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The World’s Quietest Room
Scientists at Minneapolis’ Orfield Labs created their own soundless room, an anechoic chamber. Their studies have found that when putting subjects within the chamber, they begin to hallucinate within 30 minutes.
With an average quiet room having a sound level of 30 decibels, the anechoic chamber’s sound level is -9 decibels. The ceiling, floor, and walls of the chamber absorb sound rather than have it bounce off as normal objects do. The chamber is so quiet that the subjects can even hear their own organs functioning.
Although extremely interesting, the experience is rather unpleasant. Not one subject has spent more than 45 minutes in the chamber alone. Leaving a person to only their thoughts, the chamber could drive them insane.
I want to be here. I want to see the deeper parts of my thoughts, and maybe figure some things out.
the room makes you literally go insane after an extended period of time
its not serene its fucking horrifying did you even read the post
Forget torture chambers
Just put people in here
I’ve been in there and it’s only silent if you stand ABSOLUTELY STILL. And then you hear your body buzz and your breathing and heartbeat.
But if you walk, you hear the highly muffled twang of the wires used to keep you up.
And it’s also highly dependent on how much you’re afraid of (almost) total silence. I could have stayed in there for a long time, but my father got nervous and twitchy at the depth of the quiet.
