Are We Really Separate? Sound, Connection, and the Space Between Us

Have you ever felt completely connected to someone during a soundbath? Or noticed how certain sounds seem to vibrate not just through your body, but into something beyond you?

It’s easy to think we’re all separate—bodies, minds, lives. But when you zoom in to the tiniest level, things get a bit strange. Atoms, the building blocks of everything, are mostly empty space. And at the quantum level, particles aren’t even solid things. They’re more like patterns of energy, little blips in invisible fields.

So what holds us together?

Not “touch” in the way we normally think of it. Instead, it’s all about forces, vibrations, and fields. The electromagnetic force keeps atoms stable. The strong force binds the centre of atoms. But even more fascinating, some scientists believe we’re made of tiny vibrating strings of energy—like musical notes playing out into form.

That’s string theory, and if it’s true, then everything—sound, matter, you, me—is made of vibration.

Then there’s entanglement. Two particles, once connected, stay linked no matter how far apart they move. What happens to one affects the other instantly. That might sound abstract, but maybe it’s a clue. A hint that connection isn’t just emotional or symbolic—it could be physical, woven into the fabric of reality.

I’ve never been able to meditate the “usual” way. I can’t visualise—I don’t see colours or shapes when I close my eyes. And my mind never really goes quiet. But when I play the gong, something changes. I don’t just hear the sound—I feel it. The vibrations move through my body, as if I’ve become part of the sound itself.

I close my eyes, and I’m no longer thinking. I’m floating. Merging with the tones. Sometimes, from that space, a song rises through me—my voice starts to harmonise with the gong. It’s not something I plan. It just comes through, like I’ve tapped into something beyond myself.

And maybe that’s it.

Maybe we’re not here to separate, but to remember.

Maybe life—and for some of us, many lives—is a journey of slowly realising that we were never really apart to begin with.

That underneath everything, we’re still connected.

All made of the same thing.

All vibrating strings of energy, humming together in the dark, trying to remember the song we all started with.