That happens to me all the time, and I don't suffer from Tinnitus!

Sean

At 07:42 PM 4/18/00 +0100, you wrote:
>is the delay in the brain decoding messages. Typically I find myself in a
>situation where someone will speak to me, and I am aware of this but do not
>immediately understand what has been said. So I will respond with 'pardon',
>and of course the person will repeat what they said. However, by that time I
>know exactly what they are going to say! My ENT specialist said that this
>was because the brain was taking a short time to decode the speech through
>the background noise generated by the Tinnitus. Bloody inconvenient at times
>though.
>
>Philip Martin.

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