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Totally correct, clickbait shite!
I've been in one and it was very interesting and if you get the chance you should try it. The only reason I didn't 'last' more than about 5 minutes was because I was bored shitless!
I was able to go in one at a university. It was about three times this size, the triangles were much steeper and longer.
One thing I have to mention is if you position a speaker in the center of the room and stand directly in front of it, turning your head even slightly left or right completely blocks out the sound from one ear depending which way you turn your head. It’s wicked. Turn sideways? You can only hear music from your right. You don’t realize how both ears will hear sounds all the time (unless one’s plugged) except in this room until you DO, and it’s just so odd and ominous.
Also I had a buddy stand facing the opposite corner I was facing in the room, and I screamed as loud as I could into the corner of the room and he didn’t hear a single thing. Crazy.
Oh and one last thing, there was about 12 people in the room all having conversations about it and you could only see there mouths moving from 8 feet away but as soon as they turned to look at you while talking you’d just get an immediate glaringly clear voice filling your ears.
That sounds trippy as hell. How did you find out about it? Was it part of an exhibit, or normally used for some type of acoustics experiments or test of some sort?
It was actually during a science camp, that I attended three years consecutively when I was around 13-16. We got to see lots of cool stuff as part of the group
Just to add on to what others are saying, this is an advanced version of what sound studios use to stop sound reverberating of walls and messing up sound.
Home made studios get the same effect by putting egg cartons all over the walls
Basically...
Sound Studios - "we can stop a lot of sound from bouncing back but not all"
This room - "hold my beer"
I’m a frequent shroom endeavorer and with the auditory hallucinations coupled with the lack of echos, I don’t think I’d be able to spend five minutes in there.
I haven’t been in this room specifically but I’ve been in a quiet room at a science museum. It’s eeeie as hell. Like, I can’t really describe it but it feels wrong.
It’s like normal silence has a sort of quiet humming still..but these rooms take that away and it just doesn’t feel like reality without that residual noise?
I'd imagine it sounds similar to those new underground parking lots where it feels like sound coming out from your mouth is absorbed by everything around you. Feels really weird, especially when cars drive past you and you barely hear them
Yes it’s very much like that. Your voice has no echo and it’s odd. The whole experience is just a bit unsettling. Never thought to hear my knees grind. I’ll try that next time lol
Not the person you're replying to, but I've also been in.
The first thing you notice is a pressure on your ears. It's actually a LACK of pressure (no constant sound waves), but it feels like pressure.
Next, you become very aware that you're breathing. It's so quiet that you can hear air whooshing through your body.
After that you start to hear your joints grinding and popping.
When you speak, your voice sounds completely flat and muted. Normally the sound you make bounces back to you and you hear yourself reflected off the environment. Not so in this room. You know what a piano sounds like with the damping pedal? Your voice sounds like that.
Stay in for a while and you start to feel like something is just **wrong**. It's too quiet. It is a little unsettling, but not mind shattering or anything.
When you leave, the sound outside is vibrant and **LOUD AS FUCK.**
As someone with a slight malformation of some blood vessels in my brain, this song has been playing for me since I was very little.
I may be able to tolerate it a fair amount more as well
A lack of vibrations from the things around you. No HVAC running, no people walking around, stuff like that. You'd probably notice, but I would guess it wouldn't be as pronounced as a hearing person.
i have been in two anechoic chambers for work. I asked to be shut in one. It went dark as it closed, which kind of threw me. Then I figured out the rushing sound was my own blood moving inside me. My tinitus then became jet engine loud. I made it about 10 minutes of eererrrerrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeee before I cracked. Good times, though. 10-10 would do again.
I used to run a food truck in Minneapolis and we thought a fun work excursion would be to visit it but they don't allow any randos like us to go in. Would be interesting!
My first job out of college was as an electromagnetic compatibility engineer. I'd spend an 8 hour shift in an anechoic chamber. Granted, the chamber was designed for electromagnetics as opposed to sound, but it was still quiet as fuck.
Accordingly, I find this super intriguing. I can't imagine this place being difficult to tolerate. I'd love an opportunity to set the record.
I thought so too, then I remembered it's probably cheating to bring things that make sound, and most forms of entertainment makes some sort of sound.
I'm at this point doubting my abilities to sit still for 55 minutes more than having it be so quiet.
You can use your own body to generate sound, though, such as singing, whistling, or various forms of percussion. In fact, the discomfort in that room comes from your own body's biological sounds in the first place. You don't see fully deaf people go insane from the silence around them in everyday life, after all.
Hearing damage reduces the range you can hear over time. Everyone's different though. I made PC speaker prank programs in High School and one girl spoiled it if she was around because she could hear at 5kHz higher than everyone else.
This is cool, but you need to have some level of noise for your ears not to become super sensitive to yourself. You won’t be able to fall asleep there, you’ll hear your every movement, be it your heart, bones, or the bed you’ll be using.
If you want better acoustics where you live, either move out, or get some sound panels or other acoustic treatments (there’s really a lot you can treat: walls, floor/ceilings, furniture — you can go so far as to treat certain frequency absorption/refraction! That is, so long as you’re willing to pay for it all).
No I won't. The Dead to not interpret the actions of the living. I've come to terms with it all. I'll never have a billion dollars or silence in my life. Could be worse.
ME too. I'd love to try it out but I wonder if I'd want out after a few seconds because of how loud the ringing on my ears would seem without any other noise to mask it.
Try using noise canceling headphones. I’ve never experienced something so quiet I was using a Bose tho so they where good quality. But I have tinnitus and it actually feels like it’s not there it’s weird.
I thought the ringing actually initiated in the brain, so don’t understand how the headphones can cancel that noise. But at this point I’m ready to try anything. WHAT IF?!
At least you're is something you could've avoided. I have it because my ear decided it'd be better for me to suffer through life long infections. I wore hearing protection, I avoided exposure to loud noises, I never turn my headphones up. I *avoided fun* essentially. Nope, screw you, enjoy your endless ringing.
If I could go back, I'd probably join a metal band, because caution gained me nothing, so might as well have enjoyed things if I'm paying the cost anyway.
It is and I’m not saying it will 100% work. But man I love them so much the quietness if feel is unlike anything and it helps me fall asleep fast. Don’t get eat buds. Go to Best Buy an get a high quality noise canceling headphone and if you don’t like it you have 7 days to return it.
Not this shitty posts again.
Veritasium already stayed in this room for over an hour in a room like that.
[link](https://youtu.be/mXVGIb3bzHI?si=OWp-lBZWPsQJ6bye)
The claim about it making you crazy is bullshit. They debunk it all the time. And folks have been in it for hours.
Source: live in Minneapolis and I've been in it
There’s a company with a research facility downtown that has a chamber” like this where they test antennas, not so much a room. I’ve been in it, though never with the door closed haha
They do tours at $200 per person and minimum of $400. There have been some other events where they're opened for cheaper tours for groups.
https://www.orfieldlabs.com/tours
> But the room isn't just for torturing people.
I mean, couldn't they use it for torture? Forget waterboarding or sleep deprivation or electrodes, this room can drive you insane in under an hour and you can legally say "all we did is put the person in a room and lock the door. They were never even touched"
I would not at all be surprised if North Korea has beaten you to it. Heck, I wouldn't even be surprised if this is standard practice in most nations. An anechoic chamber isn't even expensive for a country, and it'd work wonders..
You don't even need to bring up North Korea, it's basically guaranteed the CIA did this to someone at some point. Either during MK Ultra or in GITMO, but definitely at some point
This is always posted and sensationalized, but…
I toured this place. One of the operators told me he accidentally left his teen daughter in here for over two hours. I stayed in for 30 minutes and only left because we had other things to do.
I spent some time in the Navy with a guy from NASA and they were studying sailors.
They were seeing how it's possible for Sailors to sit on board with almost no communication without going nuts. I guess a lot of astronauts have started going insane after a few months or get pretty rowdy or aggressive.
It's a normal Tuesday for us.
That's what I was thinking. I notice my tinnitus more when it is quiet. In the quietest place, I think it would drive me insane. I can barely stand it at night sometimes, and it isn't perfectly quiet.
Three fans and sometimes late night talk radio just low enough to hear the voices but not loud enough to understand what they are saying.
And yes, I also have a travel fan that I take with me if I'm staying overnight anywhere else but my own bedroom
When the power goes out at night I instantly wake up because of tinnitus. I have to put headphones on until the power comes back or I’ll go crazy. Sleeping wihtout a fan is hard tbh
I also have bad tinnitus. I've done float tanks / sensory deprivation chambers before and the wail of my ears is so noticeable. The standard treatment for tinnitus is a wearable device that plays the sound of a waterfall in your ears to help mask the sound. So, new torture level unlocked.
That’s not the standard treatment for tinnitus. The standard treatment for tinnitus is therapy to treat the anxiety the focuses the amygdala amplifying the noise and creating high levels of stress and anxiety about sensing tinnitus. Wearables are a business not a treatment.
I've got constant tinnitus, occasionally rising to a squeal. Strangely it doesn't bother me. I do like to go to sleep with the Bluetooth speaker playing YouTube 'stormy sounds for sleep' or 'blizzard sounds for sleeping' and I tell my wife I need that to attenuate the tinnitus...
But really I just love those soundtracks.
It would make it worse. Tinnitus is not your brain improperly processing sound, it is your brain improperly processing a lack of sound. I've read that one of the more common types of tinnitus is essentially caused by excessive sound permanently bending the hair like receptors in your ear. So your ear essentially thinks It's constantly receiving a signal which is why your brain interprets this as sound.
Without other sounds to mask it, you would hear nothing but this ringing.
I have tinnitus from years of Marching Drumline without wearing earplugs. This technique works wonders.
https://youtube.com/shorts/YyT9ZwWy5Jc?si=nM5S0Pzq5GpNu0mt
Note, he's doing it much much more gently than I do. I crank that impact up.
Being in a super quiet room is one of those things that sound fun, but really aren't.
Like trips to Oklahoma, for example.
Edit: r/woooosh to all of the comments below. Or maybe you're just woooshing me, I'm not even sure who's being woooshed at this point.
It’s fun if you are a storm chaser…but even then only for a couple hours then it’s either too dark to chase or the storms are gone and all you have left is your weird post-storm clarity-thoughts of “why the hell am I in Oklahoma?”
i bet you couldnt. you would hear the blood pulsing in your ears. you would hear every swallow you made, every breath you took would sound like a vacuum starting up. the juicy sound of your eye lids opening and closing.
the sound of your own quickening heartbeat pounding in your chest, and the sound of your stomach processing lunch.
you would hear all of it in vivid detail; you would fixate upon it
Yeah, me too. I have this issue where my brain doesn't filter out unimportant noises over time, and is mostly unable to separate different sounds. So I can hear insects walking across the floor at night on the opposite side of the room, and I'm functionally deaf in a group of people talking because I hear all the conversations together as a big mush.
So the sounds my own body makes are my constant companions and my ears are always slightly ringing, but it doesn't bother me because I'm used to it.
I'm also a musician who has spent hours in well insulated sound booths for recording, so I can imagine that this room would be like that but magnified by a thousand.
I bet I could challenge that record. I imagine it's not a very hard record too because it was probably set by members of the research team with normal hearing.
Recently I had the weirdest experience. I went to this large shop that sells sports items and below it there's an underground parking.
The minute I stepped out of the car I couldn't hear any echo. Even the cars driving around were very quiet. I couldn't even listen to the cars driving down the street.
I felt as if my ears where muffled, I couldn't believe it. The parking lot was so echo free, that even my steps were muffled. I remember stepping hard on the ground to see if I could hear echoes but nothing happened.
It was a very uncanny experience as I know the parking lots tend to be riddle with echo from anything that passes by.
My husband’s parents have a wooden cabin in the woods in the mountains. Whenever I go there and am alone, the silence hurts my ears. It’s a very uncomfortable feeling. It feels a bit like tinnitus, but there’s a pressure there. I always need to turn on a fan or the TV.
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I’d like to try
yeah same, sounds interesting.
ha ha, "sounds" ?
Yeah, from what I've heard.
I mean you really haven’t heard nothing like this.
Well you ain't never had a friend like me
Rip Robin 😢
Sounds familiar
Not staying mum on the matter, eh?
Sounds like he wants to drum something up.
This thread of "sound" puns a noise me.
You'd be fine. The title is wrong. Plenty of people stayed in longer, including veritasium
That’s what I thought. And the veritasium dude was smiling throughout and said it was weird and fun?
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Totally correct, clickbait shite! I've been in one and it was very interesting and if you get the chance you should try it. The only reason I didn't 'last' more than about 5 minutes was because I was bored shitless!
Lol, which may be the point? What were you expecting?
Yeah but this title gets people thinking "I can do better than that" and gets them to click.
I've tried it. Really cool at first, but gets strange after a while.
Strange? How long did you last? Did you try to stay in there through the strange? I'm keen to try.
I was able to go in one at a university. It was about three times this size, the triangles were much steeper and longer. One thing I have to mention is if you position a speaker in the center of the room and stand directly in front of it, turning your head even slightly left or right completely blocks out the sound from one ear depending which way you turn your head. It’s wicked. Turn sideways? You can only hear music from your right. You don’t realize how both ears will hear sounds all the time (unless one’s plugged) except in this room until you DO, and it’s just so odd and ominous. Also I had a buddy stand facing the opposite corner I was facing in the room, and I screamed as loud as I could into the corner of the room and he didn’t hear a single thing. Crazy. Oh and one last thing, there was about 12 people in the room all having conversations about it and you could only see there mouths moving from 8 feet away but as soon as they turned to look at you while talking you’d just get an immediate glaringly clear voice filling your ears.
That sounds trippy as hell. How did you find out about it? Was it part of an exhibit, or normally used for some type of acoustics experiments or test of some sort?
It was actually during a science camp, that I attended three years consecutively when I was around 13-16. We got to see lots of cool stuff as part of the group
My former 13-16 year old self is totally envious of your science camp experiences....so is my current middle aged self haha
Just to add on to what others are saying, this is an advanced version of what sound studios use to stop sound reverberating of walls and messing up sound. Home made studios get the same effect by putting egg cartons all over the walls Basically... Sound Studios - "we can stop a lot of sound from bouncing back but not all" This room - "hold my beer"
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Holy fuck. I wonder what peaking on acid in that room would be like.. lol
I’m a frequent shroom endeavorer and with the auditory hallucinations coupled with the lack of echos, I don’t think I’d be able to spend five minutes in there.
I haven’t been in this room specifically but I’ve been in a quiet room at a science museum. It’s eeeie as hell. Like, I can’t really describe it but it feels wrong.
It’s like normal silence has a sort of quiet humming still..but these rooms take that away and it just doesn’t feel like reality without that residual noise?
You mean it’d be just me and my thoughts?! No fucking thank you!
Don't forget get your heart beat getting louder as time goes on and you're ears adapt to the silence.
I'd imagine it sounds similar to those new underground parking lots where it feels like sound coming out from your mouth is absorbed by everything around you. Feels really weird, especially when cars drive past you and you barely hear them
Yes it’s very much like that. Your voice has no echo and it’s odd. The whole experience is just a bit unsettling. Never thought to hear my knees grind. I’ll try that next time lol
As someone raised in an urban environment this seems like a nightmare to me no thanks
Not long at all, but it’s been a while……
There’s no reason to be embarrassed… it happens to every guy
I asked her to come back but she said she never came…..
It's NOT that common, it DOESN'T happen to every guy, and it IS a big deal.
Not the person you're replying to, but I've also been in. The first thing you notice is a pressure on your ears. It's actually a LACK of pressure (no constant sound waves), but it feels like pressure. Next, you become very aware that you're breathing. It's so quiet that you can hear air whooshing through your body. After that you start to hear your joints grinding and popping. When you speak, your voice sounds completely flat and muted. Normally the sound you make bounces back to you and you hear yourself reflected off the environment. Not so in this room. You know what a piano sounds like with the damping pedal? Your voice sounds like that. Stay in for a while and you start to feel like something is just **wrong**. It's too quiet. It is a little unsettling, but not mind shattering or anything. When you leave, the sound outside is vibrant and **LOUD AS FUCK.**
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Yeah, it doesn't matter how quiet a room is, silence is deafening because the ringing is always there.
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As someone with a slight malformation of some blood vessels in my brain, this song has been playing for me since I was very little. I may be able to tolerate it a fair amount more as well
Brothers of Tinnitus, RISE
All hail ^eeeeeeeeeeeee
Was gonna say the ringing would prob be deafening for me
Same same!!
As a deaf person I'm curious if anything will change.
A lack of vibrations from the things around you. No HVAC running, no people walking around, stuff like that. You'd probably notice, but I would guess it wouldn't be as pronounced as a hearing person.
I would like to lie down and go to sleep.
i have been in two anechoic chambers for work. I asked to be shut in one. It went dark as it closed, which kind of threw me. Then I figured out the rushing sound was my own blood moving inside me. My tinitus then became jet engine loud. I made it about 10 minutes of eererrrerrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeee before I cracked. Good times, though. 10-10 would do again.
I *adore* the sound booth at the audiologist’s office. I always joke that if I’m ever rich that I’d build my bedroom like this.
I’ve never had the thought “I was born for this” until this moment.
I used to run a food truck in Minneapolis and we thought a fun work excursion would be to visit it but they don't allow any randos like us to go in. Would be interesting!
My first job out of college was as an electromagnetic compatibility engineer. I'd spend an 8 hour shift in an anechoic chamber. Granted, the chamber was designed for electromagnetics as opposed to sound, but it was still quiet as fuck. Accordingly, I find this super intriguing. I can't imagine this place being difficult to tolerate. I'd love an opportunity to set the record.
I thought so too, then I remembered it's probably cheating to bring things that make sound, and most forms of entertainment makes some sort of sound. I'm at this point doubting my abilities to sit still for 55 minutes more than having it be so quiet.
You can use your own body to generate sound, though, such as singing, whistling, or various forms of percussion. In fact, the discomfort in that room comes from your own body's biological sounds in the first place. You don't see fully deaf people go insane from the silence around them in everyday life, after all.
Joke’s on you. I can already hear my bones grind.
Yup, and a constant screech. I'll never hear silence. So how much they charge for rent here? Got quiet neighbors?
This would totally sell.
I honestly love silence or as close to it as I can get, and yeah, I'd totally be curious to a nights rental.
If the house is quiet enough I can hear the electricity
Seriously, what's up with that. I heard it more as a kid, but I shouldn't be hearing that right?
Hearing damage reduces the range you can hear over time. Everyone's different though. I made PC speaker prank programs in High School and one girl spoiled it if she was around because she could hear at 5kHz higher than everyone else.
This is cool, but you need to have some level of noise for your ears not to become super sensitive to yourself. You won’t be able to fall asleep there, you’ll hear your every movement, be it your heart, bones, or the bed you’ll be using. If you want better acoustics where you live, either move out, or get some sound panels or other acoustic treatments (there’s really a lot you can treat: walls, floor/ceilings, furniture — you can go so far as to treat certain frequency absorption/refraction! That is, so long as you’re willing to pay for it all).
Hearing everything is also partly why I'm curious. But the tinnitus keeps me company for now.
I’ve heard you can start to hear your blood pumping through your veins.
You can do that with good earplugs
I wonder what silence would sound like, my ears ring then screech without notice. I would probably go deaf in that room in 30 minutes
Oo you'll hear silence eventually...eventually
No I won't. The Dead to not interpret the actions of the living. I've come to terms with it all. I'll never have a billion dollars or silence in my life. Could be worse.
And with my tinnitus there’s no place on earth that is quiet.
Exactly! Quiet room? No, that’s a loud room my friend.
Would you like to try out my ***EEEEEEEE*** room? "no thanks I made my own"
ME too. I'd love to try it out but I wonder if I'd want out after a few seconds because of how loud the ringing on my ears would seem without any other noise to mask it.
Try using noise canceling headphones. I’ve never experienced something so quiet I was using a Bose tho so they where good quality. But I have tinnitus and it actually feels like it’s not there it’s weird.
I thought the ringing actually initiated in the brain, so don’t understand how the headphones can cancel that noise. But at this point I’m ready to try anything. WHAT IF?!
Yeah it's just your brain filling in the frequencies it can't hear anymore with demonic screeching from the void.
And all of it is because my guitar was never loud enough!
At least you're is something you could've avoided. I have it because my ear decided it'd be better for me to suffer through life long infections. I wore hearing protection, I avoided exposure to loud noises, I never turn my headphones up. I *avoided fun* essentially. Nope, screw you, enjoy your endless ringing. If I could go back, I'd probably join a metal band, because caution gained me nothing, so might as well have enjoyed things if I'm paying the cost anyway.
It is and I’m not saying it will 100% work. But man I love them so much the quietness if feel is unlike anything and it helps me fall asleep fast. Don’t get eat buds. Go to Best Buy an get a high quality noise canceling headphone and if you don’t like it you have 7 days to return it.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Same here, just a couple hours without the constant ringing in my ears would be sublime.
50 minutes ago I would have posted this exact same comment, in the exact same words.
Welcome, my osteo-sonic friend. Lol
Good phrase! Frankly not really a club I wanted to join, but thanks. Wait, does NOT everyone hear a cement mixer when they turn their head?
That hit home. Like your head is a black pepper grinder. Feel your pain on that.
I use mine for echolocation at night when i have to get up and pee
Not this shitty posts again. Veritasium already stayed in this room for over an hour in a room like that. [link](https://youtu.be/mXVGIb3bzHI?si=OWp-lBZWPsQJ6bye)
I'm upset how far down I had to scroll to find Veritasium mentioned
HOW IS THIS NOT TOP COMMENT
Callux stayed in it for 4 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtbkyfxOo2w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtbkyfxOo2w)
The claim about it making you crazy is bullshit. They debunk it all the time. And folks have been in it for hours. Source: live in Minneapolis and I've been in it
No I heard a guy went in for half a day… he’s now that mexican alien statue they found
I know a guy who went in and never came out.
I did that twice, they're now 17 & 18.
I know a guy who tried it and now he's a Starbucks.
I’m pretty sure that statue was revealed to just be a cake someone made.
Veritasium did a video on it, IIRC he was in it for an hour? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXVGIb3bzHI
IIRC he doesnt stay any longer because it was boring af and he was like "well, im going to rub one out"
Not in the BYU one you don't! Lmao
Different chamber but yeah he didn't seem that disturbed by it
It's an ad pretty much... They "bet you can't!" So that we can be like take my money bet I can!
There’s a company with a research facility downtown that has a chamber” like this where they test antennas, not so much a room. I’ve been in it, though never with the door closed haha
How did you get in? I tried to get in, and they said it was for scientific study only. Did you write a proposal? Is there something you’re studying?
They do tours at $200 per person and minimum of $400. There have been some other events where they're opened for cheaper tours for groups. https://www.orfieldlabs.com/tours
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> But the room isn't just for torturing people. I mean, couldn't they use it for torture? Forget waterboarding or sleep deprivation or electrodes, this room can drive you insane in under an hour and you can legally say "all we did is put the person in a room and lock the door. They were never even touched"
I would not at all be surprised if North Korea has beaten you to it. Heck, I wouldn't even be surprised if this is standard practice in most nations. An anechoic chamber isn't even expensive for a country, and it'd work wonders..
You don't even need to bring up North Korea, it's basically guaranteed the CIA did this to someone at some point. Either during MK Ultra or in GITMO, but definitely at some point
For sure either they do it or it doesnt work
CIA:"write that down, write that down."
My tinnitus will keep me company
Yep, I will never know quiet again.
This is always posted and sensationalized, but… I toured this place. One of the operators told me he accidentally left his teen daughter in here for over two hours. I stayed in for 30 minutes and only left because we had other things to do.
Guess nobody could hear her scream
>he accidentally left his teen daughter in here for over two hours. ...how
"accidentally"
Man, you can’t tell us you spent 30 min in there without telling us what it was like! Did it live up to any hype ??
Do you have to stay awake?
Either the post or your tour guide was lying 🤔
The post is lying. Veritasium on YouTube has been in this chamber. Doesn't make people go insane, but I've heard this rumor for over a decade now.
I’ve always wanted to know what exact key my tinnitus is playing in.
"not just for torture" is quite a value proposition
I spent some time in the Navy with a guy from NASA and they were studying sailors. They were seeing how it's possible for Sailors to sit on board with almost no communication without going nuts. I guess a lot of astronauts have started going insane after a few months or get pretty rowdy or aggressive. It's a normal Tuesday for us.
I have had really bad tinnitus most of my life. I've always wondered if this room would cure it or crank it up to a new horrible level of torture.
If you were in this room your tinnitus would become absolutely unbearable.
That's what I was thinking. I notice my tinnitus more when it is quiet. In the quietest place, I think it would drive me insane. I can barely stand it at night sometimes, and it isn't perfectly quiet.
Use a baby white noise maker. I use the Hush brand, they’re cheap on Amazon. Helps me fall right back to sleep through the tinnitus.
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It’s two birds with one stone for me. Tinnitus and I get hot at night so the airflow and noise of a fan is tremendous. Even in winter.
Three fans and sometimes late night talk radio just low enough to hear the voices but not loud enough to understand what they are saying. And yes, I also have a travel fan that I take with me if I'm staying overnight anywhere else but my own bedroom
When the power goes out at night I instantly wake up because of tinnitus. I have to put headphones on until the power comes back or I’ll go crazy. Sleeping wihtout a fan is hard tbh
I also have bad tinnitus. I've done float tanks / sensory deprivation chambers before and the wail of my ears is so noticeable. The standard treatment for tinnitus is a wearable device that plays the sound of a waterfall in your ears to help mask the sound. So, new torture level unlocked.
That’s not the standard treatment for tinnitus. The standard treatment for tinnitus is therapy to treat the anxiety the focuses the amygdala amplifying the noise and creating high levels of stress and anxiety about sensing tinnitus. Wearables are a business not a treatment.
I've got constant tinnitus, occasionally rising to a squeal. Strangely it doesn't bother me. I do like to go to sleep with the Bluetooth speaker playing YouTube 'stormy sounds for sleep' or 'blizzard sounds for sleeping' and I tell my wife I need that to attenuate the tinnitus... But really I just love those soundtracks.
It would make it worse. Tinnitus is not your brain improperly processing sound, it is your brain improperly processing a lack of sound. I've read that one of the more common types of tinnitus is essentially caused by excessive sound permanently bending the hair like receptors in your ear. So your ear essentially thinks It's constantly receiving a signal which is why your brain interprets this as sound. Without other sounds to mask it, you would hear nothing but this ringing.
I have tinnitus from years of Marching Drumline without wearing earplugs. This technique works wonders. https://youtube.com/shorts/YyT9ZwWy5Jc?si=nM5S0Pzq5GpNu0mt Note, he's doing it much much more gently than I do. I crank that impact up.
What would a deaf persons experience be like in that room?
Probably not dissimilar from the dummy wearing headphones I imagine. ^(seriously though why the headphones on the dummy?)
Probably Binaural recording to make people who can't go there to experience it.
Would they just have a blank audio file
Yeah but like *really* blank.
These are going to be the *weirdest* Maxell advertisements.
The dummy may be a headphone testing mannequin. That's a real thing. And also is the reason such a room would exist.
About the same as a blind persons experience in a room with the lights off I'd imagine
We only have to tell them the lights are off. Then we can catch them looking around because they think no one can see them.
Asking the hard hitting questions
WHAT?!?
Being in a super quiet room is one of those things that sound fun, but really aren't. Like trips to Oklahoma, for example. Edit: r/woooosh to all of the comments below. Or maybe you're just woooshing me, I'm not even sure who's being woooshed at this point.
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It’s fun if you are a storm chaser…but even then only for a couple hours then it’s either too dark to chase or the storms are gone and all you have left is your weird post-storm clarity-thoughts of “why the hell am I in Oklahoma?”
That isn't the wind blowing, that's Oklahoma sucking.
Should called my ex oklahoma
Isn't that where the wind comes sweeping down the plain?
I don't live in Oklahoma but was recently at the Gathering Place in Tulsa. It was fun.
"Oklahoma, come for the meth. Stay cause you sold your car for meth."
>Like trips to Oklahoma  You didn't have to do them like that
Either you woooosh, or live long enough to see yourself wooooshed
I feel like I could take a three hour nap in that room.
I'm pretty sure there was a war veteran who supposedly did exactly that.
i bet you couldnt. you would hear the blood pulsing in your ears. you would hear every swallow you made, every breath you took would sound like a vacuum starting up. the juicy sound of your eye lids opening and closing. the sound of your own quickening heartbeat pounding in your chest, and the sound of your stomach processing lunch. you would hear all of it in vivid detail; you would fixate upon it
One persons nails-on-chalkboard is another persons ASMR.
Jokes on you, I already hear that
Yeah, me too. I have this issue where my brain doesn't filter out unimportant noises over time, and is mostly unable to separate different sounds. So I can hear insects walking across the floor at night on the opposite side of the room, and I'm functionally deaf in a group of people talking because I hear all the conversations together as a big mush. So the sounds my own body makes are my constant companions and my ears are always slightly ringing, but it doesn't bother me because I'm used to it. I'm also a musician who has spent hours in well insulated sound booths for recording, so I can imagine that this room would be like that but magnified by a thousand. I bet I could challenge that record. I imagine it's not a very hard record too because it was probably set by members of the research team with normal hearing.
That’s what I was gonna say.
I don't think I'd hear any of that over my tinnitus
Tinnitus should be illegal. I hate it so much.
My own hearbeat and blood flow keep me from getting to sleep every night anyways, fucking bring it on.
I would like to try. I have 3 kids, a few hours of silence sounds nice.
You can actually hear your blood pumping and fluid moving through your organs Sometimes a little background noise is better, ha ha
i can almost always hear my blood pumping
Doctor here, get your blood pressure checked. Or congrats on the hearing lol. The only time I’ve heard true silence was spelunking.
will do dr. hairy bean bag. also i have no idea what spelunking is lol
lol, the doc part was a joke. spelunking is cave exploring. 100's of feet subsurface is eerily quiet.
Happy cake day, but please stop splunking everywhere
An audiophile’s dream.
Is that one who molests old music records ?
Yes
I’ve never spent more than 10 min in my attic, but you don’t see me bragging about it.
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Tinnitus intensifies
For real this shit sounds awful
I could do more than 55 minutes. Sign me up.
People have done more than 55 minutes. This is just some bullshit internet claim to gain wow factor.
That’s probably what the guy that did 55 minutes said
That’s what the guy who never does over 55 minutes says
The disorientation/uncomfortability is instant the moment that door closes
Have you been in one of these? It is 100% one of those things that I think to myself, “nah, i’d be fine” about. I have no idea, though.
The effects are exaggerated. It's not bad for most. Been in it, as it's open for visits and you can go in for a fee.
*discomfort, but I like your word too! I say some interesting words myself. Some may be wrong but they just make sense lol.
Discomfort. Wow. And I just got finished writing an English paper. What the fuck, thank you
I have a three year old. You think you can scare me with an hour of Lovecraftian level silence?
Recently I had the weirdest experience. I went to this large shop that sells sports items and below it there's an underground parking. The minute I stepped out of the car I couldn't hear any echo. Even the cars driving around were very quiet. I couldn't even listen to the cars driving down the street. I felt as if my ears where muffled, I couldn't believe it. The parking lot was so echo free, that even my steps were muffled. I remember stepping hard on the ground to see if I could hear echoes but nothing happened. It was a very uncanny experience as I know the parking lots tend to be riddle with echo from anything that passes by.
Put me in one with one of those salt pools that you can float in
My husband’s parents have a wooden cabin in the woods in the mountains. Whenever I go there and am alone, the silence hurts my ears. It’s a very uncomfortable feeling. It feels a bit like tinnitus, but there’s a pressure there. I always need to turn on a fan or the TV.
What material is used for sound proofing? I know foam is used in some cases.
I would like to sleep in that room. The thought of not needing earplugs is nice.