Silence can be uncomfortable because distraction was doing more work than you realized.

Distraction does more than pass the time; it holds things at bay. Feelings you have not processed, questions you have not answered, tiredness you have not admitted. When the distraction stops, all of it becomes available at once, which is why silence can feel so unpleasant so quickly.

Rather than concluding you dislike quiet, ask what arrives in it. Name the specific thing rather than the general discomfort. Once it is named it usually becomes manageable, and the silence stops being something to avoid and becomes the place where you notice things in time.