Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
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true silence i experienced once in an anechoic chamber.
Scarriest silence i've ever heard: a full power-down of a server room i had spent many hours in.
The most concerning sensory deprivation I've ever encountered was when Katrina happened. I wasn't in any of the disaster areas, but it still hit hard where I lived.
When I woke up, I literally couldn't see anything. The power had gone out and I guess the weather was still cloudy enough that no sunlight penetrated my blinds. Also, it was intensely quiet; I was still young at the time so I didn't have real servers, just always-on towers, but my stuff was on UPS' so I was accustomed to at least hearing their beeps if it was out long enough for them to notice.
In this situation, I suppose it had been out long enough to drain their batteries and I had slept deeply enough that the beeps didn't disturb me.
Also, the house had central HVAC and I was used to hearing it run much of the time. Between that, the lack of system fans, the lack of beeping, and not being able to tell whether my eyes were open, it was a disorienting way to wake up.