Brian Godfrey, you wrote,
> I once descended something like 3/4 mile underground in a lava tube
>at Lava River Caves State Park near Bend, OR. Near its end the tube
>begins to fill up with sand and the trail is dug through it until it
>just stops in a small, round room about big enough for three or four
>people. I was there on a Wednesday on the off season and arrived at the
>end utterly alone. I sat down, turned off my flashlight, and realized
>that ALL of the noise I heard was in my own head - and you would be
>amazed at how much noise that is! I don't know how long I sat there - a
>very long time - carefully shutting down all of the noises. I got
>almost all of them and it took a lot of patience. Eventually a group of
>people came along and snapped me out of it and I left, but I've never
>known such peace. I'd recommend it to anyone. Wouldn't be much use
>recording it, but I guess you could check your mic's noise floor or
>something. :-)
Quietist place I ever experienced was Haleakala crater on Maui. I
walked a few hundred yards down the trail from the visitor center and
there was nothing to hear; no wind, no insects, no birds, nothing in
the sky. Heard the blood rushing in my ears.
-Dan Dugan
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