Ears and hearing

Dreaming about ringing or tinnitus

What does it mean to dream about a ringing sound?

Reported, and where somebody has tinnitus awake, it appears in dreams, which is an ordinary and clean continuity effect.

That is worth stating because it is a case where the dream is reporting something entirely real and constant, and the reading would be nonsense.

Not being heard is a separate matter entirely and belongs with the being-ignored and speech-failure entries, though dreamers frequently conflate the two.

Sorting them apart is worth doing: one is about your ears and one is about other people, and they point at completely different material.

Where this reads well

A clean continuity case, and the conflation is easy to untangle once named.

Where it is harder

None beyond the tinnitus itself.

Worth asking yourself

Do I have tinnitus awake? Was it my hearing, or was I not being heard? Which was the dream about?

Dream interpretation is subjective. Nothing here is a diagnosis, a prediction, or medical advice.

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