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RE: Quiet Thoughts on a Quiet Day... About Quiet and Stillness
Whilst I admittedly have music blaring about 90% of the time, whether it is in the car or the kitchen - there are those moments when I simply NEED the quiet. There are also certain noises which I find affect me really intensely in a negative way, and I have noticed that my son Jude is highly sensitive in that respect too.
Hey @jaynie! Jude being an HSP, I'm not surprised he has certain noises he's very sensitive to... for me, ir can be something as simple as an unbalanced fan on the neighbor's air conditioner that puts a squeak-whap-squeak-whap vibration in the air... or a leaf blower or string trimmer being used somewhere. Most people would simply tune it out, but I experience it as a protracted nails-on-chalkboard thing. Ugh!
I have music going 90% of the time, too... because... well... music is my mind-altering substance of choice. That's "different," somehow...
But I think a lot of noise is also the result of the many people on the planet who are simply not comfortable being alone and in silence with themselves... so they create "noise" to override that silence inside they are so uncomfortable with.
That is VERY true @denmarkguy. I dated a guy once who could not fall asleep without the tv being on right in front of his bed... so the sounds and all the flickering lights. It drove me to dementia!!!!!!!! They say that sort of behaviour is strongly linked to depression, which in his case would be spot on.