Mattea Sarpa.
"Eyeballs sound like creaking doors, eyelids opening and closing have a scratchy sound, bones and joints creak."
This is what's known to psychology as hypersensitive hearing. A very rare condition, in fact so rare that no one in her environment even knew about it. She was born "normal", but suffered from a skull fracture above her ear after a car accident. This hairline fracture amplifies the vibrations in the head and ultimately increases the loudness/pitch of a sound.
What I find fascinating is that she can hear pain. Apparently her shoulder makes a sound when it pains, or just before a fire alarm goes off, the fire alarm will give off a tiny click sound, which she picked up too and warned her husband, who obviously didn't believe her.
I'm just wondering what this would mean for her hearing in the future?! One can only hear because of the fine hair in the cochlea (correct me if I'm wrong) and the more intense the vibrations (creating louder sounds), the quicker the hair breaks off. So technically, she should become deaf a lot sooner than the rest of us??!!
When I heard about her in my lecture this morning, I was quite stunned, because really I have enough on my plate already with my super duper nose, I don't need super duper hearing :P.
for more info:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/helthrpt/stories/s1465091.htm
[Tune]
Can you hear it ? Na me neither ... *CHEESYYYY*
"Eyeballs sound like creaking doors, eyelids opening and closing have a scratchy sound, bones and joints creak."
This is what's known to psychology as hypersensitive hearing. A very rare condition, in fact so rare that no one in her environment even knew about it. She was born "normal", but suffered from a skull fracture above her ear after a car accident. This hairline fracture amplifies the vibrations in the head and ultimately increases the loudness/pitch of a sound.
What I find fascinating is that she can hear pain. Apparently her shoulder makes a sound when it pains, or just before a fire alarm goes off, the fire alarm will give off a tiny click sound, which she picked up too and warned her husband, who obviously didn't believe her.
I'm just wondering what this would mean for her hearing in the future?! One can only hear because of the fine hair in the cochlea (correct me if I'm wrong) and the more intense the vibrations (creating louder sounds), the quicker the hair breaks off. So technically, she should become deaf a lot sooner than the rest of us??!!
When I heard about her in my lecture this morning, I was quite stunned, because really I have enough on my plate already with my super duper nose, I don't need super duper hearing :P.
for more info:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/helthrpt/stories/s1465091.htm
[Tune]
Can you hear it ? Na me neither ... *CHEESYYYY*
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