You know what? I think I'm going crazy.

[shada pavlova]

I think I'm going crazy. Is it just me, or does this happen to everyone?

In the early black-and-white episodes of Doctor Who, the "hum" inside the console room is quite loud and noticeable. Well, recently, I keep hearing the exact same hum at the oddest times!

For instance,

• At my Grandmother's house, standing at the bottom of the garden, looking at some far-off fields and contemplating life, the universe and everything, I suddenly heard it, loud as anything.
• Just outside a pub, I was eating lunch and suddenly heard it coming from an outbuilding.
• When I was lying on my bedroom floor with my ear pressed to the ground (I won't go into details) I suddenly heard it through the floor.

The thing is, they all sounded exactly like the TARDIS console room hum. Is it just me? Or does this happen to other people too?

[Jon Masters]

Its an easy mistake to make.

You're hearing the hum of the alien machines which maintain the virtual reality matrix in which they have enslaved the whole of humanity and that you have mistaken for the real world in which you think you live.

Deja Vu ?

[SiHart]

I think perhaps you may be a human TARDIS like Compassion in the EDAs.

Si xx

[shada pavlova]

Well, sometimes I can feel my heart beat on the right side of my body as well...

[Rob McCow]

Tinnitus! You've been playing your music too loud, laddy. That ringing may mark oncoming deafness.

[shada pavlova]

it isn't ringing! It's humming. That fluctuating hum that you hear in the early episodes.

[WhiteCrow]

Crazy?

Possibly.

[shada pavlova]

now that's crazy.

[Dirk Gently]

Every one knows that I'm not crazy, oh no. Not me, never.





Thribble!

[Zbigniev Hamson]

My fridge sometimes makes a hum very much like a Season 18-onward console room. It's quite nice when it does

[shada pavlova]

Phew! It isn't just me.

[Zbigniev Hamson]

It's just one fridge though. I don't hear it EVERYWHERE I go, particularly not while lying on the ground listening to floorboards

[Dirk Gently]

• When I was lying on my bedroom floor with my ear pressed to the ground (I won't go into details) I suddenly heard it through the floor.

You have a knot hole in your floor boards?

[Ian Lethbridge-Stewart]

My fridge sometimes makes a hum very much like a Season 18-onward console room. It's quite nice when it does

Stationary or in-flight?? - well it must be in-flight as the stationary one used in Seasons 18 to 26 was already in use prior to Season 18.

I'm so sorry - I can't help myself!!!!

[Andrew Curnow]

My fridge sometimes makes a hum very much like a Season 18-onward console room. It's quite nice when it does

We have a machine at work that switches on with the noise of the 'sting' into the end credits during the Pertwee/Baker era.

Plus we have a customer called Graham Williams and another called Steve Roberts. Oh yes!

[Zbigniev Hamson]

Stationary or in-flight?? - well it must be in-flight as the stationary one used in Seasons 18 to 26 was already in use prior to Season 18.

I'm so sorry - I can't help myself!!!!

It's the stationary one actually, I obviously just don't know when they started using it. My mistake.

Having said that though, if you're THAT much of a conoisseur then you should have realised I wouldn't describe the in-flight noise as a "hum", it's more of a whine surely

[Pip Madeley]

I don't know what Mr Pavlova is on, but where can I get some?

[Zbigniev Hamson]

Perhaps if you lay on your floor breathing in carpet insulation it might trigger something

[shada pavlova]

I don't know what Mr Pavlova is on, but where can I get some?

whatever are you implying?! It's just a thing that happens to me sometimes.

[Wayne]

left blank

[Stephen Morgan]

My DVD recorder makes a humming noise when I have that on, I have to play some loud music to cover it. it's been on now for three hours, the neighbours are tearing their hair out.

[shada pavlova]

I heard it again today!

I was watching a movie on tv at precisely 2:08 PM, and I heard it, clear as anything!

Plus, this morning I was walking through a church car park, and a bus went by just outside. I SWEAR I heard the TARDIS materialise behind it!

Or am I really going crazy?

[Dirk Gently]

I'd seriously consider calling a doctor if I were you.

[Pip Madeley]

Or failing that, Peter Cushing.

[Zbigniev Hamson]

Are you going through a phase of watching loads of Doctor Who at the moment? Maybe it's infecting your subconscious a little bit. Loads of things make mechanical/electrical hums so it's not too weird to hear that all over. But if you're hearing the TARDIS materialise now... that's a bit out there.