The author offers a counterpoint to Dr. Lemert's cosmic musings on the nature and meaning of silent dread in psychoanalytic discourse. Grounded in contemporary interpersonal thinking, this article attributes the patient's anxious speechless state to a dissociative process brought on by temporal discontinuities in early life. A qualitatively different analytic inquiry, based on quietude and deep listening, is proposed to capture the wordless moment and to invite the unspoken into dialogue.