No one has lasted more than 55 minutes in the quietest place on Earth

[TootsieFootsie]

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No one has lasted more than 55 minutes in the quietest place on Earth​

Made of 3.3ft-thick fibreglass acoustic wedges and double walls of insulated steel and thick concrete, the room absorbs 99.99 per cent of sound.

The conditions within its Fort Knox-style walls are so intense that the longest amount of time anyone’s been able to endure in there is 55 minutes.

“We challenge people to sit in the chamber in the dark,” the lab’s founder Steven Orfield told Hearing Aid Know. “When it’s quiet, ears will adapt. The quieter the room, the more things you hear. You’ll hear your heart beating, sometimes you can hear your lungs, hear your stomach gurgling loudly.

“In the anechoic chamber, you become the sound."

 

[callmehenry]

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No one has lasted more than 55 minutes in the quietest place on Earth​

Made of 3.3ft-thick fibreglass acoustic wedges and double walls of insulated steel and thick concrete, the room absorbs 99.99 per cent of sound.

The conditions within its Fort Knox-style walls are so intense that the longest amount of time anyone’s been able to endure in there is 55 minutes.

“We challenge people to sit in the chamber in the dark,” the lab’s founder Steven Orfield told Hearing Aid Know. “When it’s quiet, ears will adapt. The quieter the room, the more things you hear. You’ll hear your heart beating, sometimes you can hear your lungs, hear your stomach gurgling loudly.

“In the anechoic chamber, you become the sound."

This sounds like the stuff of nightmares tbh

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I like silence.
I get the feeling that I could last longer than an hour.

 

[pigpen000]

I seems it will be anything but silent. For people with tinnitus it could be quickly extreme noise.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Fascinating place. I would like to experience this, maybe for about 20 minutes.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Fascinating place. I would like to experience this, maybe for about 20 minutes.

Me too

 

[Chelly]

To me, sounds like a great place to take a nap.

 

[Boots38]

This sounds like the stuff of nightmares tbh

A quiet room sounds like the stuff of nightmares? I believe it sounds quite nice.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

To me, sounds like a great place to take a nap.

I think it sounds like your nervous system goes into hyperalert, though, trying to hear sounds. So perhaps you're not going to fall asleep, when you hear your own heart beating loudly, etc.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Surely you would know that your hallucinations aren't real and would be able to just ignore them.
And I think it would be interesting to hear more clearly the noises our body makes.

I had hallucinations once when I'd been without any sleep, for quite a few days.
It looked like something was trying to come out of the wallpaper, and was I scared, no, I was fascinated

 

[airportwoman]

There have been sensory deprivation experiments done over the years. There is quiet, and there is something like this, that is not natural. Most people do not last long in those tests.