Can you hear silence?

I’ve always, since I can remember, had a slight hiss in my ears detectable only when all other sounds are not. So that for me is what silence is.

Yes, it is the sound of one hand clapping. ;)

Actually, I only truly hear it when the entire place is covered in snow and everyone is in their little homes and there are no cars on the road. It is one of the most magical things I can think of—dead silence.

I will give you a great answer on that @Kayak8. I know that sound. My father-in-law liked to hike in the woods and described that feeling and sound at night in the deep woods with snow blanketing the earth and every limb, twig and ground shrouded in cold without a sound as the shining.

I like the sound of it. Hearing silence. Just the phrase sounds good : )

Yes, I think you can, too. Just like you can see the absence of color—black—you can tell when you’re hearing the absence of sound—silence. That’s how we’ve got a name for it. Someone heard it: “Hey, what’s that lack of noise?” Someone else: “Uh… sounds like sss… siii… silence!”

For me silence is kind of like with @woodcutter. I hear not a hiss, but a weird, hard to describe tone. I can tell it’s coming from inside me, but it’s so quiet that I guess I can only hear it when the rest of the world ssshs.

In my car silence is my seventh preset radio station. It’s my favorite. The one I only realized I had when I couldn’t stand any of the songs on the six I’ve programmed into the car radio. It was so liberating to just hit the off button and not have to listen to the sound waves being jammed into my ears.

Where my house is, if you’re inside and have nothing on, it can be dead silent but in the most still and calm way. I like that, too. I’ll just sit there and enjoy it
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@DancingMind I didn’t mention some of that white noise probably is brought on by some of the meds I use, and I was in field artillery for a while. It could be that there are some goings-on inside our bodies that we pick up as sound when it’s quiet enough outside that we hear it. Sort of like those floaters we see inside our eyes when they are closed, or open. We train ourselves to ignore those things to receive what’s out there, making no sound.

silence is a sound less surrounding which we can feel.silence we cant hear because it doesn’t
produce sound.

@woodcutter – I’m with you when everything is totally silent I “hear” a slight hissing/constant tone. This could of course be damage I’ve sustained to my ears over the past years.

@woodcutter—Oh. Weird then I don’t know what I hear…

I’ll never know….f’n tinnitus.