I'm in a special chamber which deadens every sound, I began to grow more anxious with no decibels around. I've spent my life connected, on the web and on the phone. to be cut off without a dial tone; I've seldom felt this all alone. I am lost, without a signal, uneasy in my skin. I'm wanting to be anywhere except the place I'm in. Was it like this for my mother? she lived stone deaf for years. I was foolish to think blindness worse than deafness in my fears. There are places were a body floats without the sense of touch. The tests' subjects hallucinate,I wouldn't like that much. Noise is fun, noise is good, I need noise, it appears, to distract me from those whispered truths I do not wish to hear.
In the sound deadening chamber most people can't stand it for more than twenty minutes