> People sometimes report the same effect when they go into anechoic chambers.
That was my immediate though about this. When you go into an anechoic chamber, the loss of ambient sound makes you feel like you've gone deaf, which is as if something was stuffed into your ear.
I think your ear basically uses the change in ambient sound as a cue which produces the stuffy feeling.
That was my immediate though about this. When you go into an anechoic chamber, the loss of ambient sound makes you feel like you've gone deaf, which is as if something was stuffed into your ear.
I think your ear basically uses the change in ambient sound as a cue which produces the stuffy feeling.