• We all crave it, but can you stand the silence? The longest anyone can bear Earth's quietest place i
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What if a deaf person did the challenge?
I remember reading somewhere that the brain absolutely craves for noise or vision and stuff like that, so if there's none present, it'll make you hallucinate to see/hear shit.
[QUOTE=V12US;35453678]You're a schizo.[/QUOTE] I wonder what people who lucid dream are then, I can induce sleep paralysis and hallucinate the shit out of myself by just sleeping facing upwards, the only way I can properly sleep is with my face against the pillow turned slightly sidways so I can breathe. I didn't say I heard voices all the time, that IS schizo, I said that if you focus all your thoughts on just sound alone when trying to sleep you can hear random voices, words and sometimes even sentences before you fall completely asleep, it's not easy to achieve this, usually having a humming sound like a working computer nearby helps. [editline]6th April 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Heigou;35455404]I remember reading somewhere that the brain absolutely craves for noise or vision and stuff like that, so if there's none present, it'll make you hallucinate to see/hear shit.[/QUOTE] Basically you start "dreaming" in an awaken state.
When I was younger, and there was complete silence, then I'd start to hear voices in my head as well. They got gradually louder until I made some noise myself.
"Sitting quietly in a room with no noise whatsoever..." Oh that looks easy "...and completely dark" LOL NOPE
[quote] ‘We challenge people to sit in the chamber in the dark - one reporter stayed in there for 45 minutes'[/quote] I have no sound and I must scream
Considering it's a reporter wouldn't there be a report from him about what he experienced?
[QUOTE=jaykray;35455589]Considering it's a reporter wouldn't there be a report from him about what he experienced?[/QUOTE] Maybe he is too traumatized to speak of it.
I've been in a similar room in Salford Uni, it's pretty weird I have to admit. Just that strange buzzing sound you get when you can't hear anything.
I don't think I could even do 10 minutes. Sitting in any sort of dark makes me hear low murmurs and see motion past me.
John Cage's experience: In 1951, Cage visited the anechoic chamber at Harvard University. An anechoic chamber is a room designed in such a way that the walls, ceiling and floor absorb all sounds made in the room, rather than reflecting them as echoes. Such a chamber is also externally sound-proofed. Cage entered the chamber expecting to hear silence, but he wrote later, “I heard two sounds, one high and one low. When I described them to the engineer in charge, he informed me that the high one was my nervous system in operation, the low one my blood in circulation.” Cage had gone to a place where he expected total silence, and yet heard sound. “Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.” The realisation as he saw it of the impossibility of silence led to the composition of 4′33″.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;35454914]You would probably go insane.[/QUOTE] Maybe. It's not like it's something you can actually imagine though, so there's little way of telling how particular people would react outside of just assuming they would be the same as everyone else. It's like imagining what being blind is like. You just can't properly do it without asking someone else.
I'll visit it on acid you know, for science.
I think it's more a combination of dark and quiet that really puts people down.
I hallucinate noises already. Especially phone rings and steam beeps.
[QUOTE=mysteryman;35452272]This plays on sensory deprivation doesn't it? Also, jokes on them! I have Tinnitus.[/QUOTE] My tinnitus went away a few months ago out of nowhere, but I can tell you that being in a quiet room with tinnitus makes it unbearably loud, so imagine in the quietest place on the planet. I dunno how long you've have tinnitus, but that's something you should know. It's very unpleasant.
[QUOTE=mysteryman;35452272]This plays on sensory deprivation doesn't it? Also, jokes on them! I have Tinnitus.[/QUOTE] This :D I have problems trying to sleep because of it, i would probably stay in there for hours lol
Now if that were made into a jail cell would that be considered a form of torture?
Cut off all sensory input, and your brain starts filling in the gaps.
I bet you can hear your own breath
Wait no, i forgot, my tinnitus becomes unbearable loud when it is really quiet and dark :suicide: As soon as i switch on the lights my tinnitus becomes quiet again :tinfoil:
Ok so worst experience ever, do this- [QUOTE=RobbL;35453985]Imagine what it'd be like dropping some acid then sitting in there in complete darkness[/QUOTE] but also chuck in a model of this guy and have it very dimly lit from below with a deep red light or something [IMG]http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyp7zvZLZ21roceedo1_500.jpg[/IMG] Who'd be up for that? Oh and I forgot, the exit from the room would be locked for 24 whole hours.
[QUOTE=RobbL;35456365]Ok so worst experience ever, do this- but also chuck in a model of this guy and have it very dimly lit from below with a deep red light or something [IMG]http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyp7zvZLZ21roceedo1_500.jpg[/IMG] Who'd be up for that? Oh and I forgot, the exit from the room would be locked for 24 whole hours.[/QUOTE] Or put one of these in the room on a silent treadmill (can't think of anything else) and have it move closer to the person occasionally. [img]http://www.thereplicapropforum.com/attachments/f9/researching-new-project-weeping-angel-foam-sculpt-weeping-angel.jpg-79535d1325436325[/img]
I would probably talk to myself aloud to keep from going mad.
[QUOTE=Derposaurus;35456527]I would probably talk to myself aloud to keep from going mad.[/QUOTE] That's usually what mad people already do.
[QUOTE=Derposaurus;35456527]I would probably talk to myself aloud to keep from going mad.[/QUOTE] Talking to yourself is practically the first symptom of being mad. [editline]6th April 2012[/editline] damn it.
This is basically how sensory deprivation chambers (also known as float tanks) work, except you still have a sensation of touch in this one. In float tanks, you float in very dense salt water in a dark/quiet chamber. After some time you start to basically hallucinate. I tried one before, the way I'd describe it is uncontrolled lucid dreaming.
How do you breathe in it?
[QUOTE=jaykray;35456602]How do you breathe in it?[/QUOTE] In a float tank? Your face is still above the water while floating (the water is quite dense due to the saltiness), and I'm sure that the tanks allow air in/out as well discretely.
Just imagine, even sitting alone in your room would not compare to the silence of this room. You would go absolutely mad.
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