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Feb 5^th, 2023 at 11:43am

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.............. Only very few people have been able to withstand being in the room for a long period of time — at most an hour.

After a few minutes, you’ll already start to hear your own heartbeat. A few minutes after that, you can hear your own bones grinding and blood flowing. .............

https://www.couriermail.com.au/technology/science/no-one-can-stay-in-the-quietes...

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Reply #1 - Feb 5^th, 2023 at 12:08pm

I could easily do 8+ hours in them.
No different to being in a hyper-baric chamber.
You will find that in that Quiet Room, other factors come into play for those who can only hack an hour.
1. Carbon Dioxide build-up from breathing, stuffiness and lack of free-flowing fresh air.
2. Claustrophobia.
3. Turn-over of people wanting to have a go and waiting in line.
4. Boredom

There's probably more.

If they are so bad that people can only hack 1 hour - maybe they should be installed in prisons as a torture chamber? Wink

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Reply #2 - Feb 5^th, 2023 at 12:38pm

Sprintcyclist wrote on Feb 5^th, 2023 at 11:43am:

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.............. Only very few people have been able to withstand being in the room for a long period of time — at most an hour.

After a few minutes, you’ll already start to hear your own heartbeat. A few minutes after that, you can hear your own bones grinding and blood flowing. .............

https://www.couriermail.com.au/technology/science/no-one-can-stay-in-the-quietes...

Amazing.
There's a horror story in there. There are several.

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Reply #3 - Feb 5^th, 2023 at 12:49pm

Jasin wrote on Feb 5^th, 2023 at 12:08pm:

I could easily do 8+ hours in them.
No different to being in a hyper-baric chamber.
You will find that in that Quiet Room, other factors come into play for those who can only hack an hour.
1. Carbon Dioxide build-up from breathing, stuffiness and lack of free-flowing fresh air.
2. Claustrophobia.
3. Turn-over of people wanting to have a go and waiting in line.
4. Boredom

There's probably more.

If they are so bad that people can only hack 1 hour - maybe they should be installed in prisons as a torture chamber? Wink

They have been. Sensory deprivation is a well established method of controlling recalcitrant prisoners. The 'dumb cells' and silent prison at Port Arthur are an early example.

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Reply #4 - Feb 5^th, 2023 at 12:57pm

Belgarion wrote on Feb 5^th, 2023 at 12:49pm:

Jasin wrote on Feb 5^th, 2023 at 12:08pm:

I could easily do 8+ hours in them.
No different to being in a hyper-baric chamber.
You will find that in that Quiet Room, other factors come into play for those who can only hack an hour.
1. Carbon Dioxide build-up from breathing, stuffiness and lack of free-flowing fresh air.
2. Claustrophobia.
3. Turn-over of people wanting to have a go and waiting in line.
4. Boredom

There's probably more.

If they are so bad that people can only hack 1 hour - maybe they should be installed in prisons as a torture chamber? Wink

They have been. Sensory deprivation is a well established method of controlling recalcitrant prisoners. The 'dumb cells' and silent prison at Port Arthur are an early example.

Interesting.
Makes me wonder why Prisons themselves are put to that effect?

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Reply #5 - Feb 5^th, 2023 at 1:40pm

Jasin wrote on Feb 5^th, 2023 at 12:08pm:

I could easily do 8+ hours in them.
No different to being in a hyper-baric chamber.
You will find that in that Quiet Room, other factors come into play for those who can only hack an hour.
1. Carbon Dioxide build-up from breathing, stuffiness and lack of free-flowing fresh air.
2. Claustrophobia.
3. Turn-over of people wanting to have a go and waiting in line.
4. Boredom

There's probably more.

If they are so bad that people can only hack 1 hour - maybe they should be installed in prisons as a torture chamber? Wink

Have you ever experienced The Roaring Silence?

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Reply #7 - Feb 5^th, 2023 at 1:55pm

Jasin wrote on Feb 5^th, 2023 at 12:08pm:

I could easily do 8+ hours in them.
No different to being in a hyper-baric chamber.
You will find that in that Quiet Room, other factors come into play for those who can only hack an hour.
1. Carbon Dioxide build-up from breathing, stuffiness and lack of free-flowing fresh air.
2. Claustrophobia.
3. Turn-over of people wanting to have a go and waiting in line.
4. Boredom

There's probably more.

If they are so bad that people can only hack 1 hour - maybe they should be installed in prisons as a torture chamber? Wink

You frkn moron ...sensory deprivation has been used for decades Cheesy

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Reply #8 - Feb 5^th, 2023 at 3:34pm

Jasin wrote on Feb 5^th, 2023 at 1:45pm:

No. But I could do 8 hours at the least in the Roaring Silence Room, easy!

I have experienced a roaring silence twice. It's not just a quiet time.
It has a presence that grows. No wind, no birds, no 50Hz hum.
It's like I was lacking stability.

' ............ There was literally not one sound – everything was as still as death – not one car, or person, or slight noise from an animal, for many minutes. I was suddenly engulfed by this silence, it was like falling through an abyss. I struggled to cling on to something, to find some kind of sound to distract myself. The depth of the silence was both unnerving and bewildering. We rarely get to experience complete silence, and when we do we become uneasy and obsessive to distract our minds – like I did ........... '

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/loud-roar-deafening-silence-adnan-chilwan/

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Reply #9 - Feb 5^th, 2023 at 3:44pm

It's the audio version of Blue Water Vertigo which is visual.
Floating in the Big Blue with only the discipline of thought to remind oneself to watch which way the bubbles go to know which way is up. Everywhere is just empty blue water. People can sometimes find themselves spinning in all directions wondering which way is up without presence of mind.

It can also be like being in a Hyper-Baric chamber set to get you 'narked' off your titties and not losing the plot which is very hard to do. When I did my tour of duty as Guinea Pig in the Chambers - I did very well. It's a strange thing being in a chamber with others and watching them go off the charts. Even stranger being full blown narked and alone.

Some people can't even cope with a MIR scan.

No. I think I'll do pretty well in the 'fabricated' silence. Wink

I used to hire a old Colonial-time Gaol cell for meditation. It's just down the road. Haven't been for awhile. It's really quiet once you shut the heavy iron door. Wink

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MeisterEckhart Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 12201 Gender:	Re: Worlds quietest room Reply #10 - Feb 5^th, 2023 at 5:37pm When people are lost in silent places, they often report hearing traffic and people talking and start to walk towards it. The mind replaces the lack of external noise with what would normally be audible.
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Dnarever Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 58256 Here Gender:	Re: Worlds quietest room Reply #11 - Feb 5^th, 2023 at 6:23pm Standing wave rooms are also interesting. You stand in one square and you can hear perfectly but step into the next square and you hear nothing.
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Carl D Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9390 Rivervale, Perth Gender:	Re: Worlds quietest room Reply #12 - Feb 5^th, 2023 at 6:40pm Wonder how long I would be able to last in there with my mild tinnitus from working as a mechanic in tenpin bowling centres for 30 years? It doesn't bother me and I can usually just ignore it but I would never be able to experience 'true silence' anymore.
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Reply #13 - Feb 5^th, 2023 at 7:04pm

Carl D wrote on Feb 5^th, 2023 at 6:40pm:

Wonder how long I would be able to last in there with my mild tinnitus from working as a mechanic in tenpin bowling centres for 30 years?

It doesn't bother me and I can usually just ignore it but I would never be able to experience 'true silence' anymore.

Me either, same reason but not the same cause. The big BUT is that it's only true to an extent, your brain can tell the difference, one is outside noise and living in a pretty close to rural area it get's very quiet, you can hear the night. Another thing is it seems playing/making an outside sound of the same pitch lessens the one that's always there.

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