It's impossible to stay longer than 45 minutes, or you'll go insane. And now imagine that in total blackness. I think even 5 minutes would be a hell of a torture.
Strange, I seem to recall that I'd you spend too much time, you'll get splitting headaches and extreme nausea, not go insane
I might be thinking of something else though
Both of those facts are false. You can stay as long as you like. Until you get bored. There's literally a guy on youtube who sat in it for two hours and suffered no ill effects.
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But it was on the internet
IT MUST BE TRUE!!!
(Jk, I stand corrected)
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· 8 years ago
thank you, I was going to say mialinay that you should go watch Veritasium's video about it. He stayed there for a couple hours and no such insanity occured
Because it's not really torture. Youtube it. It's not inherently unpleasant to be sensory deprived unlike waterboarding which is definitely unpleasant.
I read that you start hearing voices after being in that super quiet room for 45 minutes. So you would definitely go insane after a few days or even hours if you had any psychological problems to begin with.
If you want to argue that way, then solitary confinement is also torture because you have no interaction with other humans and since people are naturally social creatures ect...
And then you would say prisons are torture because people are free spirits and you're picking us up and inhibiting our stuff and things and stuff.
There's a difference between a perfectly stable guy going in there prepared knowing what he's in for for a couple hours, and waking up there not knowing anything about how u got there and being trapped, no even knowing how long you've been in there. And I doubt most people that would get this kind of punishment are in a perfect mental state...
no, and not really. The only difference is that instead of annoyingly bright lights it's annoyingly dark. And instead of an echo chamber where every time you sneeze it reverberates for fifteen seconds it's silent.
And I think we're overexaggerating the effects of dark and silence. You know what gets to people? The prison part. The culture, the people, the [things] that happen in prison. Solitary confinement is just a little part of it that IIRC, relatively few go through.
The problem is that you get extreme human interaction and then extreme solitude. Being in that crazy cycle for a long time might fuck you up pretty badly.
I'd actually like to spend some time in there. Pure darkness and silence is something I've wanted to experience for a while, and if that existed I wouldn't even have to risk it being for eternity.
This would actually be registered as torture as anechoic chambers, when constructed to such a quality as the one pictured, cause the person inside to be able to hear their own blood flow, heart beat and other bodily functions including the small ones happening in the mechanisms of the skull causing the inmate to go insane within an hour. combined with the trauma of waking up and being legally blind id say closer to 30 minutes. This is literally taking away 2 of this persons main senses.
Yup. Even solitary confinement is in itself a harsh punishment, especially if that person has depression or anxiety (remember what they did to Chelsea Manning?) and this is that times 1000.
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· 7 years ago
Smh y'all people believe anything you read, it does not make you go insane
*lowers potato*
Now I kinda want to see.
I might be thinking of something else though
I dunno. Maybe both? ^^'
But it was on the internet
IT MUST BE TRUE!!!
(Jk, I stand corrected)
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The brittle thing sucks though
And then you would say prisons are torture because people are free spirits and you're picking us up and inhibiting our stuff and things and stuff.
And I can't ride skateboards.