Can You Hear the Silence

[Nakosis]

I came across this debate, and I suppose it is more opinion than fact, however, can you hear silence?

 

[PureX]

Barring any external noise, my own body seems to make quite a racket. So I don't believe I've ever actually heard the sound of silence, except metaphorically.

 

[Windwalker]

So I don't believe I've ever actually heard the sound of silence, except metaphorically.

Oh ye of little faith. I grew up listening to it on the radio. Now you can't say you've never heard it:

 

[PureX]

Oh ye of little faith. I grew up listening to it on the radio. Now you can't say you've never heard it:

It's mislabeled. That's the "SONG of silence".

 

[PureX]

... One of my favorite YouTube videos, ever ...

 

[exchemist]

I came across this debate, and I suppose it is more opinion than fact, however, can you hear silence?

I suppose it depends what you mean by "hear". One can certainly perceive silence. But only very rarely in the modern world. When I lived in Dubai, many years ago, I used sometimes to go out into the desert, stop the jeep and just walk. No sound of vehicles. No wind. No birdsong. Nothing.

Sifr.

I found it so peaceful and special. I have never found that silence anywhere else.

Maybe I'm being romantic but I fancied at the time this feeling is something present in the Koran.

 

[Aupmanyav]

Yeah, very clearly. It is a loud sound. How can anyone miss it?

 

[Twilight Hue]

Sometimes when you sit down and shut up.




You start noticing things you've never been aware of, even though it's been going on around you all the while.

 

[Mock Turtle]

... One of my favorite YouTube videos, ever ...

Not seen the Disturbed version before (which I then watched), and although I love the S & G version, that has to be one of the best interpretations of a song ever, and much needed. Loved her reaction, even though the less spiritual amongst us (me, of course) react possibly just the same - to such passion and rage.

 

[Secret Chief]

Maybe we should all listen to 4'33" by John Cage.

 

[Secret Chief]

"Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence."

- Robert Fripp.

 

[PureX]

Not seen the Disturbed version before (which I then watched), and although I love the S & G version, that has to be one of the best interpretations of a song ever, and much needed. Loved her reaction, even though the less spiritual amongst us (me, of course) react possibly just the same - to such passion and rage.

It is an amazing cover of an already amazing song. I thought the same thing.

 

[gnomon]

Brunswick, Georgia heard the sound of silence for a couple of months.

 

[Jesuslightoftheworld]

I came across this debate, and I suppose it is more opinion than fact, however, can you hear silence?

Yes it’s a hum!