Without Sound.. I’m Thinking
“ I have these thoughts, so often I ought , to replace that slot with what I once bought, cause somebody stole my car radio and now I just sit in silence... I’m forced to deal with what I feel , there is no distraction to mask what is real. I could pull the steering wheel” - Car radio, 21 pilots
Do you feel lost without your music, your podcast, your youtubers, your audio books. Do you feel lost without something distracting you from being found? Do you freak out when you realize you forgot your headphones in your Mom’s car? I’m not a doctor , but than you might have Phronemophobia, or the fear of thinking. Sounds are not used to create meaning they are used to stop the fear that in the silence we will discover things we do not want to know. When we are alone we feel our minds with music and our eyes with tweets and our heads with words so that maybe we won’t have time to think.