In near-total silence a person may hear the mechanics of their own body

Evidence

If the bucket dredge was the actual pumping system of my heart, I reflect, then what I heard, in the most perfect silence I have sampled to date, was the engine of my own life: the thump and rhythm that are me, my very speed and timing. — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 578

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 578
• XREF: connects to: Humans internally carry oceanic sound because we evolved from aquatic ancestors — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 607; Extreme near-total silence can trigger panic, disorientation, and physical illness — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 474; Silence is a positive, self-contained reality rather than mere absence. — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 19 (+29 more)

Related

• Silence is not the mere absence of something else, but a complex positive phenomenon #expands (0.60) — Silence: The Phenomenon and Its Ontological Significance

Library Connections

• Near-total silence reveals that most people generate internal sound perceived as tinnitus #exemplifies (0.80) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 571

Broader Connections

• A deaf man’s brain feels less silent without hearing aids than with them on #exemplifies (0.70) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 323