Do you like quiet?

It all depends on what I'm doing. If I meed to concentrate on something, I want peace and quiet, like when I'm reading or studying or I'm on my computer or on the telephone. If I'm washing the dishes or doing other chores, I like music playing so that I can have fun doing the chores.

Hi aurorastorm, How totally different our day is. I am sitting here, in my home, in almost total silence, except for the clean air machine. I hear nothing, except my fingernails striking the computer keys. I love it!. When things are quiet, I am at peace. I can feel my body being more relaxed than when the house is noisy. I have gone as far as turning the ringer on my landline phone off. When there is a message, the light flashes and then I check it. (usually telemarketers). Now, at bedtime that is a whole different story; I cannot sleep if the television is turned off. I don't know if it is for security reasons or night light, but I have to have the sound of the television, only at night. I do, however, make sure that it is on a noncommercial channel, the commercials are extremely too loud. Simple hums is all I want to hear, when I am home alone. PEACE and QUIET , sooth my soul.

When all the sounds are gone and things get quiet, yes, one can feel pretty lonely. I do get that feeling some times. So, when I gate back home from work in the evening, I either turn on the radio or play CDs of my favorite songs and music. That keeps me feel comfortable and relaxed after a long stressful day at work.

Hi, aurorastorm. When I am home alone, I like to have some kind of noise around me. When my kids are at home with me, I like for it to be nice and quiet sometimes. I don't like to hear a lot of noise when I am on the computer. Noise makes me feel very comfortable, especially when I am home alone. Or of my kids are asleep. I don't feel right in a house without any noise in it.

I usually have to have noise as well. Either the radio or the tv is usually on. Steve sometimes wants it quiet so I tell him to go outside, lol.

I am alone all the time. So it is pretty quiet almost always. I use to be the life of the party, where there was loud music there was I. Know, I suppose do to my circumstances I have appreciated the quietness. I will turn on the TV sometimes but since I no longer have cable their is utter garbage on TV, so it becomes annoying to have the freaking scanner thingy that we are forced to use, oh the converter box, and then all I hear is buzzing sounds which become so utterly annoying. I suppose it is not so much that I really like it. I have forced myself to be accept the quite, but I do have my days where I want to go insane as it is just too quiet.

Most of the time when I am home alone I prefer to have music or something playing just to feel like things on going on around me. The only time I prefer to keep it quieter is later at night like now due to my husband is sleeping but this is more considered my alone time as well.

at times my house can get fairly noisy and because my daughters are older 13 & 17, they go to bed sometimes later than i do. hubby likes to stay up and watch tv at night too, but during the day, when i am not working outside of the house, the girls are at school and hubby is at work and i can craft or write in peace and quiet.

Yes I love the silence. I always want something that is peaceful and quite. Of course I listen to music, I watched television, but there are just times that I just want to be alone and enjoy the peace in silence. It is one of my ways to relax. The world right now is quite a noisy world. Perhaps some people may not like being to silent but in our place there are to many noises. So at times, I really feel great if its just the sound of nature that I hear....

There were times that I really am yearning for some peace and quiet. But not the deafening kind like there's no sound at all. My quiet time means no shouting of children, no honking, no clattering, no tv and no unwanted sounds like drilling and stuff like that. But totally quiet is too deafening for me. I hate it ,too. I can't live with that. At least there's a jazz music playing on the background or if technology is not present I can still enjoy the birds' chirping, croaking of frogs, meowing of cats and barking of dogs, anything natural.:)It makes me feel that I am not alone and so in touch with nature and myself, too.:)

Although I love quiet times for myself. To think and even just to clear my mind, I also need background noise. I need this most specially when I go to sleep. When I get sleepy, I put the TV on sleep mode so that it is still open when I doze off. And I program it to automatically open in the morning so that when I wake up from my cellphone alarm, the TV is already on.

Silence is really deafening! You notice it far more than any sound. It disturbs me totally. I like the have the comforting sound of my computer's fans to keep me company.

Hi! As for me i like quiet moments because it helps me to concentrate better at work. I can do something better without any noise. Sometimes a good music but not too loud helps me too.

you know what sometime in those times, we can think better. when its quite we can focus over things, see?, you just realized that you need those noises that you hear everyday, just when you thought its annoys you. sometimes we realize something during quite times. so there, you can turn it off when you feel like it pisses you already, and when you miss the sounds just turn it on again. :)

Hi Auroastorm, I have always been a very quiet person. I love my alone time and what I call my quiet time...times that I am alone with myself...I'm good with all that but I have to say that I love the background noise. I do yoga...the exercises and all but one thing I've never been able to do is the meditation part without any noise at all. It is almost never that I don't have the tv going or mostly music in the background. Sometimes I just put on "mood music" but it's sound. As I type this, I reached over and turned off the TV for the effect. Even the silence has it's sound. I hear the computer running and the strokes on the keyboard. I just heard a car pull into the parking lot outside. I don't know as I've ever experienced complete silence. The absence of the louder sounds only makes the softer ones more noticeable. Now you have my attention, I can even hear my mouse swirling on the mousepad and myself swallowing a sip of my drink. Ok so unless you are deaf then there is no real silence. I think I'll put on some soft music. I can even hear the tick of the clock and the hum of the refrigerator. I think I'll put on some music and choose my own background noise.

I don't know what quiet is.. but I think if there ever was quiet around here I'd probably enjoy it!

I don't like things too quiet either. I do like things fairly quiet from time to time, but not too quiet though. I do like some noise. I think that a lot of it is that I'm so used to having some noise going on in the background.

I too always have to have something on. I may not even be paying attention to the TV, but I need the noise. I used to not be able to fall asleep with some sort of background noise, but I have over come that. The best I can come up with is that I need to sort of multi task to get things done. I've always been a busy person. One thing to do or nothing to do just drives me crazy!

Sometimes I need a little quiet time to myself. A little peace and tranquility can do wonders for my day. My favorite music and a good book and a relaxing bubble bath often are what i take with me to my quiet times.

I also don't like things to be too quiet. Maybe it's because I'm used to at least having a little bit of sounds around me. Like when I get home and it's too quite, I think someone or something is missing and start turning the tv on and look for someone else.