Science (and twitter) has discovered that a small amount of people can make a “rumbling sound” in their ears.
It’s done by contracting the tensor typani muscle inside your ear, and it creates a rumbling sound. Personally, I’ve always been able to do this but it’s apparently quite uncommon which came as a surprise to me as it did other people. Let us know below if you’re an “ear rumbler”. A twitter post gained traction talking about the “sh*tty superpower” with people discovering they can do it, and other just becoming confused.
A part of the human population can voluntarily control the tensor tympani, a muscle within the ear. Contracting this muscle produces vibration and sound. The sound is usually described as a rumbling sound https://t.co/FjD36qFACU pic.twitter.com/ianKb60EK8
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) February 17, 2020
“A part of the human population can voluntarily control the tensor tympani, a muscle within the ear,” Massimo wrote on Twitter. “Contracting this muscle produces vibration and sound. The sound is usually described as a rumbling sound.”
If you want to try and make the sound, if you can’t already, try scrunching up your eyes and face and listen out for a rumble in your ears. Make sure no one is around though as you may look like you’ve lost the plot.
“To me it sounds like when there’s a big thunderstorm,” one Twitter commenter wrote. “The thunder is just lowly rolling around in the sky forever with only tiny flashes of lightning that don’t leave the clouds.”
