I usually think so. After a long day at work with kid noises I'm ready to go home, put my feet up and enjoy a few hours of silence. Of course my students don't understand that. Most of them can't comprehend they enjoyment of a place without a cacophony of auditory and visual stimulation. And I can't explain it to them.
Then, the other day it struck me why. I was in a room with other people who were not in the mood to communicate with each other. This silence was deafening and very uncomfortable. If I could've hid, I would've done it in an instant. I wonder how many of my students exist in places where the silence is so uncomfortable that they feel the need to fill it.
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