I posted this here because I feel the lack of quiet is by design. Now, a personal story.

My wife likes to sleep with the t.v. on because she is "afraid of the dark." When I wake up, the tv is on and some moron is droning on about whatever. I shut the t.v. off and my dog starts barking to go out. I let him out, he comes back in, and barks for his treat...which he gets. Then the radio goes on or someone calls or someone starts talking. This repeats until I go to bed again with the television on. Never once during the day am I able to enjoy silence.

Once, I tried to sit in a dark room and meditate, but the ringing in my ears from all the noise I'm exposed to was too much to bear.

I find all the noise very distracting.

That aside, does anyone else find they can't get a moment's peace these days?

I, like your wife feel uneasy with silence although I am going to work on it because we are being flooded with technology day and night.It is not normal.

Meh, I hate sleeping without the TV on... I get lonely if im awake by myself. If my lady is up or I have a friend over, I dont mind the quiet, but laying down in bed with silence is just irritating to me. I'll toss and turn for hours and NEVER sleep unless I have a TV or radio on.

Even if there were no technology,or any other living thing around you,you would still hear that sound.
The frequencies of up and out there would be heard.

Get comfortable with the silence is to get comfortable with yourself. As for the ringing in the ears I used to use Binureal beats and some Psionics devices and I noticed especially if I went to sleep listening to it that when I would quite my mind that the sound I used to hear would be replaced by the binural beat or psionic sound weird huh?

I like to have doco's about 2012 or that Kymatica style movie playing or lite Drum & Bass playing b4 I go to bed.... I find it puts my mind in a calm state with space sounding journey vibes b4 sleeping and I drift off well quickly....

would suggest finding mixes or single tracks of the following for chilled sleep time music instead of TV

Klute
LTJ Bukem
PFM
FANU
Alaska DNB
Amit

Hope these help

Originally posted by skoalman88...does anyone else find they can't get a moment's peace these days?

I recently moved to a small town after having lived nearby the 401...one of North America's busiest highways, for most of my life. Now when I go back, I hear the roar, and can't believe people put up with it.

The quiet is good...

Once city overload is too much, i find it helpful to go for few days trek in the forest. It is not much of the forest, however it is quiet and you get all the relaxing you want. If i could find a quiet lake (and only lake in my country is overcrowded always) or a descent river i guess it would be close to perfection, but being alone for few days in the nature is more then enough to charge your batteries for a rest of the year.

I should clarify: by silence, I mean some peace and quiet. I grew up in the city, it was always noisy. I went to the country and all I heard was sirens all night (small towns sharing police and fire). I was really concerned when my ears would not stop ringing.

See, I can't sleep WITH noise. How some of you sleep with the TV on is beyond me, hah!