OT: Re: sounds in your head [another view of tinitus]

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kevin said:
>What I always found most interesting in meditation were those moments when
>I would
>be jolted by the sound of very loud gong-like tones.  They sounded 
>identical
>to
>'real' sounds out in the world but they came only from inside my head.
and:
crickets? the snapping of bamboo reeds?

>It always struck me as an example of the brain/mind's power to recreate
>sensorially 'real' experiences with no external stimulus (much like 
dreaming).
some folks even say that the division 'tween external/internal is 
fabricated, 
anyway.....
that 'life is but a dream', as it were.....

> If only I could tap THAT as my primary instrument :-)
genau, dude.
best,
dt / s-c