Lichess sounds causing me to hear very loud noises that aren't there?

I've been experiencing something very strange with Lichess that is hard to explain.

Whenever I hear the standard Lichess movement sounds, I hear the sounds in my head keep repeating and getting progressively louder when they aren't actually playing.

For a minute, even after turning the actual lichess sound off, I keep hearing the sounds of pieces moving, and it gets progressively louder to the point of actually causing me physical pain.

It does not happen with any other sounds anywhere on Earth, it happens every time I listen to the Lichess sounds regardless of the speakers I hear them on.

Has anyone else had this happen?
Do any people with more medical knowledge than me have any speculations about what might cause this?

First of all I'll say I have absolutely NO medical training whatsoever, everything I will write is my subjective experience. Take it with a big grain of salt

I've had similar symptoms happen in the past (albeit to a much lesser extent) when playing deeply immersive computer games.

It's a sign you focus too much on the screen. Every 30 minutes or so that you spend in front of the computer, do a 'body inventory'. Check how close you are sitting to the screen and what your awareness of the outside world is like. Sometimes I found myself sitting in front of the computer for hours on end, to the point that it was weird standing up and walking afterwards for a few minutes.

You are not addicted or anything, but your mind does crave for it a lot and *associate it with a great number of emotions*, which is why the piece sound seems to crop up a lot in daily life. My suggestion is that you take breaks inbetween play sessions, and while playing, try to defocus a bit and think about your surroundings, keep an ear open so that you would e.g. notice if someone walked in the room, and finally, don't use headphones so you retain the regular function of your senses.

Actually, I identified the problem after asking a friend of mine who is a medical doctor.

The particular sounds that lichess have are somehow causing severe but short bouts of tinnitus. My brain interprets the ringing as pain and associates it with the noise that caused it, causing the noise to appear to repeat.

It is likely related to how the sounds are compressed or played on Lichess, because it does not matter what sounds it plays.

This provides a unique opportunity to study tinnitus.

We now both have two leading questions:

1. Does the tinnitus effects happen on everyone, or just specific people? To find this out, we need anyone who experiences this other than us (She experiences it too!) to speak out.

2. How is lichess playing the sounds? What about them irritates tinnitus?