How important it is for us to experience silence? Is it even possible to experience silence anymore? And is this affecting our judgement of "reality"? Maybe a whole industry could blossom from providing silence to people? "Rent a completely silent room. "
^^" (...........................) (tiptoes into room) aw, damn, sorry Yes, I just have to speak. Couldn't keep my pretty lips shut. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Whoever said "silence is golden" needed a break from all the noise huh?
(smacks hand over mouth) MMMphhhh. Mmmokay! ^_^ er, um, shouldnt we talk about the topic anyway? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I think meditation would be the BEST source of silence. And that's my fifty cents!
I enjoy getting back to nature every so often for a few days away from the city sounds and everything else. It is rather a nice type of silence that is occassionaly broken up by only natural sounds and noises. What I like to do is figure out what it is that makes those sounds if I can and investigate where the noise is coming from. Just sitting back enjoying a beautiful sunrise/ sunset and listening to mother nature is very settling to me. I don't think that complete silence is very good for a person for a prolonged period of time and wouldn't want that to happen to me, although I could adapt to it over time. Ask a person that is deaf if they like what they hear , I'd think they would enjoy any sounds at all.
You can go for sensory deprivation inside tanks filled with body temp saline water, such that you float in them, cut off from noise and light etc. They sound very relaxing. And ther eis plenty of evidence showing how your stress levels are higher living in a noisy city, with traffic etc noise all around you all day. so yes, we need silence and near silence some of the time.
Funny. I do most of my living when the majority are sleeping. No annoying sounds; just me and my thoughts while the rest of the sun followers give me a break from the noise...
great topic, Yes This has always been an interesting topic for me. Have you ever tried any forms of meditation? They can teach you a lot about silence. Some forms of meditation require total silence for long periods of time. There's silence in terms of out perception of noise in the "outside" environment, but even more important is the "internal" silence. In other words, the ability of our brains/minds to continually crank out useless chatter. Our environment and our culture trains our brains to be noise generators. Not only is an industrial/technological society noisy on the outside, it requires it's denizens to be noisy on the inside. Absolutely there's a value in silence, of both types. The first, external silence is hard to experience without going to the wilderness or doing something esoteric like a sensory deprivation tank. Quieting the internal chatter is a lot harder. Meditation or similar method is really the only good way to deal with that one (other than drugs or alcohol which I would not recommend long-term).
I've heard about those tanks, might try them someday. Yes, I meditate from time to time, don't use any particular method though. I agree that the inner silence is as important as the outer. I read in a magazine yesterday that they have managed to make an apparatus than can transform noise to silence, by reversing the soundwaves. But how is that possible? Wouldn't it just be producing another form of soundwave that isn't detectable for human ears? I also saw on tv that the whales have started to sing a new song. It started with one whale that they discovered a few years ago and now the entire humpback population sings the same song. Could this be due to soundpollution?
There is...but just a baby: http://www.bose.com/controller;jsessionid=14F4y7IErpmGdHURLv6ecXuAGiqpuWSnjpGpTCQMI0X4okeT2XGr!-912213459!-2020105979!1069057464350?event=VIEW_PRODUCT_PAGE_EVENT&product=qc2_headphones_index&pageName=/cgi-bin/htsearch whoops! it won't let me enter the entire address. On the main page, search headphones and see "Noise Cancelling headphones" The frustrating part of this is that I had my own working model of this concept on my kitchen table 20 years ago. This principle is used in some automotive exhaust systems as well.