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A ROOM IN THE WORLD WHERE YOU CAN HEAR YOUR BODY SYSTEMS AS THE FUNCTION by davimiles(m): 7:09pm On Jul 24, 2015 |
They say silence is golden – but there’s a room in the U.S that’s so quiet it becomes unbearable after a short time. The longest that anyone has survived in the ‘anechoic chamber’ at Orfield Laboratories in South Minneapolis is just 45 minutes. It’s 99.99 per cent sound absorbent and holds the Guinness World Record for the world’s quietest place, but stay there too long and you may start hallucinating.‘When it’s quiet, ears will adapt. The quieter the room, the more things you hear. You'll hear your heart beating, sometimes you can hear your lungs, hear your stomach gurgling loudly. ‘In the anechoic chamber, you become the sound.’ And this is a very disorientating experience. Mr Orfield explained that it’s so disconcerting that sitting down is a must. He said: ‘How you orient yourself is through sounds you hear when you walk. In the anechnoic chamber, you don't have any cues. You take away the perceptual cues that allow you to balance and manoeuvre. If you're in there for half an hour, you have to be in a chair.’ The chamber is used by a multitude of manufacturers, which test how loud their products are.
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Re: A ROOM IN THE WORLD WHERE YOU CAN HEAR YOUR BODY SYSTEMS AS THE FUNCTION by IME1: 7:16pm On Jul 24, 2015 |
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