Imagining Sound

There is no surprise the sounds I hear are much less than the sights I see; less frequent, less tangible, less near. Sound is never completely still like an unused chair nor distracting like a rickety old door, until they are. 

There is no surprise the sounds I hear can also be so much more than the sights I see; more controlled, more alive, more mechanical, and at times more powerful. The things I see are mostly inanimate objects around me, more exorbitant compared to noisy things until I am completely surrounded by nature, where everything makes sound. 

Objects that are alive or mechanized will be in motion, making noise constantly or timelessly, until they stop for a time with no frequency or precision that is calculable by movement, consciously or by design, or both when we are in control of the movement in every way. The only sounds we can make by our own movement are those we can see. The only sounds we can see are those we can predict by our own hand as in the case of music. 

Rocks can tell us time over long periods but have little to tell us today when we are searching for sound. 

There are a few reasons why I know the speed of hearing is slower than the speed of sight. One is that there is less sound to measure over space as perpetual light shines on every surface instantly while sound has to absorb time because of the two step process called cause and effect. You see motion before you hear it. If you hear something without seeing it first you either question whether you heard it, you want to hear it again or you block it out. Sound does not exist without motion and a second guess. 

If you were in a room devoid of light or movement you couldn’t second guess whether you heard a sound because there simply is no sound without action. There is sometimes no light without action as the sun is in perpetual motion but deep within the sea there is action yet no light.

All sound in darkness is just thoughts you can’t hear and imagination which is sight you can’t see. We should never ignore thoughts in the dark when they formulate our imagination that has us listening to what we can’t see and seeing what we can’t hear.