The Art of Silence

     Sitting in silence for five minutes isn't always the most easy task to do or even attempt to do. You twiddle you thumbs and sit there and wonder what are you really doing sitting in a soundproof room in the dark. However, if you try actually focus on the goal of the whole exercise, listening to silence and just feeling the lack of sound is strange. In the end, the whole experience was soothing to say the least. Yet, the weird aspect still exists.
     After about a minute without sound, it felt that the only thing I really could focus on was the smell. For some reason (either the silence or darkness) I just focused on the awkward smell. But more focusing led me actually closing my eyes, ignoring smell and actually trying to sense the "sound". At first, my ears felt kinda of funky like there should be something that I could hear, but after some time passed it appeared that even a slight movement could be heard.
     Every breathe I took, I heard an audible intake of air around me. Every move of my hand, I heard scrap against the sound of my fabric. Maybe I am not used to silence or sitting alone in the dark, but I for me it felt like my senses were heightened in some way. Be it from the silence or what not, my sense of smell seemed irritated and my actually physically heard light breathing. I try to breathe about the same as I did in the soundproof room, but I still can't hear it as well as I did in there.
     Other than the sounds I made, I really didn't hear anything else except for the slight pressure on my ears as I tried to focus. So I don't think I heard any imaginary sounds. 
     Still, the whole sitting in silence is an art in itself. Really, what kinds of sounds could we hear or imagine if you had to sit there for over an hour in utter silence. Would you imagine something that really isn't there? Would you start playing songs in your head over and over again until time was up? Would you have to move so you make your own sound? Would you even be able to sit still for that long in silence?
     I guess there are a lot of questions to think about. I really don't have a good grasp on the idea of different sounds yet or of what different sounds necessarily could represent. Anyways, I guess the whole needing a hearing aide in my left year kinda inhibits the whole sound idea too. I'm ready to figure out what sounds are to come.