The Quietest Place In The World Can Make You Go Crazy! Watch Video
The longest any person has stayed in here is 45 minutes.
We all at some point search for some quiet place to sit in. Surrounded by daily chaos we look for someplace to get our peace of mind. But have you experienced a silence that can actually take away your sanity? Well, there is a place in this world which is so quiet that you cannot stay there for long. The ‘anechoic chamber’ at Orfield Laboratories in South Minneapolis is known as World’s Quietest Room. The longest any person has stayed in here is 45 minutes. The silence literally gets on your nerves here.
This room is designed with 3.3-foot thickness fibreglass wedges, double insulated walls of steel and foot-thick concrete. The room is 99.99% sound absorbent, making the person visiting inside hearing every single noise of your body. The sound level in the room is -9 decibels compared to an average of 30 decibels which count as a quiet room. The silence is due to the sound absorbing walls, floor, and ceilings. In fact, the room is so quiet that one can hear their own body organs. Now, that’s a little scary! The word anechoic itself represents ‘no echo.’ So the room practically has no other noise than your own.
This room is used by many manufacturers to test the noise of different products. Mr Orfield explains, “It's used for formal product testing, for research into the sound of different things - heart valves, the sound of the display of a cellphone, the sound of a switch on a car dashboard.’ His team helps companies to determine what a particular sound should be like.
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So once you enter this room you are aware of your body’s senses which you otherwise tend to ignore. But in here, you can hear your heartbeats, blood flowing through your veins, all your bodily movements. Plus your own sound sounds a little different in here because it is the only place where you get the room effect. In the darkness, it can give some a hallucinatory effect, when the silence literally grows on you. The longest anyone has sat in this room is 45 minutes. The people from the team itself cannot spend more than 20-30 minutes inside this place.
Are you craving a silence so bad? Do you want to get know to your own sounds? Then probably you should pay a visit to Orfield Labs and seek a new level of peace of mind!
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