After my shower this morning - and now that I’m thinking about it, this may even have started yesterday evening - I noticed a strange sensation in my ear when noises of a certain pitch are in the air.

It’s all bass. So, for example, when the tractor-trailer pulled down the alley behind our house, it made the usual rumbling noise. Not only did the house react as it usually does (vibrating a little), but my left ear started to feel like there was a drastic pressure change in the air.

Pat had mentioned before how he had attended a seminar or read something somewhere about how sound is actually just wave-like changes in air pressure. If you were to move very rapidly from 100ft to 10,000ft altitude, you would hear a really, really loud noise. Probably make your ears explode, actually.

So has my ear simply become more sensitive to bass all of a sudden? Or have I lost hearing in other tonal ranges because of an inflammation in my ear? I haven’t noticed, yet. Maybe I should listen to some music and find out.

Hearing cars zooming by that are hundreds of feet away is both amusing and disturbing.