Can you listen to silence?
Is peace and quiet possible to hear?

I dont think your ears can hear the absence of noise, its like drinking without liquid. About as close as I get is background buzzing from electricity in the house or hear the wind move slightly.

actually..

i've been in total .. complete silence.. and its annoying as hell..

your ears actually kind of hurt.. its a numb buzz.. but its not a buzz.. it feels like a buzz in ur ear.. very numb.. and very irritating.. I had to move a piece of paper just to keep me from going nuts from the silence..

its not relaxing..

wind is relaxing.. wind is not silent

Thats the buzz I hear but I assumed it was from hearing electric currents or ionized particles because I had headaches for a long time from a similar but stronger nosie coming from a satellite recevier that wasnt connected properly.

Thats what the buzzing is. Unpleasant.

I've been alone in a cavern...the absence of sound is unsettling to say the least...the first thing you here is a sort of biofeedback..your brain being used to noise non stop is straining to focus on the slightest signals and ends up giving you meaningless signals generated by your own nervous system.

After the third hour the lack of light has taken over your attention so your ears feel like they've dissapeared but your eyes feel like they've opened out into cold vacum exposing your brain and you can't tell if your eyes are open are closed. When they found me i'd learned echo location and the ability to sleep hanging from the cieling.

one can listen to silence if they are def

hey when def ppl think, do they think with words that they hear, like we do, or do they think in sign language?

....i dont really think its a buzz.....more of a high pitched noise.....like a wistle.....

its not nice anyhows..

ya know its not a good sign when you start hearing words in your head ................

says who?

the voices in my head!

actually complete silence isn't that silent for me.. it might be a mild tinnitus. not sure. but when concentrating I can hear a very very slight buzzing. might be the blood running through my ear.. or the 50hz buzz coming from eletronic devices. it might also be my imagination.

no i think its caused by fluid in your inner ear causing the eardrum to resonate slightly. not completly sure but we did it in college last year most people get that. although what is complete silence?? even in the desart you can hear your heartbeat, breathing thinking wind moving sand.......i would like to experence complete silence

try dying... for if you hear the resonance of blood in your veins, then complete silence can only be experianced when you have passed from this world.

clinically dead for two minutes.....id like to experence silence and be concious of it

That's the thing about being dead - you're dead. You can't be concious of it.

thus disproving all christianitys (and many other religions) notions of an afterlife.

then again it was cus my drink was spiked so i was pretty out of it at the time

who says you can't be conscious when dead? although, you cannot talk or any other bullshit, but prove to me one is not thinking when dead, or better yet that the subconscious is not at work........anyway, what the fuck is silence anyway? how can we prove it exists? merely since it is the opposite of sound?