Silence That Drive You Crazy – Chamber In Which No One Can Stay Longer Than 45 Minutes (Updated)

OrfieldLaboratories – Experimental anechoic chamber absorbs 99.99% of all the sounds and the noise level is -9.4 dB.

If you sleep and you hear some sounds or noise, which disturb you and you would like to relax in absolute silence at least one time, believe that you wouldn´t enjoy it at all. This is confirmed by practically all visitors at the quietest place on the planet, which is an experimental anechoic chamber in OrfieldLaboratories in the US city of Minneapolis.

The room that absorbs 99.99% of all sounds has the noise level -9.4 dB, and our ears are not “built” for that (compared to a normal night in the bedroom is a strength of noise about 30 dB). Most people, who are visiting this special place start to suffer a few minutes later from acoustic hallucinations, claustrophobia, and panic.

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The Chamber, therefore, earned a mention in the Guinness Book of Records. Anything here doesn´t make any sound, does not beep, does not tap or vibrate. Although it sounds very good the first time, no one here alone in the dark did not stay longer than 45 minutes.

Steven Orfield, founder, and chairman of the company OrfieldLaboratories explained why:

“The quieter the room is, the more things you hear.”

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When a human becomes sound

In this quietest place on the planet, you hear your own heartbeat, you begin to perceive your lungs and stomach. In the anechoic chamber, you become the sound. Suddenly there is nothing that you can be oriented by. It’s very disturbing. Therefore, it is necessary to sit in the chamber. “

When the last light bulbs are turned off due to an absolute elimination of noise and a man finds himself in absolute darkness, he must rely on other senses. In the anechoic chamber, it is very difficult. “Normally, people in the movement are guided by the sounds. All auditory information in this room with echoes are missing, “said Orfield.

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The chamber is often used by companies that need to test the acoustic tones for mobile phones or in fittings. There was also recorded an album of Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks and occasionally is also used by astronauts to make an endurance test. “The universe is just like gigantic soundproof space,” said Orfield, who also works with NASA.

Can Silence Actually Drive You Crazy?

Many stories have circulated claiming the longest anyone has stayed in an ultra-quiet anechoic chamber is 45 minutes, the reason being any longer would drive you insane.

To Veritasium this sounded like unsubstantiated rubbish, like the claim the Great Wall is the only manmade structure visible from space. So he put his own psyche on the line, subjecting myself to over an hour of the most intense quiet on Earth. In the video below was not the quietest room on Earth (-9dB) but it is one of the quietest, and the truth is once you put a person inside, they are by far the loudest thing in there so the sound rating of the room is irrelevant.

Veritasium was not surprised to find that he could stay in there for as long as liked and feel perfectly fine. What was surprising is that his heartbeat was audible. You can hear it on the sound recording.

“Now I wasn’t consciously aware of the sound of my heart while in the room, but I was more aware of the feeling of it beating.” as he wrote.

We recommend watching this video with headphones on.

 

 

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