Total silence for more than 45 min makes the mind go crazy!

[BlueEverglades]

There's a new study/ research about the effects of total silence on the brain. What they've found is that when all outside noise is removed from an enclosure, human hearing will do its best to find something to listen to. In a room where almost 100% of sound is muted, people begin to hear things like their own heartbeat at a greatly amplified volume. As the minutes tick by in absolute quiet, the human mind begins to lose its grip, causing test subjects to hallucinate.

and yet in America society living alone and in silence all the time it's a good desirable thing to be emulated! If you put two and two together we can connect the dots and see why is there such a high mental disease statistics in the U.S! I wonder how many new schizophrenics lived alone before they had a breakdown? I had this happen to me actually and I desire to live with people because mankind have lived in groups since the beginning, separation, isolation only meant you died earlier! How can you identify with this?

[Winston]

Where's the study? You won't be afraid of silence if you are in nature or in meditation. Or if you are reading a good book.

[E Irizarry R&B Singer]

Shoot! Most Americans are lividly afraid of silence. That's one of the reasons why it's so hard to find an apartment, when that time comes to find one, that you can set up as a recording studio with the loudest instrument being your voice into the microphone - because the walls are cheaper and thinner now and people always have the idiot box churning away all the electricity.

[Wolfeye]

I think Americans (at least some) crave the HOLLOWNESS. It doesn't have to be silence, but it DOES have to be bullshit. Anything but something significant! I think it has to do with the idea that valuing anything is being controlled & unfree, yet VALUING not valuing anything IS a value. Kind of a "desire to rid yourself of desire IS a desire" type of thing.

The "social silence" on the other hand, is something that I think DOES work that way. Having every hand turned against the other is a point & there's also the idea that (again) it's somehow being independant. To me, independant is having personal skills & a mind of your own- not that you can't work with anybody or agree with someone. I've noticed a tendancy to think (even if it's just on the level of it being a wordless assesmment) that agreement is defeat. A lot of TALK about getting along with other people, but it doesn't seem to happen that way 9unless it's being sneaky & dodging arguments by acting like they like someone).

[mattyman]

I think Americans (at least some) crave the HOLLOWNESS. It doesn't have to be silence, but it DOES have to be bullshit. Anything but something significant! I think it has to do with the idea that valuing anything is being controlled & unfree, yet VALUING not valuing anything IS a value. Kind of a "desire to rid yourself of desire IS a desire" type of thing.

The "social silence" on the other hand, is something that I think DOES work that way. Having every hand turned against the other is a point & there's also the idea that (again) it's somehow being independant. To me, independant is having personal skills & a mind of your own- not that you can't work with anybody or agree with someone. I've noticed a tendancy to think (even if it's just on the level of it being a wordless assesmment) that agreement is defeat. A lot of TALK about getting along with other people, but it doesn't seem to happen that way 9unless it's being sneaky & dodging arguments by acting like they like someone).

I think people are too afraid to talk their own minds and be honest about the way that they feel, a lot of ill could be attributed to this.

RE Wolfeye; yes, it's good to be independent and have a mind to your own. Most important is the idea that agreeing with people=defeat; a bit of anegative way of reading into things. There does seem to be an awful lot of such narrative around these days along these lines. It's as is people have some sort of rivalry mentality. No wonder rates of loneliness and depression are at an all time high. If people are under the idea that 'you agree with someone it means you've 'failed'', no wonder.

On the note of the OP, a slightly different sub-topicc; does anyone who's been forced to stay-in when you want to be out and about, hate being told to 'enjoy your own company'?

[Ghost]

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[Jester]

On the note of the OP, a slightly different sub-topicc; does anyone who's been forced to stay-in when you want to be out and about, hate being told to 'enjoy your own company'?

I want to CHOKE them

[Jester]

I desire to live with people because mankind have lived in groups since the beginning, separation, isolation only meant you died earlier! How can you identify with this?

When people start talking about how I must enjoy "PEACE AND QUIET" it does make me angry. I encounter this a LOT on expat real estate sites.

What they dont seem to get, is that EVERYWHERE is "peace and quiet" nowadays. There ARE no families, if you live in the USSA -- everyone has their own headphones on, and are tap-tap-tapping into their own smartphone. There are no communities, only suburbs.

The yammering about meditation, cooking alone, downward dog in the living room, enjoying one's own company -- is nauseating. People who verbally advocate for hermit lifestyles should all just take a vow of silence -- and shut up.

[Wolfeye]

It's a "boy in a plastic-bubble" situation for sure- except it applies to females, too. I think there's a general "freedom" issue among people (at least from the "T.V. Generation" on down). The weird thing is that having laws about everything (with the very real potential to get locked-up over something ridiculous that COULD have been something serious in a different situation), constantly having more & more restrictions on your time, and socially having an unofficial need to justify everything you do (when no explanation other than an immediate survival need is good enough- also unofficially) doesn't seem to bother them in the same way. Maybe it does & they don't mention it or work against it?

These same people that don't want to deal with people also have an issue when dealing with machines for a lot of their orders & services, which is a sensible issue but is a Catch-22. They don't want to deal with machines instead of people, but then don't want to deal with people with day-to-day situations. I think another things is that the term may or may not be meant this way, but it's functionally looked at as "dealing" with people- like it's a hardship. It's implied that it's an adversity & that seems to sink in.

Also there's people being ironic- saying that they don't want to deal with people at all to be humorous or to come off "deep." Sometimes I think it's just a counterphobic thing or at least acting not bothered by things to look good to other people. Which is weird, since their efforts are to distance themselves from these very people they're trying to look good in the eyes of. Maybe it's just doing something that doesn't make sense?