I live in a city. Not a total metropolis, but it has the typical noise that doesn't cease from day to night. And yet, when I went to the window to smoke, all I could hear was... Nothing. It was quiet, complete and absolute deafening silence. It struck me weird and uncomfortable to open a window and realize the inside of my house was louder then the streets. I could hear my footsteps, the tea boiling, but outside, my lighter echoed from the complete lack of noise. I couldn't finish my cigarette, it bothered to the ends of my mind that the lack of white noise in the background was so absent, my thoughts began to scream inside my head, taking over. The emptiness was so much that for a split second I thought I went deaf. I didn't question why the city was so silent, it annoyed me too much.
But it got me to question, if an entire city can have such a haunting silence from time to time, why can't my head follow the same example.