Silence?

So, do you think if you are in a quiet room, with no clocks to tic etc. that silence is enshured? No, when I meditate there is sound, but not via my ears but straight into my head. Sometimes a whistle, sometimes a hum but more often than not a tune! Yes I seem to have a cheesey juke box in my head. Small snipits of songs, useally not even songs I like, go round on a 'loop'.

To minimise this I have taken to limiting my listening time to music, and have started to just let it be. Not try, as I have done, to turn it down by visulizing a volume control. Just letting it be and focusing on the breath in time does the trick.

If it becomes to distracting I have in the past used chanting which is very effective alternative.

So, silence is not golden, it is infact full of the absence of sound, or at least the sound we expect to hear.