My ears never pop or ever have in planes or going up or down hills in a car when other people’s ears around me do.
I never feel ear pain or pressure during elevation or air/water pressure changes.
I’ve looked online for others like me but all I find are people who can’t pop their ears and want to.
How is everyone else’s ears popping and not mine? What does it feel like? Sometimes people say it feels good sometimes it hurts, I don’t get it and when I tell my friends I don’t experience ear popping I get looked at like somethings wrong with me.
Have my ears just evolved to release pressure without popping? (I know I’m stretching here but it would be fun)
It’s not really popping, it’s the sound of two slightly wet surfaces getting drawn apart. It’s only sounds a bit louder due to it taking place close to your eardrum.
It might indeed just be your eustachian tubes being wide, like suggested. You could’ve still had some blocking of the tubes due to to mucus/snot.
Also there blockage might not be painful, it can just come across as a slightly more duller perception of sound around you. You can stimulate the effect by keeping your nose and mouth closed and sightly blowing air, like you would blow your nose (don’t push to hard, though)