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Adjacent, I work in a lab so we have dozens of ovens and freezers running constantly, so I'm intimately familiar with the constant hum, even though my office is a couple of doors away from the oven room.

We had a full site shutdown last week, which involved all power being shut off, which meant no running ovens.

The lack of sound felt so strange, like I was somewhere I shouldn't be, or in some sort of liminal space. It was unsettling in the silliest way.

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The empty is what I call it. It's not a buzz in your ears, it permeates your entire body. And when it stops it's like part of you is missing.

Which is really odd, because just leaving the building doesn't have the same effect.




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