Sometimes it just /feels/ like there's chatter in the distance or background I don't hear it per se but it corresponds with anxiety and sensory overwhelm, such that taking a moment to assess and relax will reveal that there is a silence to relieve the suffocation of something that wasn't there. I will realize there was no chatter. There was (usually) never conscious awareness of a conversation or television in the background or cafeteria noise, but the feeling is identical to being in the background aware of it. It latches onto the quietest of noises and warps the boundaries of what sound is attached to.

Mental anxiety chatter... warps the boundaries... of what sound is attached to. 

Anyone else have similar?