r/earrumblersassemble

I rumbled my ears to silently communicate to a comrade, and the still-ear kind didn’t even know it. Fools! But I have to live among still-ear society…how can I fit into their society, before the uprising? I have to appear less superior, no?

Also, secret code:
👂👂🫨 = All hail the ear rumblers!
👂💥 = Are you one of us?
👂👂👂🫨 = I’m rumbling my ears
👂👂👾 = Evil laugh
👀👂 = Eye-shaker alliance
👂👽 = Yes
👂🫪 = No
👂🙉 = Oh no!
👂❗️= What?!
👂💛 = Thank you
👂✋ = Hilarious
👂👂👂👂👂 = Me too!
👂👤🎈= Only left ear rumbles
👂👤🌮 = Only right ear rumbles
👂👂🫂 = Can rumble both ears
👂🚨 = Abort mission

I wonder if such an ability is linked to potential hearing damage as a kid?! I am partially deaf in one ear and many ears of treatment so ensure I did not lose more of my hearing. I have always been able to do this though. Do any of you also have hearing loss?

Hi, just found out this subreddit exists so I just wanted to share my experience.

I live in a very mountainous region and my family has some pineries (as in pine wood) here. Since I was little I've been "helping" my father check if the trees were in good shape. That meant a lot of going up and down mountains, so, my ears would get clogged due to air pressure changes.

I vividly remember my father saying: "Just try raising both your brows real hard while you push your cheeks up. You will hear a rumbling in your ears and that will unclog them."

Basically I "learnt" how to do the rumbling thingy. I've always thought it is something you learn, like whistling.

However now I'm reading people can't do it?

Did you guys learn to do it or did you discover your could do it?

Just discovered to be one of YOU 🫶🏼
I always wondered if others can hear when I do rumble 😂

I found this sub yesterday, and will be scouring the [post hitory, but wanted a fresh perspective.

I'm 48m and for several years I've experienced almost overwhelming tightness in my face and neck, particularly when I lay on my back to sleep.

It seems to be correlated with the ear rumbling as well as an increase in the severity of my tinnitus.

I have tried magnesium supplements, electrolyte drinks, trauma therapy, psychedelic therapy, and more. I am currently trying another elimination diet, reducing as much caffeine and dairy as I can.

My doctor has not been able to provide any leads. I currently am prescribed 30mg/day of Vyvanse for ADHD. I am also Autistic.

If anyone else has experienced this, were you able to identify what was causing it? I am kind of losing my mind here.

I, to this day, thought that everyone could manually control their soft palate, pop their ears without using their lungs, and manually control their tensor tympani (the muscle that makes the rumble). I AM SHOCKED. I mean, I got no singing or diving training but apperantly people spend months to learn to control these things. Although I am a casual swimmer/diver. That explains why people look at me weird when I say "just lock your nose" before diving.

Came here from r/all, I never knew this was a thing and I definitely can't do it. I feel like even when I yawn I don't really hear a rumble or anything.

Does anyone have an audio or video of what this sounds like?

I've had the ability to rumble all of my life, didn't know it was a rare thing until now. Doing it now, I realise I can only do it for up to two seconds max before presumably the muscles relax and it stops. Is this normal for everyone else or are you meant to be able to go for a lot longer?

[Edit - VTO = Voluntary Tubal Opening, a way to equalise your eara without pinching your nose or blowing, etc, just by using the internal muscles to pull your estachion tubes open]

For me it's like the muscle next to the rumble muscle (next to the click/crackle muscle). I used to practice the rumble when I was a kid, and mines like overdeveloped or something. I could VTO inverted, upright, however wherever on day 1 of training without any coaching.

I'm super curious if this is common among ear rumblers.

I can rumble my ears but also do a different thing where I can make this kind of clicky bubble wrap popping sound but never described it properly to anyone. I’ve felt maybe I’m moving hairs or my ear drum slightly? Anyone else?

And do your damn kegels.

I just learnt about this subreddit. I've always been able to do that sound by tightening your calp and ears backwards? I am able to move my calp voluntarily and I wonder if these two are related

Hello fellow ear rumblers! I have super sensitive ears and my rumbling often helps soothe the pain. I wonder if there’s any correlation with other ear problems. Anyone else have other ear weirdness (weardness?)

i used to have bad health anxiety for the last 5-6 years, with anxiety, paranoia and panic attacks. only started getting out of it in the last year. it didn't really dawn on me until recently how bad i've had it.

i would have a lot of muscle twitching all around my body, and it sometimes felt like my heart jumped or skipped a beat. i always got super anxious about my heart, and had a very strong fear of dying, and every time it happened i would check my heartbeat immediately, anywhere i could find it, just to check that i was okay.

i've always been able to rumble my ears, with very good control on my left ear in particular, and i'm able to finely tune the amount of rumble.

and one night, i found that if i strained my ear juuust up to the point right before rumbling started, and relaxed everything else around my ear, my heartbeat would "push it over the edge" and rumble. so i could listen to my heartbeat through the rumbling without having to check any veins or my chest with my hands.

this led to me using this constantly to check that my heartbeat was still there. first only at night or when it was silent, but as the days went by, i started having it up all the time, while working, during conversations, while watching movies, or especially at the cinema or similar settings.

at its worst, i had 24/7 hands-free heartbeat monitoring going via the rumbling. my existence was reduced to thinking about dying, being afraid of dying, and listening to the rumbling.

i've since gotten much better, but still catch myself subconsciously checking every now and then.

I can produce this effect for myself on demand always. Sometimes, usually after exercise, it happens uncontrollably in spasms maybe 5 sec on 5 sec off. Anyone else?

I can make two distinct sounds in my ears. If I do it very lightly I hear a crackling but if I do it harder I get the rumbling. Anyone else?