We all crave it, but can you stand the silence? The longest anyone can bear Earth's quietest place i
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they have done similar projects where they put patients into dark rooms, they started to see some very creepy things in their heads. It was all on film but I cant remember the show.
[QUOTE=JamesRaynor;35459164]I mean we have people who are completely deaf, but function fine despite being unable to hear. Sounds like a crock really. Especially that sitting in the dark bit.[/QUOTE]
Yeah but the thing is, deaf people don't expect to hear things, people will functioning hearing do, so the brain goes all "WHY THE FUCK IS THERE NO NOISE YOU RAGEDDY ASSHOLE!? FUCK THIS SHIT, YOU'RE NOW OFFICIALLY HEARING VOICES NOW, HAVE FUN!" and you start experiencing aural hallucinations.
Get's even better when you see the darkness shifting in front of you.
I want to sneak in and hide little speakers in there before someone goes in
...and then start whispering stuff after about 20 minutes
I'd like to try and meditate in the room. I've got a lot of questions on the mind and a perfectly quiet perfectly dark room seems like the perfect place to think about em
[QUOTE=Lizzrd;35460746]It not being an olympic branch still doesn't rule out the fact that it's a record. People don't strive towards it because there is simply nothing to strive against.
Congratulations, you can sit in a soundless room for an hour here's your complimentary shirt.[/QUOTE]
I'm getting rated dumb because I say that 45 minutes seems like a joke of a record. Not saying it would be a picnic, just saying give me a shot, I'll sit in that room for a couple hours. I may hallucinate and I may be a little crazy when they pull me out but it's mind over matter. You just have to prepare your mind.
[QUOTE=lucasjr5;35464722]I'm getting rated dumb because I say that 45 minutes seems like a joke of a record. Not saying it would be a picnic, just saying give me a shot, I'll sit in that room for a couple hours. I may hallucinate and I may be a little crazy when they pull me out but it's mind over matter. You just have to prepare your mind.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_deprivation#Negative_effects[/url]
Seriously, it's not even remotely close to what you imagine.
Being a Minneapolis citizen, I'm going to get into contact with the place and ask to volunteer.
I plan to write a narrative on my experience for my school newspaper.
Minnesota represent.
That is all.
[QUOTE=jaykray;35455697]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, [B]he informed me that the high one was my nervous system in operation, the low one my blood in circulation.[/B]” 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]
I want to experience that.
[QUOTE=Pierrewithahat;35464781][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_deprivation#Negative_effects[/url]
Seriously, it's not even remotely close to what you imagine.[/QUOTE]
"While awaiting trial, reports surfaced that he was being tortured for information with the use of sensory deprivation FOR WEEKS AT A TIME."
Again, no picnic but surely someone could stand a couple hours without going insane. O.o I know its rough I'm familiar with the effects, why do people think 45 minutes will drive you crazy? 45 minutes would yield some disturbing faces you see in the dark but mentally you could probably overcome that and stay for several hours. Why does that sound so crazy?
[QUOTE=lucasjr5;35465571]"While awaiting trial, reports surfaced that he was being tortured for information with the use of sensory deprivation FOR WEEKS AT A TIME."
Again, no picnic but surely someone could stand a couple hours without going insane. O.o I know its rough I'm familiar with the effects, why do people think 45 minutes will drive you crazy? 45 minutes would yield some disturbing faces you see in the dark but mentally you could probably overcome that and stay for several hours. Why does that sound so crazy?[/QUOTE]
It's been proven scientifically that the brain does not handle sensory deprivation well. You can see it in the wikipedia link you quoted. What you're not understanding is that this isn't normal silence we're talking about here. We are talking about the kind of silence that you can't even imagine because you've never experienced it. And it's the kind of silence that your brain doesn't like. As someone said earlier, when senses are cut off the brain starts filling in the gaps, hence the hallucinations and vastly increased aural perception. These are all desperate attempts by the body to sense something; ANYTHING.
So you can sit there and say "There's no way it's that big of a deal," but I can guarantee you it is. It's the kind of silence that will quickly start making you question your own sanity.
I wonder what a lucid dream in a place like that would be like.
[QUOTE=lucasjr5;35465571]"While awaiting trial, reports surfaced that he was being tortured for information with the use of sensory deprivation FOR WEEKS AT A TIME."
Again, no picnic but surely someone could stand a couple hours without going insane. O.o I know its rough I'm familiar with the effects, why do people think 45 minutes will drive you crazy? 45 minutes would yield some disturbing faces you see in the dark but mentally you could probably overcome that and stay for several hours. Why does that sound so crazy?[/QUOTE]
Because this is near perfect silence, the human brain can't cope with this shit, and it's not just a few faces and some odd noises, you can't know what it's gonna be like until you're there and I imagine that if you are even slightly compromised mentally then you're well and truly shafted.
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[QUOTE=Dejarie;35465808]I wonder what a lucid dream in a place like that would be like.[/QUOTE]
It probably wouldn't happen, because you wouldn't be sleeping or it would become sleep paralysis.
you know what would make this shit even worse? no gravity. you'll be floating in the middle of the room with nothing to hear, nothing to see, and nothing to touch; complete sensory deprivation. you're brain would make up for it by hallucinating so hard you'd hear things, see things, and feel things touching you.
you'd be tripping so many types of balls
[QUOTE=BuDSpOoNce;35466039]you know what would make this shit even worse? no gravity. you'll be floating in the middle of the room with nothing to hear, nothing to see, and nothing to touch; complete sensory deprivation. you're brain would make up for it by hallucinating so hard you'd hear things, see thing, and feel thing touching you.
you'd be tripping so many types of balls[/QUOTE]
They have those, they're called sonsory deprivation/floatation tanks.
I wanna go in there.
With a playboy magazine.
Hallucinating women everywhere.
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[QUOTE=BuDSpOoNce;35466039]you know what would make this shit even worse? no gravity. you'll be floating in the middle of the room with nothing to hear, nothing to see, and nothing to touch; complete sensory deprivation. you're brain would make up for it by hallucinating so hard you'd hear things, see thing, and feel thing touching you.
you'd be tripping so many types of balls[/QUOTE]
I guess you'd start to 'dream'.
Hey cool, we have a room that looks almost exactly like that at my college. It's pretty cool, it's even lifted off of the ground slightly.
We were taken in and put in the dark there for 2 minutes or something, and people were already complaining.
They use the room to test speakers.
When I went to Mammoth Cave they told everyone to stop talking and moving and it was completely quiet. You can't hear any noise in the cave. It was really weird and unnerving. My ears started ringing after a while of complete silence.
I would just cheat and sleep on it.
[QUOTE=supertribute;35489505]I would just cheat and sleep on it.[/QUOTE]
Yea but then the ringing in your ears gets ya.
I'd be able to last 9 hours.
Fall asleep lol.
[QUOTE=Blazyd;35489789]Yea but then the ringing in your ears gets ya.[/QUOTE]
I get pretty distracted by sound...so yeah.
[QUOTE=lucasjr5;35465571]"While awaiting trial, reports surfaced that he was being tortured for information with the use of sensory deprivation FOR WEEKS AT A TIME."
Again, no picnic but surely someone could stand a couple hours without going insane. O.o I know its rough I'm familiar with the effects, why do people think 45 minutes will drive you crazy? 45 minutes would yield some disturbing faces you see in the dark but mentally you could probably overcome that and stay for several hours. Why does that sound so crazy?[/QUOTE]
You still don't understand what absolute silence is do you?
I could break that record, i wanna do it.
On the other hand i could send my friend and his girlfriend their to have sex in that room.
For science, of course.
[QUOTE=The Combine;35452872]45 minutes is a lot of time though if you got nothing to concentrate on except sitting in a completely silent room. I do believe it fucks you up if you start to feel uncomfortable for whatever reason. Maybe the sound of your heart beating suddenly makes you really nervous?[/QUOTE]
I don't know, I've gotten lost in thought before and didn't snap out for a few hours
I think this place would be amazing
I'd love to be in this room. I don't care how insane I'll get! The thought of absolute silence makes me very curious.
I would honestly be more freaked out by the visual hallucinations than anything
me and completely dark rooms don't mix
Fucking Tinnitus, I always have ringing in my ear when it's silent, hell even when it's partially silent.
[QUOTE=HeroicPillow;35457325]Apparently i live less than 6 miles away from this, but they have no information readily available online about visiting it. I'm emailing them now to see if they'll let some random college student tour their facility.[/QUOTE]
An update on this. I emailed them and they finally got a chance to return my email with full details; they are stated below:
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Thank you for your interest, the Anechoic Chamber is a working lab and while we do do tours we schedule them in the afternoon on Friday's at 3:00. If you would like to join a tour we request a $20 donation per person for the food shelf here in Minneapolis, we ask that it be in the form of a check made out to Branch 1. If you have others that would like to join you we would be please to have them, however no one will be permitted to stay in the Chamber alone for any great length of time.
We do tours on Friday afternoon when we have interested parties for groups of six at $20/each for the food shelves. Private tours on other days of the week would need to be scheduled in advance and are at our daily lab rates of $100 1/2 hour/ $175/hour.
If you are interested in joining a tour please feel free to contact me, our next tour will be April 20th at 3:00 PM[/quote]
Seems like an interesting way to spend a friday afternoon. Now to just see if some of my friends will want to come with.
Wow man.. this is one of the things you should have on your imaginery list of things you would like to do before you die. Experience complete silence.
Those low db under 20hz can also make your heart stop and or break your balance/movement, it's really interesting and I am not wondering why speakers or cinemas dont ever use hz under 20. Trainstations and other machinerys generally make these low sounds but not as dangerous as an direct impact by a wave done in 1hz or 2hz to your face.
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