Imagine the opposite scenario toWhat Women desire . Instead of waking up with a newfound ability to listen woman ’s thoughts ,   à la Mel Gibson ( or Taraji P. Henson for2019 ’s sexuality - switchtake on the celluloid ) , you wake up having lost the power to see men , full occlusion .

That is what materialise to a woman called Chen   from Xiamen , a port metropolis on the southeastern glide of China , agree toThe Daily Mail . She knew something was n’t quite right when she woke up one sunrise   to find she could n’t hear a parole her boyfriend was saying .

presumptively , a little unnerved , she tally into   Qianpu Hospital to see an ear , nose and pharynx specialist , where she was capable to hear her Doctor of the Church speak but not , bizarrely , a affected role who walked into the elbow room . Her Dr. was a womanhood . The patient was a man .

It was n’t long before Chen was diagnosed with an auditory condition called   reverse - slope earreach red ( or RSHL ) , which refers to the patient ’s unfitness to get wind low frequency . It ’s not just manlike voices   they scramble with but any specially low sound , including articulation over the telephone set , the Harkat ul-Ansar of a motorcar , and thunder . According toThigpen Hearing Center , many people with this shape do n’t even realize they have it .

It is also extremely rare . Again according to   Thigpen Hearing Center , roughly 3,000 people in the US and Canada have the condition . That is just one in every 12,000 incident of take heed loss .

Instead , the Brobdingnagian majority of people who have some character of hearing loss have what is called   ski - slope hearing red . Aka   a   difficulty in identify mellow frequency . That can admit the voices of women and children , which incline to be higher pitched than male voices . Because of the way of life it is forge on an audiogram   – a diagonal incline from the top left - hand quoin to the bottom right - hired man corner   – it get its name , ski - gradient .   RSHL is the opposite , hence its name , reverse - slope hearing release .

It has been linked to genetic science and can be trigger off by sure disease ( for lesson ,   Ménière ’s disease ) and viral infections . It can also be because of change in the pressure of the fluid in the internal ear ,   endolymph , which itself can be the result of   spinal or ecumenical anesthesia , intracranial high blood pressure , and a perilymphatic fistulous withers .

According to reports , Chen had experience phone in the ear and vomiting the nighttime before and her doctor attributed it to try and a want of eternal sleep . The good word is , just like   Gibson and Henson , she is expected to make a full recuperation .