Thread: Does Everyone Do this?

You guys are hilarious. Sometimes it still surprises me how little people know about their own bodies. There should be a preschool class or something that is designed to help children explore their various muscles and psychophysiological sensations. I've only gotten to know mine much better within the last several years, and it is really fascinating...but it's also funny to see people getting excited about stuff like this. I do it too. Especially when I can sense specific brainwave frequencies or can follow a single nerve impulse through a specific neural network. It's all about quieting the conscious mind and listening to the body.

I can do this easily. I thought everyone can do it ?

I get this sound in my head when I yawn. Seems like a pretty common phenomenon to me.

I can't remember what I was trying to do (probably a lame attempt at ear-wiggling) that first made me aware of the effect, but I've been doing that ever since I was little. I thought it was something weird that only happened to me, since I had made a couple attempts to explain it, and nobody ever understood what I was talking about.

I can definetly do the wind rushing thing.
I do it by flexing a mucell inside the ear. It helps to close the eyes and and yawn. with your mouth open try and stretch the sides apart by moving your jaw.

Originally Posted by Aldar13

A small percentage of the population can actually voluntarily contract this muscle"

The large number of replies claiming they can do it too have made me question whether the ability is so rare.

Originally Posted by Dianeva

The large number of replies claiming they can do it too have made me question whether the ability is so rare.

Unless there's just some weird correlation between people who are interested in lucid dreaming and people who can do the windy-ear-thing.

Or most of the people who are interested in talking about the phenomenon are the ones who have actually experienced it.

For me, it feels similar to the sound you get from a really good yawn.

And then it all made sense. It's that rumbling feel when you move your ears up a bit isn't it? It doesn't really help me suppress sounds though, as some described.

Dianeva if you really want to show that just tensing the muscles can make you faint do it while breathing. Holding your breath will cause you to faint no matter what you are doing.

And after reading what robot said about it being like a good yawn I realized I have experienced this while yawning. My best guess as to what this is.... I think it's just your jaw muscles flexing distorting your hearing making it seem like wind is rushin in your head.

I can do this, though it's easier to make it happen if I scrunch my face up or yawn..

I think it's just your jaw muscles flexing distorting your hearing making it seem like wind is rushin in your head.

Obviously not if you can do it without clenching your jaw.

Yeah, it's not your jaw muscles. It's another muscle group.

I'm getting confused, because i can make two different things with that muscle. The first i use it when i have clogged ears and it feels like air going through my ears, and the other souns like a bzzzz and also happens when i yawn extremely And if i mix both i can clogg/unclogg my ears whenever i want.

PS: Never fainted by doing this

I can do this too. I can do that with my eyes open and without yawning for a minute, but it gives me headaches if I do this for more than 10 seconds. Its nice to do this while imagining the sea, it gives a good sensation... Never fainted by doing that.

Originally Posted by Zebrah

Dianeva if you really want to show that just tensing the muscles can make you faint do it while breathing. Holding your breath will cause you to faint no matter what you are doing.

It's impossible to do it while breathing, I think because it involves my lungs. It seems like a combination of muscles from my head and lungs. I'm not saying that just tensing any muscles will make me faint. I'm saying whatever I'm specifically doing will make me faint. I might be cutting off blood off from my brain, or pushing it into my brain. It feels like the latter, because I get a feeling like my brain is swelling. I suspect it's something like this, but don't know.

I don't know why everyone who's responded to my claim continues to insist that I simply am holding my breath, and that it's nothing more than that. I've refuted that already, and my refutation seems to be ignored. I can hold my breath for over a minute while feeling only a bit light headed, but I only have to do this muscle contraction thing for about 6 seconds to faint, feeling very light headed after only about 3 seconds. When's the last time you saw someone faint from merely holding their breath for 6 seconds? Millions of people would have died from holding their breath underwater while swimming if that were the case. If someone is hypothesizing that it involves holding my breath, that's fine. But if that's true, it obviously involves something extra as well which has to do with the feeling of contracting my muscles, for the reason I've described in bold and won't explain again.

i can do the wind thing for sure, But It doesn't make me feel light headed. it is easier to do while holding my breath but I can do it while breathing in. I don't think I can hold it for more than about 3 seconds though. It just sort of fades away.

I can do it too, it seems to be controlled from the ears and I hear a wooshing noise, like as said, a powerful wind. I used to do it in boring assemblies when I was younger, like first school, but then got scared that other people could hear it cos it seemed so loud to me... I can also wobble my eyes really fast from side to side, just thought I'd mention this as we all seem to be mentioning stuff we can do with our bodies...

Originally Posted by Dreamdreamdream17

I can also wobble my eyes really fast from side to side, just thought I'd mention this as we all seem to be mentioning stuff we can do with our bodies...

Lol I can do that too. I used to have eye-wobbling contests with my friend back in elementary school and we'd see who ran out of 'gas' first.

Originally Posted by Aquanina

Especially when I can sense specific brainwave frequencies or can follow a single nerve impulse through a specific neural network. It's all about quieting the conscious mind and listening to the body.

Mind elaborating? Sounds cool. .-.

Originally Posted by Telemachus

I can produce exactly the effect Gavin described, not sure if that's what everyone else is talking about. I find it's much easier to do when my eyes are closed, but I can trigger it at almost any time.

I was scouring my recent posts via profile and getting increasingly annoyed because I couldn't figure out where that "thanks" came from. Glad I finally did.

Originally Posted by Dianeva

It's impossible to do it while breathing, I think because it involves my lungs. It seems like a combination of muscles from my head and lungs. I'm not saying that just tensing any muscles will make me faint. I'm saying whatever I'm specifically doing will make me faint. I might be cutting off blood off from my brain, or pushing it into my brain. It feels like the latter, because I get a feeling like my brain is swelling. I suspect it's something like this, but don't know.

I don't know why everyone who's responded to my claim continues to insist that I simply am holding my breath, and that it's nothing more than that. I've refuted that already, and my refutation seems to be ignored. I can hold my breath for over a minute while feeling only a bit light headed, but I only have to do this muscle contraction thing for about 6 seconds to faint, feeling very light headed after only about 3 seconds. When's the last time you saw someone faint from merely holding their breath for 6 seconds? Millions of people would have died from holding their breath underwater while swimming if that were the case. If someone is hypothesizing that it involves holding my breath, that's fine. But if that's true, it obviously involves something extra as well which has to do with the feeling of contracting my muscles, for the reason I've described in bold and won't explain again.

Try not to hold you breath for so long, that way you wont faint. What? I'm not funny, you say? Guess you're right. :[

I can't do it while breathing either. Btw, has anyone noticed you can kinda play with the pitch (not sure if that's the right word) and create weird ear-music? =P

Ha. Take some mdma...then we'll talk about really crazy and uncontrollable eye wobbles. It's crazy the sort of things you can do with your body on certain substances. For example, I can tell my brain not to combine the two images from each eyeball into one, so that I'm seeing two separate slightly different images. I can even get my eyeballs to look in opposite directions. Just barely though...so that there is about a 2-3 inch space between the two separate images.

To illustrate what I'm talking about...

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Split screen


Looking in opposite directions (basically the complete opposite of crossing your eyes)


I try not to do it often though, because I get the feeling it's probably not very good for the eyes? It's fun to play around with stuff like this though. Natural curiosity is a good thing, but you know what they say.

Originally Posted by Aquanina

Ha. Take some mdma...then we'll talk about really crazy and uncontrollable eye wobbles.

I took a triple stack of MDMA at a rave once. I didn't notice any eye wobbles, but I did have the horrible urge of making out with other guys.

Needless to say I've been drug free ever since.

Originally Posted by aktw4

You were holding your breath.

That's part of it, but there's more to this

There was a guy I knew in band that can do what the OP was describing. It's a building pressure feeling, plus causing your face to turn red. I can do that as well, but have never done it to the point of fainting

Originally Posted by aktw4

You can't stop all hearing, you must admit you can hear faint sounds?

Sometimes my hearing will block out all sounds except a ringing. Not tinnitus, it's just something that come up for no reason, and lasts for about 2-3secs.

How much ear ringing constitutes tinnitus? My ears always seem to have a faint ringing

Originally Posted by GavinGill

I'm not sure if it's the same thing you're talking about but when I close my eyes and flex to make my ears move up a bit, I hear/feel something similar to a breeze.

Ear wiggling/ tensing doesn't do it for me

Originally Posted by MindGames

I get this sound in my head when I yawn. Seems like a pretty common phenomenon to me.

OHH, now I know what y'all are talking about! When I yawn, I usually breath in and out and get the rushing sound

Originally Posted by Blacklight

Obviously not if you can do it without clenching your jaw.

I can tense up my jaw muscles without clenching

Originally Posted by Aquanina

Ha. Take some mdma...then we'll talk about really crazy and uncontrollable eye wobbles. It's crazy the sort of things you can do with your body on certain substances. For example, I can tell my brain not to combine the two images from each eyeball into one, so that I'm seeing two separate slightly different images. I can even get my eyeballs to look in opposite directions. Just barely though...so that there is about a 2-3 inch space between the two separate images.
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Split screen
Looking in opposite directions (basically the complete opposite of crossing your eyes)

I can kind of do it by refocusing my eyes

Ok, I'm not sure if I'm doing it right, but when I yawn, it causes my ears- what I've always described- to pop. I can also tense the muscle to pop my ears when I'm in the mountains and changing in elevation (releaving the pressure on my eardrums) and can also do the same underwater. It must have something to do with the air pressure in the ear canal as I seem to be equalizing the pressure in my aforementioned examples. I can do this, then breathe in or out, and create that rushing sound

Originally Posted by MindGames

Lol I can do that too. I used to have eye-wobbling contests with my friend back in elementary school and we'd see who ran out of 'gas' first.

Maybe we should have a competition then... GO!