{"id":232947,"date":"2026-03-10T10:11:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/tinnitus-is-somehow-connected-to-a-crucial-bodily-function"},"modified":"2026-03-10T10:11:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:11:45","slug":"tinnitus-is-somehow-connected-to-a-crucial-bodily-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/tinnitus-is-somehow-connected-to-a-crucial-bodily-function","title":{"rendered":"Tinnitus Is Somehow Connected to a Crucial Bodily Function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tinnitus-is-somehow-connected-to-a-crucial-bodily-function.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those who have never endured the relentless ringing of tinnitus can only dream of the torment. In fact, a bad dream may be the closest some get to experiencing anything like it.<\/p>\n<p>The subjective sound, which can also be a hissing, buzzing, or clicking, is heard by no one else, and it may be present constantly, or may come and go.<\/p>\n<p>Neuroscientists at the University of Oxford now <a href=\"https:\/\/rnid.org.uk\/hearing-research\/silencing-tinnitus\/how-does-sleep-affect-tinnitus\/\">suspect<\/a> that sleep and tinnitus are closely intertwined in the brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who have never endured the relentless ringing of tinnitus can only dream of the torment. In fact, a bad dream may be the closest some get to experiencing anything like it. The subjective sound, which can also be a hissing, buzzing, or clicking, is heard by no one else, and it may be present [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}