Do you like silence?

JamesandJon33 My sentiments exactly. DH puts radio on Alexa in kitchen during breakfast, I have to turn the volume right down even though it is music for our generation. I love it when he is out but sadly not so much lately due to health issues. I sometimes feel I could happily be a hermit.

I will "break" the silence for chosen things, otherwise, why have it on? Its a big "up" to living alone.... doing/listening to what I want when In want.

No I don’t like silence, I’m an over thinker and listen to something all the time to drown out the thoughts.
The only time I like it is when I’m going to Sleep, fortunately I drop off quickly.
I have tinnitus too, but since getting my hearings aids last year I barely hear it. I love that they’re Bluetooth so I can have something playing all day long.

Yes, especially from Farage and Jenrik.

Jaxjacky

The only reason I don’t like silence is because it highlights my tinnitus, so the radio is usually on in the background.

Absolutely. I always have the radio on 24/7, usually ClassicFM or R3.
It helps damp down the buzzing in my head.

I like quiet. Never have any noise on when I am on my own. Can’t stand the continuous noise in shops & restaurants. Never put the radio on when in the car on my own. Worst thing is having speakers in your ears.
When D H has sports on the TV I usually leave the room.
I do enjoy music but on my terms . I would much rather hear natural sounds like birds, children playing, wind in the trees.

Depends on how I feel and what I am doing. I really do love to sit in total silence and read, with nothing to distract me. I also like sitting in the garden when it's quiet outside (doesn't happen often anymore) and listen to nature doing it's thing. If I'm doing housework, or ironing or cooking I sometimes have the TV or radio on in the background.

DH and I can sit all afternoon without saying more than half a dozen words, each doing our own thing perfectly happily. I don't think I could live anymore with someone who constantly felt the need to talk or have noise around them.

I love silence, just back from a holiday in rural France and it was so quiet at night that all you could hear was the trickle of the stream running through the garden of the airbnb. Gorgeous.
Now back home - cars accelerate up the road adjacent to our house, that would be one of the 200 cars in our cul de sac, or it's the youngster who's just got his 2 stroke motor bike; in the night, goods trains hurtle noisily through the railway station half a mile away, that is if they are not drowned out by the ring road of our small town often full of the noise of night time lorries delivering or rush hour cars; the neighbour of the adjacent house is always buzzing and chopping with garden machinery....I hate it, I say to my husband I would sometimes welcome going deaf!

I love silence. It gives me time to plan my day, think about things.
I use to put the radio on as soon as I got up but found it was irritating me.
I appreciate having that choice because once I step outside my home
I'm surrounded by noise.

I think that’s why I like my fan on at night, as that drowns out my tinnitus, actually it’s a Meaco & not that noisy, slight hum on low.

I like silence if I’m reading or maybe just some background music in another room with the door open.
I don’t like silence in the car unless I have a passenger to chat to. The radio makes long journeys more bearable.

I don’t like silence because of tinnitus, which I don’t notice most of the time, except when there is silence.
But I don’t like noise either. I can’t bear being in a noisy room, or outside with noisy traffic. Living alone, I now find it difficult when there are a lot of people talking all around.

Everyone else in the house is asleep so am in relative silence I can hear distant sound coming from somewhere and the cat flap jusy clocked so one of the cats has just come in.

I do like silence and also really need to be by myself sometimes and just do as I like in peace

Sorry that should be cat flap just clicked. I didn’t proof read

Try listening to Classic FM or Boom radio ! Both nice depending on your mood!
Silence is golden

I just wish restaurants wouldn't play background music. My husband is very deaf and his hearing aids pick up everything even though he has a background noise suppression setting. It means we can never enjoy a chat over a meal out. We only want to eat out anyway, on special occasions. But we prefer to eat in even for those.

Yes, so shhhhhhhhhh please!

Always have the TV on, sound low, ususally a Border Patrol or Nothing the Declare I've seen dozens of times

Yes ... shh

I would like some quiet time but my tinnitus keeps intruding

Same in our house GrannyGravy13, hi fi, sport, radio, tv, always one or more sound sources. Whenever I'm home alone, which I am today, there is silence.

I live in a village of about 1000 residents. It's not particularly noisy during the day but at night, from about 10pm or so, there's a beautiful silence. I love to sit outside and listen to it.

I never like to be predictable!! Actually I need both. Silence when I am reading in bed at night, and it stops me thinking of worrying things and try to ignore how much pain I am in. Silence from me and anyone else when Bach is playing. I stop and listen and my morning is always improved by listening to Bach before 7. A moment of bliss being alone here as no one can spoil the wonderful uplifting Bach. Silence as I walk up in my beloved swaledale, looking at plants and animals and watching the way the wind alters the way the fields look. Silence at 4am, when I am awake and in pain, but dont feel able to put the radio to disturb my neighbours, so here I will be reading Grans net and catching up on news and views. Swap them round with a noise spoiling Bach and loud music with a beat spoiling the peace of the countryside and I am not happy. So for me it is horses for courses.

another tinnitus sufferer here. one thing i was told is that i must never sit in silence but have some sound always to distract me from my tinnitus.
so i have my favourite radio programme on my alexa during the day and my favourite music channel on sky at night - the latter playing qiietly all night.
i do turn the music off in the evening so i can watch tv - usually what i've recorded on my sky q box.

I love the silence when outside in the garden so soothing. When my DH was alive I was always turning down the music on the radio in the house but nowadays I have the radio on most of the day for a bit of background noise. On the other hand I never notice if background music is playing or not in a public place.