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  2. Exploding head syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Individuals with exploding head syndrome hear or experience loud imagined noises as they are falling asleep or are waking up, have a strong, often frightened emotional reaction to the sound, and do not report significant pain; around 10% of people also experience visual disturbances like perceiving visual static, lightning, or flashes of light.

  3. Misophonia - Wikipedia

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    Misophonia (or selective sound sensitivity syndrome) is a disorder of decreased tolerance to specific sounds or their associated stimuli, or cues.These cues, known as "triggers", are experienced as unpleasant or distressing and tend to evoke strong negative emotional, physiological, and behavioral responses not seen in most other people. [8]

  4. Nose flute - Wikipedia

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    In the North Pacific, in the Hawaiian Islands the nose flute was a common courting instrument. In Hawaiian, it is variously called hano, "nose flute", [1] by the more specific term ʻohe hano ihu, "bamboo flute [for] nose," or ʻohe hanu ihu, "bamboo [for] nose breath". [2] It is made from a single bamboo section.

  5. List of unexplained sounds - Wikipedia

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    This sound, dubbed the Whistle, was recorded by the eastern Pacific autonomous hydrophone deployed at on July 7, 1997 at 07:30GMT. According to NOAA, the Whistle is similar to volcanogenic sounds previously recorded in the Mariana volcanic arc of the Pacific Ocean. NOAA also stated that locating the source of an event requires at least three ...

  6. Sailors' superstitions - Wikipedia

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    However, despite the positive attributes, there is one omen associated with his presence: no member of a ship blessed by his presence shall ever set eyes on him; he only ever becomes visible to the crew of a doomed ship. [32] The belief in Klabautermänner dates to at least the 1770s. [33] [34]

  7. Jug band - Wikipedia

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    Whistler & His Jug Band, often making use of a nose whistle, first recorded in September 1924 for Gennett Records. [3] Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band and Dixieland Jug Blowers were also among the first to record. The vaudeville-blues singer Sara Martin and "The Blue Yodeler", Jimmie Rodgers, both employed these bands for their ...

  8. Vessel flute - Wikipedia

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    The air in the body of a vessel flute resonates as one, with air moving alternately in and out of the vessel, and the pressure inside the vessel increasing and decreasing. This is unlike the resonance of a tube or cone of air , where air moves back and forth along the tube, with pressure increasing in part of the tube while it decreases in another.

  9. Rheum - Wikipedia

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    Rheum (/ r uː m /; from Greek: ῥεῦμα rheuma 'a flowing, rheum') is a thin mucus naturally discharged from the eyes, nose, or mouth, often during sleep (contrast with mucopurulent discharge). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Rheum dries and gathers as a crust in the corners of the eyes or the mouth, on the eyelids, or under the nose. [ 3 ]