reasons to not put stock in the words of fakeclaimers, but the biggest one might simply be that however confident they seem in their misinformation, these people do not have even the slightest understanding of anything they're talking about.

[psychotic-system-culture-is]

Psychotic System Culture is...

Not reacting to a noise around others because you assume it's an auditory hallucination and don't want to seem weird, only for it to be an actual external sound and being weird for not reacting to it

[sillypuppybarks]

alright so I be seeing a lot of posts about ;if u are scared of bugs I think ur stupid and should unlearn that actually' or smth of that vein.

and that is honestly ableist.

because they aren't taking in the factor of WHY

many people who hallucinate hallucinate bugs (me included) crawling on them or see them around them, which can cause a fear of actual real bugs (at least I know it did for me, because having bugs on or around me makes me hallucinate MORE of them)

its just very arrogant and closed minded to say that without thinking about why someone might be scared of bugs. it doesn't matter if its a joke, its very real to some people.

also some ppl just don't like bugs and thats fine as long lol

[disabled-sysboxes]

[TEXT ID: this system struggles to decipher what is and is not an auditory hallucination]

[IMG ID: a red rectangular box with a dark desaturated red outline with an icon of a person with multiple versions of themselves coming out from the back of them, each one becoming slightly more warped, with a question mark and exclamation point next to the top of their head to the left, and the text 'this system struggles to decipher what is and is not an auditory hallucination' to the right.]

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[loser-pet]

bro having AIWS is so weird, and I think being a system makes these episodes a lot more visceral

last night I was talking to The Voices™️ (aka my headmates) about what their favourite trinket was and how I should create my headspace, and as I would talk to each of them I felt my body shifting in size (when I talked to princess my body would feel like it’s shrinking, when I talked to ruby my body would grow) and it got so much worse when I talked to Something.

it legit felt like I was growing and shrinking and the body parts were growing and shrinking and extending and it was so weird—it was like someone was playing with the customization options of my body (like when you get to customize your character at the beginning of a video game and you can choose your size and how big you want certain body parts to be).

this continued for probably 20 minutes even after I stopped talking to Something (give or take, my time perception goes out of wack when I get these episodes), and it was honestly really weird. when I get these episodes it’s normally one body part or my whole body (usually it’s my hands that increase in size, or me feeling like I’m way taller/bulkier than I actually am), but this time nothing was safe from my hallucinations. I also heard random super quiet whispers, which was definitely unpleasant

also I don’t see nearly enough representation for people with AIWS… I wish I had more folks to connect to over this weird condition

ALSO ALSO! We’ve finally decided on our system name!! From now on, us as a collective will be know as The Trinket Collective! We’ll probably make a post talking more about it in the near future -📺📚

[that-dreaming-dragon]

Vocalization

Vocalization is a interesting thing. Is it communication, or voice stim, or making voice just because?

I make a lot of noise. And I know that's a form of stimming for me. But also it provides a sense of euphoria in the ways that I'm free to express myself via making creature noise. I'm not sure how my nonhuman type that doesn't do speech would sound like. I make a lot of chirp, coos, screech, rwers. Partner call them birb noise, especially my chirps. We are pretty much in agreement that I'm a bird sort of dragon.

But I want to indulge in fox sound too, I suppose. The kitsune paratype has me perking up when there's fox video. Fox screaming at each other or that laughing fox. Parnter say my fox is like the Finnegan Fox, or just my general demeaner. I get like a excited puppy, or fox kit, I suppose.

Dragon noise is a funky one. I know the sound that Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon makes this low, purry cooing sound, and I find that one in specific to be something I should be able to do. Almost like a cat's purr. I vehemanly denies any sort of feline within my draconity though. Probably just a case of disliking the "meta" where dragons and cats are put in equivalent a lot. Beyond that, I don't think I make much sort of roar sound. Maybe growl or snarl.

The human voice box has its limitation to immitate the nonhuman sound. I do got my cooing purr down pat though. If you'd get to be in vc with me, I tend to speak in noises more than I do words. It's just easier. Probably a combination of ndness and nonhumanness.

The way I do it is

mouth in the shape as if I'm about to blow bubble

tongue close to the roof, but enough so air can pass through

push the air out. Not just breathing, but do it as if you are doing a vocal practice, and push the air out

adjust the tongue to roof distance as needed until you find the sweet spot that makes the air in your mouth vibrate

then add sound

I sort of learned that when I was a high school freshman. Someone amongst the classmate taught it to us, but only I picke it up fast and master it quicker. Could be my choir experience, could be the creature in me. I'd like to think that it's a combination.

The chirps and screech are just your regular throat really close, mouth open, tongue press up to close the throat, and do the same pushing air motion. Is it a motion if you aren't moving?

There are some cool vocalization that I'd heard folks do. My favorite one is probably Rani (@a-dragons-journal)'s. Still no idea how dre does it, that wobble wobble in the back of the throat sound. I couldn't immitate it.

Perhaps we as a community can collect everyone's voice technique and put together a tutorial. Even better yet, a video to present at a con panel.

[dkniade]

I understand there are different reasons why someone might talk to themselves and this poll’s options are limited, of course. Feel free to add on a reason if it’s not listed!

But I’m curious, because I don’t really personally know anyone (else) who does this in real life

[plural-culture-is]

Hi I’m a little confused about something and was wondering if you might know the answer?

Do you know if all systems experience auditory hallucinations? I can hear my headmates in my head but I don’t hear them in a way that I would think I was hearing them outside the headspace.

I’m very curious. :)

no, not all systems experience auditory hallucinations. but an auditory hallucination can include things that sound like they're coming from inside your head, different to thoughts (but in what way they're different, we're not sure, as someone who doesn't experience hallucinations)

[presswoodterryryan]

The Magic of Hearing: Inside the Human Ear

By Alice Hi friends! It’s me, Alice, and today, Ariel, Mr. Fluffernutter, and I are going on our tiniest adventure yet! Imagine shrinking down to the size of a dust particle and exploring a hidden world that no one ever gets to see up close. That’s exactly what happened when we found ourselves miniaturized and taking a fantastic journey inside a human ear! As we began our adventure, we marveled…

[gods-favorite-autistic]

Good evening if you are spoiling the Percy Jackson series for people who haven’t read the books on purpose you’re an asshole

[psychotic-system-culture-is]

Psychotic System Culture is...

"<current fronter>, stop swatting at nothing! It's not real, and your mother keeps staring at us like we're crazy!"

[daronmalakianofficial]

Lately I’ve been thinking about System of a Down’s Wake Up The Souls show in Yerevan, Armenia in 2015 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. Specifically this part of the show- "[Our governments] will only challenge genocide as a moral imperative when we force them"

As we see multiple genocides happening in the world today, make no mistake that it happens because genocide works the way it’s suppose to- to make citizens turn a blind eye in order for imperialist governments to continue to benefit from genocide.

It’s a cycle, and it’s one that won’t stop unless citizens make it stop. Those of us who aren’t currently being affected by modern genocide, we have no right to lose hope, especially when our governments are banking on the idea of us giving up on creating a world without genocide.

[Full concert]

[disabled-sysboxes]

[TEXT ID: this system experiences auditory hallucinations]

[IMG ID: a red rectangular box with a dark desaturated red outline with an icon of a person with multiple versions of themselves coming out from the back of them, each one becoming slightly more warped, with a question mark and exclamation point next to the top of their head to the left, and the text 'this system experiences auditory hallucinations' to the right.]

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