Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep

Edward Hoagland
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Ever feel like you would rather hear nothing? Like silence is better than the noise of a tune or a conversation? Like a tune that starts quietly and then builds up to a crescendo, or a conversation that keeps going and going, even when the other person is not actually talking? Actually, silence is not quite as bad as you might think. It can be good for us in many ways, relieving stress and anxiety, restoring the brain to its natural state of rest. In fact, silence can be considered an “exhilarating” activity. The words listed above are all from the same book by Dr. Oliver Sacks, who wrote about this topic in his book Musicophilia.

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