Comments on: The Sound of the Aurora

By: jarvisloop

jarvisloop — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 21:51:28 +0000

Note to self: Finished.

By: Anonymousx2

Anonymousx2 — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 00:26:14 +0000

Just checking in – after 11.5 years.

By: NelsonA

NelsonA — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 08:20:57 +0000

Scientists have only just now recorded these sounds and know there are a real auditory phenomenon. However, they still don’t know what the mechanism is that causes it.

By: Kraplotnik

Kraplotnik — Wed, 27 May 2015 12:19:52 +0000

As of 2012 the sounds have been recorded in Finland and proven to exist. So to all you doubters saying “all in your head” etc; eat your hearts out :) -me personally have heard the northern lights on 2 occations, so no surprises here.

By: suprlite

suprlite — Tue, 26 May 2015 12:11:18 +0000

Just like martyrum did, i also had to register here to all you “all in the head”-ignorants here..
The nay-sayers in the “all in your head, this is probably due to imagination” camp can just pack up their things and move over to the “northern light sounds is real” camp.
Living in the northern part of Norway i have heard the sound crystal clear and without a doubt to wheter it was real. 25 years ago i witnessed the most spectacular big multicolored aurora borealis i have ever seen and just stood there in awe, mesmerized by its beauty. And the sound was in sync with the light. With big movements in the light, the hissing sound was louder and more intense. Mind you i was with a friend who also heard the sound just as clear as i did. We stood there for about half an hour or so before we decided to move on, and the sound was still there when we moved on, not watching the skies. It was not crumbling snow, powerlines or anything else that has been speculated on here.It was the northern light making the sounds, just as sure as you are reading these letters. The conditions were clear skies and minus 20-25 degrees celsius. An unforgetable and beautiful audiovisual display that i will never forget. And by the way DI; now that the aurora-sounds have in fact been recorded in Finland i would strongly suggest that you update the article…

By: dmitri k

dmitri k — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 15:55:14 +0000

i collected from cia materials books where they printed about auro
border inside where magnetic field that blocks from inside
they sure want to deliver outside sounds
who is they we should reserve trips

By: LAS

LAS — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:12:19 +0000

It’s real. In the early spring of 2004, I was out for a late night jog in western Montana, near a small town but not in it. The only sounds were me and my feet. At some point I looked up and noticed moving stringy green curtains of a remarkably strong aurora borealis. Before that point, I had only managed to see faint glowing of red and blue in the winter, but nothing like this. Some time later, probably within 15 minutes, I stopped jogging and walked for a while, trying to figure out the origin of a very low pitch, very rhythmic thrumming every couple of seconds. I looked up again to the north sky and although the curtains were gone, the sky was glowing strongly, more towards the farthest north than directly overhead. There were east-west bands of green moving from the north to directly overhead before disappearing, exactly in time to the thrumming. In fact, there was no delay from the beginning of a new band beginning to run and the beginning of the sound. I watched it for maybe 15 or 20 minutes like that, until I could no longer hear the sound, and the northern sky faded to a very faint glow. I made it to my dad’s house and woke him up to see- not an easy thing to do. There were still very faint traveling bands of glow still, and he did see them. I was completely skeptical of what I had thought I had heard until reading an article perhaps a few months later.

To me, they were as real as anything, and I did notice these sounds before actually noticing the bands of light or any other subconscious clue that might have contributed to a perception issue. I think what I perceived was as real as rain, but what caused it is anyone’s guess- either real sound or some sort of direct stimulation. In seeing dozens of northern light episodes since then, I have not heard this phenomena again despite trying.

By: Anthropositor

Anthropositor — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:37:00 +0000

This is an interesting puzzle that relates to some other things I am familiar with. Early in the twentieth century, in the infancy of radio, there were numerous credible reports of people hearing radio broadcasts in their heads, without benefit of a receiver. One reasonable speculation, since this phenomenon was uncommon, is that it had to do perhaps with the unusual combinations or shapes of metal fillings in the teeth, resonating to the signals.

And sometimes the broadcasts were also heard in the proximity of barbed wire fences, lending at least some support for the idea about fillings. It may have had something to do with some of the extremely strong signals being broadcast during this very experimental period.

But perhaps, with regard to the auroral sound, some other things may be playing a part. Synesthesia is an unusual overlapping of the senses that is quite interesting, and sometimes disturbing when it happens to you. Sometimes it is interpreted as hallucination. It is not.

But the second possibility does relate to hallucination. We have a strong inclination to “fill in the blanks” when our senses do not supply us with enough input to provide us with the sort of satisfyingly complete picture we wish. If we deliberately put ourselves in positions limiting the input of our senses to the maximum extent possible, while still retaining alert consciousness, we will hallucinate in very short order. This is not an entirely foolproof practice.

If we observe an aurora, we are getting far less sensory input than most of us are used to. We may, without realizing it, be filling in the gaps, trying to make the picture more familiar and complex.

By: lelelouise

lelelouise — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:54:12 +0000

[quote]kittykactus said: “Wow, DI!

Shall keep in mind when I next see an aurora.

Maybe my glasses and expander will exacerbate my hearing.”[/quote]

u r so rite!

By: lelelouise

lelelouise — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:45:05 +0000

I was wondoring, what 3 good effects of gravity are there? at school we are studying science: gravity, friction, forces etc. please help me. Our techer makes us write one spelling 20 times if we get it wrong. I don’t want to know what she could do if we gt a question wrong inn SCIENCE! Please help me!!!