Somatosounds

Often, but wrongly referred to as tinnitus. Somatosounds are natural sounds your body makes that arise in vascular, muscular, skeletal, or respiratory structures, or in the temporomandibular joint. A very common somatosound is hearing your heartbeat–what is commonly called pulsatile tinnitus–but it is not technically tinnitus at all. Other somatosounds include hearing your blood pulsing in arteries near your ears (often a whooshing sound), or hearing your breath sounds as abnormally loud.