While sitting for over a half in hour in the quietest place I could find I realized a few different things. One being that it is very hard to find a silent place. I tried three or four different locations and each time i ended up moving because it was never silent. Eventually, when I did come across a near silent study room, I still heard noise.
This brings me to the second thing that I realized. When you sit in silence for an extended period of time your hearing seems to become more keen and picks up on the smallest noises. For example when I was sitting in the study room I could hear the slightest thing, such as the air kicking on, or some one locking their door down the hall.
While this is kinda boring, I started to understand music within silence. There is still ambient noise in a silent room, whether it is your breathing, the air conditioning or just outside noise coming in, and eventually your mind starts to make rhythms with this noise. I found my self breathing at steady and rhythmic pattern that matched the hum of the fan within the vent on the wall. So sitting in silence might not seem like music, I do understand where people generate the idea that there is music in silence.
