Hard-of-hearing TikToker who got hearing aids explains what things he thought made sounds but actually don't

• TikToker Milo said before he got hearing aids he thought that clouds and the sun both made noise.
• He said he thought clouds made a "swishy" noise like the ocean, and the sun made a "beating" noise.

When a TikToker first got hearing aids in April, he was surprised to find the sun and clouds do not make any noise.

In a recent post, viewed over a million times, Milo explained he always assumed the clouds made made a "swishy" noise like the ocean. (He doesn't give a surname on his social channels.)

"I thought clouds made like a cross between a swishy and ocean and a wind noise, and they don't," he said. "And that's actually mildly disappointing because I thought that would be a really cool noise."

Milo said he also thought the sun had a noise, which he said might be because he is autistic and takes many phrases literally.

He said he thought the term, "the sun is beating down on us" was a literal reference to a "beating" noise that he'd just never been able to hear.

"The hotter it was the louder the beat was," he said.

Lastly, Milo said he doesn't hear any noise when he puts a seashell up to his ear.

"You know the way people say that if you put a seashell up to your ear, you can hear the sea?" he said. "I can't. I don't know if they don't actually make sea noises or I'm just somehow, I don't know, using the shell wrong."

People shared their own thoughts and experiences with learning about sound.

"As a kid I thought cicadas were the sun being extra intense that day," one person said.

"I feel like it would be terrifying if clouds and the sun made noise," said another.

The sun actually does make a low frequency humming noise, according to NASA, but it doesn't reach us due to the vacuum of space.

Some in Milo's comments explained that with seashells, the whooshing sound you are supposed to hear is an amplification of ambient noise, so people with hearing aids may only hear the whistling of feedback.

Milo also has a series of things he didn't realize made noise but do, including scratching your face, his dog walking on carpet, fire, the drains, wheelchair ramps, and the crunching sound from stepping on frost-covered grass.

"Trees rustling, I've just realized what that actually means now, because I read it in books and I never made that connection before," he said. "But trees make a lot of noise."