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Auditory hallucinations while machinery is running?

Some years ago, while I was using a prescription cold medicine, I was hearing drums, bugles, and bagpipes when the refrigerator clicked on or the air conditioner was running.The music stopped when the machinery stopped.There is a technical term for auditory hallucinations which occur in the presence of white noise. Does anybody know the term? I found it in a medical dictionary years ago, so I know that it exists.

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Drums, bugles, and bagpipes? Are you Scottish? Same sort of thing happened to me when I was taking dimetapp.
I dont know but when I was younger I tried huffing gas and after doing so I could hear a band playing in my head with trumpets and bugles. (No bagpipes though)
I know that there is a term psychoacoustic noise.... but I think that it refers to the actual noise that is conducive to auditory hallucination. The only thing i could find that might be similar to what you're talking about is MES or Musical Ear Syndrome. ETA: I kept researching for a few moments.... Apparently tinnitus (which I usually associate with ringing in the ears) can also be singing, or music, etc.

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