silence is suffocating

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I've always hated silence until just under 2 years ago when I was staying at my sisters house, I sort of got used to the quiet. The weird part is that I could have put on music or something but I didn't. When I'm staying somewhere else, things that I'd normally do, don't always get done. In this case I guess it was always having music on when there was nothing else making noise, like TV or rain.
Ever since then, I have found myself occasionally sitting in silence for hours, I'd never been able to comfortably do that before. I used to hate sleeping and waking up in silence. Sometimes it was as if the silence was too loud. That probably makes no sense but I guess my mind must create some sort of noise that isn't quite like regular noise. And then other times it would create music or people talking in an over crowded room so I can't understand what anyone is saying.
Now, I have no idea why but silence doesn't bother me so much anymore. Don't get me wrong, I still prefer to have noise but it's no longer a necessity all the time.