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Thunder in your head?

A long while back I was hanging out with one of my sisters and she said that she hears thunder in her head when she gets startled.

Me: "Scuse me. What?"
Her: "You know. That thunder you hear when someone startles you."
Me: "Again. What?"
Her: "You don't hear thunder when someone startles you?"
Me: "Uh, no."
Her: "Oh. I thought that happened to everybody."

Is this a thing? Does this happen to anybody else out there? She did struggle with depression for much of her life. Could that have had something to do with it?

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  • Every time my daughter cried as a baby my ears physically contracted internally and made a strange sound. For every, single, breath she cried.

    Was bizarre. However, my son a year earlier. Nothing like that at all.

    • Can confirm I've had the same experience with my daughter. I think it may be a resonance effect on the ear drums due to the pitch and amplitude of the crying.

    • That's weird. I've never heard of anything like that before.

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