There are moments when the body whispers in tones so high and steady they almost disappear into the fabric of silence. Not distressing — simply present. In a world saturated with signal, stimulation, and ceaseless input, it becomes difficult to discern whether what we’re hearing is damage, adaptation, amplification, or simply the nervous system revealing its baseline. This inquiry began as a practical question about tinnitus — but, as these explorations often do, it widened into something more fundamental: attention, stress, perception, and the quiet architecture of awareness itself.