Noam Hassenfeld

And that's what it's doing.

It's pulling out high and low and separating them between your ears.

I really have no idea.

I cannot listen to this and hear the tones in both sides.

Like I just hear low on one side, high on the other side, even though I know that that's not actually what the audio is.

I even spoke to this science writer named Mike Korist, who lost his hearing and then got a cochlear implant.

And it made everything sound kind of weird and robotic.

Like, you ever see that movie Sound of Metal?

Where the drummer loses hearing, he gets a cochlear implant, and then everything sounds metallic and robotic and glitchy.

Amazing movie.

But what this guy Mike did is that he practiced and he retrained his brain to listen to music.

He really wanted to listen to his favorite piece of music, Bolero.

to test out new hearing aids.

And he practiced listening over and over again.

He remembered what it sounded like and he retrained his brain so that it sounded less robotic and metallic.

And he told me that he can listen to Bolero again and really enjoy it.

He actually retrained his brain.

He used this superpower.

It is not that simple.

Tinnitus usually comes from hearing damage, and it's really difficult to figure out the best way to fix that.