It is hard to imagine how we sound when we are asleep and I
have been always interested in hearing myself sleeping, so I decided to record
myself while I am at sleep and see what kind of world, as far as the audible
components of a world are concerned, our slumbered bodies and somnolent minds
have to endure. I set up my recording device and tried to go to sleep,
naturally it took me more than usual to fall sleep as my mind was fully aware. All
the time that I was trying to put my mind to sleep and tricking it into believing
that this is just another mundane night, was itself in a way part of the
process of sleeping. I think that is the conscious part and the actual sleeping
is the unconscious part of sleeping. I recorded everything from the moment that
I went to bed until the time that I was awake and gotten out of the bed.
In the morning to my great surprise when I listened to the recorded
voices of my last night sleep I realized that when we are sound asleep it is usually
not as quite as we might believe! The problem wasn’t so much of my snoring or
any other sounds generated by me, but the voices of the city again! I was
surprised to find that the city is apparently awake and roaring all through the
night as we are taking our vacations form our cramped and dingy corners of our
realities. All night long, it was the never-ending
procession of sounds of the different vehicles whizzing by my window. The even
bigger surprise is that my window opens to a lonely and almost abandoned back
alley and not a chock-full superhighway. I am not sure if I was actually able
to record any moment of silence that night or better say I’m not sure if I be
able to record any moment of silence at all!
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