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[low_delta]

 

 

 

Sit still in your home for fifteen minutes with the power off.

 

 

Then sit still in your home for fifteen minutes with every appliance turned on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[laciann.livejournal.com]

The silence can be deafening.

We don't really know what true silence is anymore, do we?

[dwivian]

How about sit still in your house for fifteen minutes while your spouse tries to find the pilot light on the furnace? That's what my WIFE WAS DOING WHILE I WAS BUSY IN THE BASEMENT....

Stupid cold house.

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

*grin* The power goes off frequently here in the summer.. planned down time due to lack of energy and I know what you are talking about. It isn't until I am in my house with no electric that I realize how much the background "white" noise grates on my nerves. It is as if my body sighs in relief when it happens. I think that is one of the many reason I like outside so much.. it is not quiet, but it is not artificial either. I find it more pleasant.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

No, we don't. I like to have music on just about all the time. Even when I don't, it's noisy, because I live on a main street. So I need noise to drown out noise.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

:-D
Oh. I mean, that sucks... well... :-D

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

That's it exactly. We don't realize how much all that background noise grates. Like when I'm at work, and I don't notice the roaring of the a/c, until it shuts down and I feel like there was a weight lifted.

[ravengirl.livejournal.com]

yep.
it's actually difficult
to find real quiet anywhere~
even in my home with everything turned off
it certainly isn't quiet~
the empty church
on a saturday afternoon
sunlit windows
no piano strings
a choir in my head~
that's the last real quiet
i remember~

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[laciann.livejournal.com]

I hear ya!! (Ha ha Pun attempted!)

We have a cabin in a forest by a lake. There's the odd time when you can go there (during the week) and there's no boats roaring or people screeching. That's the closest I've come to experiencing total silence. It makes your ears ring!!

[vlinker.livejournal.com]

although i live inside the muni limits of the largest town (or city) in Alaska, i live in a nice quiet area, and i have no large motors or blowers operating in the house....it's fabulously quiet......yeah, you can hear the fridge kick on now and then, and then there's the almost imperceptible noise of the HRV system.....but it's delightfully quiet compared the the old neighborhood with the cars driving about, and all the other neighborhood noise....

of course, those damn tweety-birds are pretty noisy on spring and summer mornings....