Makes my Inner ear hurt.

Wow... from Wikipedia:

Williams had first attempted suicide in 1993 by hammering a knife into her chest; the knife lodged in her sternum and she changed her mind, calling Swenson to take her to hospital.[5] She attempted suicide again in 1997 with an overdose of ephedrine.[5]

Williams died at age 48 on April 6, 1998 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a wooded area near her home. Rod Swenson, who had been Wendy's significant other for more than twenty years, returned from shopping to the wooded area where the two had lived since moving to Connecticut from New York. He found a package that Wendy had left him with some special noodles he liked, a packet of seeds for growing garden greens, some oriental massage balm, and sealed letters from Wendy. The suicide letters which included a "living will" denying life support, a love letter to Swenson, and various lists of things to do set Swenson searching the woods looking for her. After about an hour, and after it was almost dark, he found the body in woods near an area where she loved to feed the wildlife. Several nut shells were on a nearby rock where she had apparently been feeding some of the squirrels before she died. Swenson checked the body for a pulse, and there was none. A pistol lay on the ground nearby, and he returned to the house to call the local authorities. "Wendy's act was not an irrational in-the-moment act," he said, she had been talking about taking her own life for almost four years. Swenson reportedly described her as "despondent" at the time of her suicide.[13] This is what she is said to have written[14] in a suicide note regarding her decision:
“ I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. I do believe strongly, however, that the right to do so is one of the most fundamental rights that anyone in a free society should have. For me, much of the world makes no sense, but my feelings about what I am doing ring loud and clear to an inner ear and a place where there is no self, only calm.

...and fix that inner ear infection.

At a guess I would put it down to this .

one of the main ways we know we are going left or right when blind folded and with no other stimuli would be by using inner ear ,

the inner ear probably lacks a calibration centre point or awareness of when it is in a central aligned posistoin and relies on the eyes or other senses for it to be calibrated as its centre point.

what happens is the inner ear sensing changes due to general movement or variations in persons leaning , vibrations or lateral Gs. however because it has no resting point or definitive centre the person percives it that they need to compensate and as a result ends up moving arounf in cercals ,

the cercals get tighter and tighter as the persons perception of the inner ear remains off and they keep turning extra to compensate.

Bullshit.

Drugs? It is not a drug. A drug is a substance that is absorbed into the body.

Where's the goddamn science on this? This is a lot of bullshit, rampant stupidity abounds in the US.

It's just fucking sounds. Any sounds can fuck up your inner ear, hearing and sense of balance. Drugs? Bullshit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug

>> ^KnivesOut:

It seems like you'd be able to feel all that liquid sloshing around in your head.
Awesome convo though, I'll be back with powerpoints to promote this asap.


Ugh, I forgot about that. You do feel it, at least I did for a couple weeks after my surgery. Depending on whether I was sitting up or lying down on my side or whatever, I could feel (and hear, because it's happening near enough to the inner ear I suppose ) the fluid sort of moving from one place to the other, even in my neck area because the spinal fluid is all part of the same volume. Luckily the worst of it went away pretty quickly, presumably because the dent in the brain rebounded and built up pressure in the system again.

I think he has an inner ear problem!

I think he has an inner ear problem!

"inner ear disabling dove shitting medical disorder"

He doesn't need a beer, he needs an inner ear.

When I was younger I spent a few days at The Maze in Southern Utah. After slipping and nearly going over the edge I never was the same about heights. Roped I was pretty good, but without some sort of belay I just froze.

One and a half years ago my vestibular system was poisoned by prescription drugs. I now have no inner ear gyroscope, so to speak. I guess I'll never be able to climb again, but I can dream.

This was truly awesome.

This is very melodramatic. IS HE INSANE? Psh. That's silly. You know how penguins have a "sense of direction" that tells them which way the ocean is? Well, the poor little guys is just disoriented. Maybe his ocean-detector is broken. Maybe he has an inner ear infection. But I doubt he's "deranged."

It is from the 80s. She was a doozie, but I'm sure hyped. Tragically, she was a suicide.
According to Wiki, her last note read;
"I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. I do believe strongly, however, that the right to do so is one of the most fundamental rights that anyone in a free society should have. For me much of the world makes no sense, but my feelings about what I am doing ring loud and clear to an inner ear and a place where there is no self, only calm."

Sounds like an intelligent soul there. Really sad.

Oy. Last joke I post for a while. But for future reference, could we all please post the subjects that offend us so we know what's not allowed.

I'll start. I'm a white, American male from Texas. So no jokes about white people, Americans, men, or Texans/Texas. I'm tall and slightly overweight so no tall jokes or fat jokes (or jokes about food in general - I'm very sensitive about my weight). I speak English - so no jokes in English (that's a joke - sorry if I offended anyone). I'm a husband, a son, a brother, and a father - so all husband/wife/father/son/daughter/brother/mother jokes are completely out of bounds (and let's add in-laws - which is really too bad because mine visited over the holidays and I have a doozy!). And being a husband means I'm in a relationship - so no relationship jokes. I have an inner-ear condition so all jokes about people getting dizzy or falling down are not allowed. I've had sex in the past 12 months - so no sex jokes. I'm into politics, video games, and sports - so don't even think about joking about those. I'm also am a member and frequent this sight - so no Videosift jokes. I'm obviously a very funny person and love jokes so no jokes about jokes.

Hmm... that's really all I can think of right now. Who's next?

[Actually I just thought of one. I obviously posted this message so no joking about it. OK? I'm not joking.]

"So is that damaging to your ears? Or do only high pitched sounds do significant damage?"

Damage to your (inner) ear occurs when enough energy is transferred to your hair cells, causing them to break.

A loud low sound like in this video has a low frequency (pitch) and a high amplitude (volume). As sound is just a displacement of air, at low enough frequencies with high amplitude it would basically just be a gust of wind (as you can clearly see).
The energy in a wave depends on its frequency and amplitude, imagine the hairs just swaying about 1 time per second..no big deal.
  15000 times per second however, all the while swaying just as far, the stress would cause them to break.
High-energetic waves have the potential to do more damage, just think of visible light ("low" frequency) and x-rays (high frequency). Even ultraviolet light, which is just beyond the visible light in frequency, can cause skin cancer.

A low sound that blows your hair about won't damage your inner ear.
Lower sounds could theoretically kill the hairs but your eardrum would sooner rupture..ouch?
The basic rule probably should be, if it hurts turn down your volume down to about 30% of that volume : S long term higher frequency exposure is a bitch.