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Have you ever truly experienced absolute silence?

The other day I was thinking to myself about the things that I would like to experience. It brought me to one question: Have I ever experienced absolute silence?

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Can't say that I have. But I have experienced a quiet so deep that my heartbeat and my digestion were quite loud, relatively.

metaphorically AND physically yes yes yes

Maybe when I have to take my dog out in the middle of the night because she has diarrhea. She`s tiny and when she scurries out into the yard it is like she is on tiptoe anyway. I sit there in a wicker chair and just love the quiet. But maybe it is only quiet and not absolute silence. I was just wondering if anybody else thought this drawing intensely phallic? LOL

Not absolute silence, but pretty close -- my husband and I watched the sun set on a ridge overlooking Crater Lake in Oregon once, a few years ago. When the wind would subside, it was very, very quiet there.

There's a girl from my school who is nearly 100% deaf, and when she wants to read or work really seriously during a class, she turns her hearing aids off and she says she can't hear ANYTHING. I would absolutely die for that power!

oh what I would give... .. sigh.. the past two nights, there's been a loud cricket either in my room or just outside the window driving me bonkers... I think i'm gonna feed him to my friends lizard when I catch him..

Silence is the loudest sound.

When I have a syncopal episode (fainting) I hear absolutely nothing for the couple of minutes that I am unconscious. I would say I have truly experienced absolute silence.

I think it may be impossible... I mean, even in a state of complete rest, in a room with no noise whatsoever you still hear your breath, your heart beat. If you considered your thoughts some sort of internal noise then that is yet another disruption of silence. I guess when thoughts come into play there are different sorts of silences like inner silence or inner peace. I don't think I've ever felt absolute silence, but it sounds very nice.

Not true "absolute" but quite close.

nope. not even listening to cage's 4'33" which is quite the point. i have experienced his excellent book SILENCE

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Have you ever truly experienced absolute silence?

zamfir

Can't say that I have. But I have experienced a quiet so deep that my heartbeat and my digestion were quite loud, relatively.

seedeypete

metaphorically AND physically yes yes yes

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Not absolute silence, but pretty close -- my husband and I watched the sun set on a ridge overlooking Crater Lake in Oregon once, a few years ago. When the wind would subside, it was very, very quiet there.

toriaaaaaa

There's a girl from my school who is nearly 100% deaf, and when she wants to read or work really seriously during a class, she turns her hearing aids off and she says she can't hear ANYTHING. I would absolutely die for that power!

calholli

oh what I would give... .. sigh.. the past two nights, there's been a loud cricket either in my room or just outside the window driving me bonkers... I think i'm gonna feed him to my friends lizard when I catch him..

Chelsey

Silence is the loudest sound.

Trixie

When I have a syncopal episode (fainting) I hear absolutely nothing for the couple of minutes that I am unconscious. I would say I have truly experienced absolute silence.

bubbaboyjr1989

BlueCrayon

Not true "absolute" but quite close.

MLZellers

nope. not even listening to cage's 4'33" which is quite the point. i have experienced his excellent book SILENCE

Have you ever truly experienced absolute silence?

Can't say that I have. But I have experienced a quiet so deep that my heartbeat and my digestion were quite loud, relatively.

metaphorically AND physically yes yes yes

Not absolute silence, but pretty close -- my husband and I watched the sun set on a ridge overlooking Crater Lake in Oregon once, a few years ago. When the wind would subside, it was very, very quiet there.

There's a girl from my school who is nearly 100% deaf, and when she wants to read or work really seriously during a class, she turns her hearing aids off and she says she can't hear ANYTHING. I would absolutely die for that power!

oh what I would give... .. sigh.. the past two nights, there's been a loud cricket either in my room or just outside the window driving me bonkers... I think i'm gonna feed him to my friends lizard when I catch him..

Silence is the loudest sound.

When I have a syncopal episode (fainting) I hear absolutely nothing for the couple of minutes that I am unconscious. I would say I have truly experienced absolute silence.

Not true "absolute" but quite close.

nope. not even listening to cage's 4'33" which is quite the point. i have experienced his excellent book SILENCE

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