'silence feels' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to describe how silence feels or sounds. For example, "The silence feels heavy in the air."
These are macro benefits, but often silence feels good on a purely animal level.
Standing physically close to strangers in silence feels bizarre, but then again, so does any kind of gratuitous pleasantry.
— but overall "Silence!" feels like a by-the-numbers gag musical that doesn't just fail to break any new ground but also covers its familiar territory with only sporadic flashes of ingenuity.
For several challengers, like Mr. Lewis, a postal worker who does the overnight shift and is staging his bid from his basement in the suburbs, silence feels worse than a tough head-on fight.
A traditional moment of silence feels insufficient.
(To our consciousness, the pressure of such a silence feels almost unbearable, dead air time).
After his return to the Guards, Carr-Gomm spent a weekend on retreat at a Franciscan friary in Dorset, where he slept in a cell and, in the companionable silence, "felt a clarity of vision and a peace, feelings very rare for me".
"But the silence felt like half an hour.
None of us seemed fully awake; the silence felt tangible.
Still, it did lead me to reflect during one of his most famous early hits that never has "The Sound of Silence" felt less appropriately named.
The silence felt light and wonderful, broken only by a blast of unprintable abuse heaped down on us by clifftop baboons.
