If anyone had every told me they herd their eyes move, I would have thought they had a mental illness. 
Now I know its possible
I wonder if they also hear themselves blink
Surgery saves man from hearing his own eyeball move
Over a two-year period, Toby Spencer traipsed from doctor to doctor describing his weird collection of symptoms -- all of them involving his left ear.
"One of the first, and probably most disturbing symptoms I had was hearing my left eye movements in my head," says Spencer. "In a quiet room it was so distracting that I would often resort to running a fan or some other white noise to attempt to mask it.
"My voice and breathing were also very magnified in that ear," he explains.
Courtesy of Toby Spencer
Toby Spencer, who's 41 and lives in Skowhegan, Maine, had a strange condition that caused him to, among other things, hear his own eyeball move.
There were other strange signs: "If I turned my head too quickly, especially to the left, I felt like I was falling sideways," Spencer recalls. "Loud noises would also make me feel like I was losing my balance."...
...But it wasn't until Spencer, a 41-year-old IT professional from Skowhegan, Maine, stumbled upon an online forum in which a person was describing almost his exact same symptoms that he learned about a rare condition known as superior canal dehiscence syndrome.
Dehiscence (pronounced dee-hiss-ence) is a fancy word for an opening or a hole. As he eventually learned from specialists in this disorder, Spencer's symptoms were caused by a small hole -- often not much larger than a pinhead -- in the bone covering the superior semicircular canal in the inner ear....
Now I know its possible
I wonder if they also hear themselves blink
Surgery saves man from hearing his own eyeball move
Over a two-year period, Toby Spencer traipsed from doctor to doctor describing his weird collection of symptoms -- all of them involving his left ear.
"One of the first, and probably most disturbing symptoms I had was hearing my left eye movements in my head," says Spencer. "In a quiet room it was so distracting that I would often resort to running a fan or some other white noise to attempt to mask it.
"My voice and breathing were also very magnified in that ear," he explains.
Courtesy of Toby Spencer
Toby Spencer, who's 41 and lives in Skowhegan, Maine, had a strange condition that caused him to, among other things, hear his own eyeball move.
There were other strange signs: "If I turned my head too quickly, especially to the left, I felt like I was falling sideways," Spencer recalls. "Loud noises would also make me feel like I was losing my balance."...
...But it wasn't until Spencer, a 41-year-old IT professional from Skowhegan, Maine, stumbled upon an online forum in which a person was describing almost his exact same symptoms that he learned about a rare condition known as superior canal dehiscence syndrome.
Dehiscence (pronounced dee-hiss-ence) is a fancy word for an opening or a hole. As he eventually learned from specialists in this disorder, Spencer's symptoms were caused by a small hole -- often not much larger than a pinhead -- in the bone covering the superior semicircular canal in the inner ear....
