That night, after several attempts, I finally have the courage to do some research on the website I found on my roommate’s laptop. Related to it, I learn that people go and listen to white noise as an ambient sound to fall asleep better. And people do this voluntarily. I was baffled.

Why on Earth would anyone do that?!

I then gather my courage and plug the headphones in. And I click it.

It was a simple page, with nothing else but a big screen of static.

But the sound.

The sound was haunting.

Overwhelming. Immense. I feel it crawling into the depth of my being, pulling me into it.

Sucking me in.

I quickly throw the headphones out of my head and close the laptop. Breathing heavily, shaking and not thinking straight, I open it again.

It was only that noise. Nothing else.

Right?

The page is gone.