Lately I’ll be sitting around in a silent place, like reading in bed, and realize I am hearing this rhytymic thing and it turns out it is my own pulse. Is this weird?? Is something wrong with me?
It means your head is going to explode! Quick, you don’t have much time!
Seriously, it’s normal. I can hear my own pulse when I’m trying to sleep at night. I wouldn’t worry about it- unless, of course, some medical expert comes in here and tells us we’re both abnormal. Then we can start a support group or something.
I do sometimes. In a Lilly tank it was quite distracting. For a little while.
As a teenager, I learned how to slow my pulse rate through breathing exercises. Nothing mystical about it, simply deep, slow breathing focused in the abdomin rather than the chest. Kind of a cool thing, you can hear and the pulse and feel it strongly in parts of the body.
There was a downside. One time, after ingesting a certain substance, I got it in my head that I was consciously controlling my heartbeat and it would stop if I lost concentration on it. I was in that weird state where I knew the thought was false but I could not clear it from my brain. I ended up playing my guitar and watching The Godfather until 5 in the morning. Good times.
I usually can hear mine when I’m trying to sleep or when I have headphones on, but no music playing… in case anyone’s wondering why I’d have headphones on and not be listening to music… I plug my 'phones in the computer at night so I can still have sound and not disturb anyone…
I can’t hear my heartbeat, bu hubby can always hear his, and has always been able to.
I’ve noticed that I can the last week or so when I lay down to sleep.
I can, but only when I have earplugs on. They seem to create a cavernous echo in my body where all I can hear is my heartbeat and breathing.
If you really get your heart rate up in a quiet place (cross-country skiing in the back country, for example) the blood pumping in your temples can get really loud. First time I experienced it it freaked me out. WHOOSH! WHOOSH! It took me a while to figure out what it was, and realize that it wasn’t some predator following me in the trees.
I’ve always been able to… just find me a quiet place and I can hear (and feel) the blood pulsing through my veins.
I always thought it rather cool personally.
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- I can feel my heart/veins pulsing more often than I can hear it.
- Many people can hear their own hearts if they are quiet while in a recording studio however. The silence seems to climb in volume–you hear things there that you don’t ever hear anywhere else–, and then the loud silence instantly “fades away” whenever anything familiar makes a noise. Odd but true.
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Well, this is good because I was afraid something was wrong with me.
What about seeing your pulse? Is that bad? Sometimes if I’m not looking at anything in particular I can see these throbbing spots in time with my heartbeat.
Sometimes I can definitely hear and/or feel my pulse in my head without trying, even if it’s not that quiet. I attributed it to my migraines, but I guess not (unless all of you folks get migraines, too). When I have a migraine, every single pulse hurts like hell and is very loud.
I get this too, sometimes. So far, no problems (I’m not that old, though).
Going to bed at night, I can feel my pulse all over, especially in my hands and feet. If I lay on my hand, with my hand between the left of my chest and the bed, I can strongly feel my heart beating. I can also hear it if I don’t have my fan running (I usually run it so that my upstairs neighbors won’t wake me up).
After much exertion, I can easily hear my pulse. It makes a loud thudding noise somewhere behind my right ear (or left, I can’t remember which).