Each of us was faced with a situation where for no reason ears start to burn. Moreover, sometimes situations for such “signals” are the most inappropriate. But what to do, as they say, "as is, so is."
Mystical look at the problem.
Perhaps few of us have asked ourselves the question of why our ears burn. No, no, not in the sense of interpreting popular signs, but in the sense of a scientific explanation of this phenomenon. As for signs, many from childhood have absorbed that if their ears burn, then someone is discussing in conversation. It can be assumed that at the subconscious level, a person is able to perceive the information flows that are associated with his person. And if someone actively discusses it, then the person reacts to it in such a peculiar way.
It is noteworthy that folk wisdom considers the situation when ears are burning, not only in general, but also depending on which particular ear responds with redness and heat. So, it is believed that if the right ear is lit, then this is a good sign, then you are being discussed with a touch of approval and they are not saying anything bad.
It is a completely different matter if the left ear burns: apparently, someone speaks badly of you, says disgusting things. The offended and wounded subconscious perceives negative waves and signals a person: be on your guard. By the way, along with fever in the ears, a person may feel a general malaise or feel out of place.
This is with regard to popular signs, or, as skeptics say, superstitions and prejudices. But what do scientists think about this?
Physiological view of the problem
Blame everything, according to scientists, omnipotent stress. Yes, really “omnipotent”, stress today is both the cause and the result of various ailments and health problems (physical and mental).
The first kind of it in the case of a strange reaction of the hearing organs is mental stress. Scientists from Australia conducted a series of studies and concluded that ears burn with significant mental stress. When the brain is “loaded”, it needs more oxygen, access to which depends on the blood supply system. The brain gives a signal that it needs more oxygen, the blood flow increases, the path of which lies through the carotid artery. Blood moving to the head is divided between the brain, which required supplements, and the inner ear, which, in fact, did not need a bonus. A side effect of such a bonus blood flow is the sensation that ears are burning.
The next species is an unexpected fright. If a person is frightened (especially when he is relaxed and does not expect danger), he has a powerful surge of adrenaline. As a result, redness and fever in the ears.
As a kind of stress, you can consider guilt, remorse, shame. Perhaps you have a close person with whom you have not talked for a long time and who can remember you, think about you. The subconscious (our uncontrolled “I”) feels guilty for the fact that communication has ceased and begins to “push” our consciousness, which does not observe a cause for concern, that the time has come to act.
The simplest reason ears can burn is a reaction to the heat. In hot weather, blood rushes to all areas of the skin in order to increase heat transfer; in some people, large quantities of blood are directed specifically to the ears, hence the reaction.
Ears burn even if a person is sick. It can also be a reaction to a specific stimulus. In the first case, you need a doctor's examination and taking medication, in the second - all the same plus the exclusion of the action of the stimulus.
That's what science and folk signs say about the heat in the ears. Believe it or not, your right.
We live in an amazing world in which truth and fiction, feelings and calculation, science and superstition go hand in hand. Taking into account the highest level of development of science, one cannot deny the fact that next to it there is something that even the best minds of this world cannot understand, at least for now. Whatever the name of this “something” - faith, miracle, supernatural, prejudice, superstition - it exists, even in the human mind.