They fill everything with noise so you can't hear yourself

The constant noise of notifications, ads and screens works like a drug that numbs awareness and prevents the encounter with oneself. Switching everything off for ten minutes lets you check whether there is anything to hear beneath the stimulus.

## A flow that never stops

From the moment the alarm goes off until the last screen is switched off, the day passes amid notifications, ads, music in shops and televisions on with nobody watching. Silence, understood as being in a room with nothing sounding, has become a rarity. The discomfort of being alone with your own thoughts is the sign that something is going on.

## What appears when there is nothing

When the noise stops, inner listening begins. And what appears is not always pleasant: doubts, unanswered questions, emptiness, death, the meaninglessness of routine. That unease is the reason we go back to the stimulus. Noise keeps us busy, distracted, buying, consuming, opining, getting indignant. There is no conspiracy with villains: it is inertia. Noise sells, silence does not. Noise keeps you on the wheel, silence lets you get off.

## The ten-minute experiment

This is not about isolating yourself from the world. The proposal is concrete: switch everything off for ten minutes. No phone, no music, no talking. Just you and the silence. At first it causes anxiety. Then, if you can bear it, something appears. Maybe it is not a voice. Maybe it is the feeling that all the noise outside was not necessary. Everyone has their own threshold of silence. Those who do not listen to themselves will never know there is something to hear.