Blogspot 9: What if there was no music?

Silence.

Imagine a world without music. What if you lost your sense of hearing? Ever wonder what a deaf mans concept of sound or music is like?

Songs play a huge part in our lives. When we’re heartbroken, we listen to songs that we can relate to and empathize with the lyrics, its comforting. When we’re happy, we tend to listen to songs that celebrate life and songs that give us the warm and fuzzies. We like to go about our lives, with a soundtrack. You wake up on the right side of the bed, and you bust out your Ipod with a playlist ready to set the mood to. What if that was taken away from you?

The Anechoic chamber holds the Guinness World record for quietest place on earth, as said by Ted Thornhill's article entitled "We all crave it, but can you stand the silence?" on dailymail.co.uk. NASA uses this as a research center to replicate the silence in space, the kind that astronauts would have to endure for long periods of time. However, it is said that staying in this room for 45 minutes can cause hallucinations and mess with a persons mind. The room is so quiet that you can hear your own heartbeat!.

Sound has several effects on the physical body, according to Hazrat Inayat Khan's article entitled "The Effect of Sound on the Physical Body" on sufimessage.com. If after 45 minutes a person can go crazy with the absence of sound, it just shows its importance. The ears adjust to the environment, therefore, if you take away the sound, our ears will magnify whatever sound it can pick up, whether it be our heartbeat or our intestines digesting.

It is clearly apparent that the human organism is in an extremely delicate state of equilibrium and any profound disturbance of this system wil have subsequent ramifications on the individual.

So, if you were deaf, or suffer from loss of hearing, how is sound explained? Music or sound, is mostly vibration, movement. A deaf person has a higher sense of touch allowing him to feel the vibrations more than a normal person would. According to forums for deaf, and explained by Adrian Lavelle's article entitled "How do you describe music to a deaf person" on adrianlavelle.hubpages.com, it really is mostly about feel and touch. Music was never made to be explained anyway, but to be felt.

We cannot exist in a world without sound or music. To be left with ones own thoughts is uncomfortable, to be with too much noise and not hear your own thoughts is equally unbearable. Music and sound, it’s a part of our lives, its what makes us human. Without it, we’re no different from beasts.