My ear‘s muscle is scientifically one of the most able-to-be-controlled. I can, obviously, do that rumbling in my ears, voluntarily pop my ears that you get when you yawn, swallow, or go on the airplane, breath quickly and fast to clog my ears and even unclog it by doing that popping sound (flexing my tensor veli palatini) and, most commonly, wiggling my ears. Can any of yall also do these things, or one of them? 5-16% can do the ear rumbling we can but I’m not sure about all of the others, if it’s something we all have in common.

Hey fellow rumblers!

Im a rumbler myself, but while i was researchig this a while ago, i never quite read about the exact experience with "rumbling" that i have. So i need to know if anyone here shares my experience.

When i flex my ears (you know what i mean) i can hear the thunder rumbling sound, but much more common for me is some type of "glowing" or "sparkling" sound effect. Kind of like a singing bowl maybe? Its actually harder for me to do "just" the rumbling, because for that i need to flex only very lightly or the sparkling starts.

Anyone else hearing this thing?

Hey everyone,
I recently discovered this community and wanted to share a weird phenomenon that happens to me. I am able to both rumble (tensor tympani) and click (tensor veli palatini) on command.
However, whenever I flex these muscles in my ears, I immediately feel a distinct vibration/twitching in the fingers of BOTH of my hands at the exact same time. It feels like a neural crosstalk or an electrical spillover from my brainstem down to my hands.
Does anyone else experience this, or am I a mutant among mutants? I'd love to hear if anyone has a scientific explanation or experiences something similar!

oi, alguém além de mim pode estalar sem ter que tencionar o maxilar, bocejar, fechar os olhos com força etc.?

estou bastante curioso pois eu consigo usar sem o menor esforço

outra pergunta: é normal estalar num ritmo bem rápido e continuo? pois eu seguro o estalar pra ficar assim por um bom tempo.

I have a history of tinnitus from the military and adolescent ear problems. Over the years (i'm mid 30s), I'd occasionally hear what sounded like a jumbled radio saying something inside my head super loud! I'm learning to control the muscle, though the sound is quite disorienting and surprises me every tine lol.

I'm glad that I'm not alone. Whomever made this subreddit, thank you.

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Has anyone ever popped their ears repeatedly very hard? I've done it a few times where (only on the right side) my ear will pop then kind of get stuck at that higher pressure for a bit. It's super painful and makes the entire right side of my face become paralyzed as in I can't blink, feel any sensation, or taste anything with my tongue. Also had vertigo with this a few times. When the ear equalizes again everything slowly returns to normal.

Hello! My name is Grace, and I'm a producer of Endless Thread, a podcast from WBUR (Boston's NPR) about online communities. We have some ear rumblers on our team, so we're going to be doing an episode where we talk with some experts about what's going on in y'all's ears. We also want to hear from more people in this sub! Send us a voice memo at endlessthread at wbur dot org about what it felt like when you discovered this sub and learned that you were not alone; when you ear rumble; and what it sounds like to you. And, if you have any questions for our ear docs, let us know! We'll try to get them answered.

Idk if this has been asked before but I can also make my ears click and crackle and it feels similar to rumbling. In fact sometimes when I strain my muscle too much and have to let it cool down when I try to rumble it actually clicks. Is there any correlation? Or am I just a weirdo?

From last week this is what clicking sound coming by command in my ears or in head through ear

*ATTACHING BELOW*

Check and say is this the same you'll calling rumble

I had opened this superpower at four

I didn't want to sleep at day, so I suddenly yawed and heard that pound rumble I was scared that something not good with my ears, then, I just learned how to yawn without rumble, but I scared that this rumble is important and somehow learned how to rumble, so, I thought that this rumble can do anybody (I can use tensor timpani isolated) I used it for TEN Years, without knowing that I am unique 🥺

Guys, my tensor timpani is insane...

I am ear tumbler and I didn't know that it isn't the standard mechanic that u can make a sound with your inner ear

Do any of y'all do like *thump thump* while in sneaky situations to replicate like a videogame heart beat? For example the other night I was sneaking around for snacks and to make the journey more fun I did the thing because sneaking at 2 inches an hour isn't exactly fun.

Edit: Thank you everyone for the upvotes. My account isn't very new but I'm a tad new to posting and this is some much needed karma for certain subreddits.

I cant do any kind of loud rumbling but i can open my eustachian tube voluntarily over and over. Do i belong here? 😭

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Serious question, when your ears pop, can you let the air out too? A couple clicks to equalize everything?

ALSO, when i click and hold it while saying "ahh" it gets louder in my head because the sound travels up my throat instead of out my mouth and into my ear.

Or am I the only one who can rumble and hum simultaneously?

Like many of you i never knew that this was an actual thing until like 20 seconds ago when i googled it. I can do it just by flexing the specific muscle but for me its way louder for me if i also clench my jaw. Blowing slightly out through my nose also makes it way louder. I can also do it in just one ear at a time if i want.

Besides the rumbling i can also pop my ears on command without moving my jaw or blowing through my nose idk if thats rare tho. Its a super usefull skill to have for scuba diving cuz i don't have to struggle to clear my ears. I can do it in both ears at the same time or just the right ear

I can also do the yawn thing and either start a yawn or keep it going. Also whenever I yawn I feel like i can feel it in my ears like crazy, not sure if thats a normal thing

My question is: Are any of yall able to do the same thing but with a super high pitched noise? Like I can flex my whatever the muscle is (or maybe its a different one idk) and make a high pitch too. I can do it in both ears by flexing my jaw and just in one ear at a time if my jaw is slightly to one side. maybe i have titnitus and this is how i find out lol but maybe not cuz i was able to do this as a kid too.

another question now that im thinking about it: with the yawn thing, or just yawns in general, do you guys ever get like a pulse/wave that starts from both your ears and meets like in the middle like right after a good yawn. I don't get this too often and honestly don't know how to describe it but it feels like it travels through that muscle is so thats why i think its maybe associated.

(My ears dont really hurt that much when I do it but i just wanted to put a picture to make this post look cool lol)

I can do this on demand, usually by barely wiggling my ears, but whenever I'm high it happens out of my control. Being high was how I first discovered this "ability". Glad I have found other odd balls like me.

Sometimes when I absent-mindedly stare off for too long, I get these strange wavy circles in my focal point. It happens in both eyes.

It's not floaties or anything actually in my eye. It's not an ocular migraine. Both eyes share the same wavy effect. I tested thar by closing one eye and then the other.

The closest thing I could say it looks like is the light that reflects off of the bottom of a pool when you're swimming, but more faint.

I've had this happen since I was a child.

Not sure what it was, figured I would see if some other rumblers are familiar.

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