The Quietest Place on Earth

I think it would be amazing to be in that room. The only problem is that I’d probably get annoyed by all the noises I would make myself. Like the rustle of clothes as I move, etc. Of course, if I were sleeping/meditating that wouldn’t be as much of a problem. :smile: :astral:

My biggest worry would be what leaving the room would be like, to be suddenly assaulted by noise.

Silence FTW! :content:

it would be cool to see how quite u really can be
i cant imagine what TRUE silence is like… :dream:

I think that I would start to hear things that aren’t there. Like a beep or someting. I sometimes have that in a quiet room. I don’t think that I will like it.

Agreed.

ohh… silence would be completely awesome… ive been in a sound proof room before… it was amazing. i was on a tour of our hospital, and the room was for audio therapy (or something like that). even though there were other people in there with me, the entire atmosphere changed. you could here the other peoples breathing, you could almost here their heartbeats. of course, the silence a ruined by a enthusiastic drum playing panda… and then a symbol playing elephant… freak the heck out of everybody. but when we left it felt really weird. you could here the noise coming down all the corridors colliding around you ears… it was pretty intense

Silence (sigh)… I would love to be in a room like that for my meditations. All too often there is so much noice and distractions it would be nice to hear nothing for awhile. A couple of years ago at the Canadain National Exibition in Toronto they had a hallway that was made of some kind of sound absorbing material. It was really freaky, leaving the noise of the exibition grounds to the sudden absolute silence of nothing for 30 seconds, then to the noise again.

bit, if you think about it, meditation with noise is a good thing. it forces you to flex you meditation muscle. it helps you increase your ability to be completely inward, accepting the noise, but not paying attention to it, and letting it wash over you. imagine if you were able to meditate in a busy/loud place, or a concert hall that somebody dragged you to. if you were able to meditate in complete silence, that would decrease that ability. if you ever tried to meditate in normal surroundings, you’d lose focus quite easily, and that = not good.

im guessing the key is to make a silence room in your mind… only adding to the depth of meditation.

I don’t know how it is with only silence but I read about a tv-program, I never saw it though.

They were doing an experiment with being enclosed in a silent and dark room.

They explained that being in a dark and silent room was (the worst kind of?) torture since the brain needs sensory input or it would soon lose cognitive abilities and it won’t take longe before the brain starts hallucinating.