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Less-Doughnut7686 t1_jbnt34b wrote

You know what's worse than Chinese water torture? Isolation.

Total complete isolation, locked away in a cell without any human contact. No natural light or external sound.

That or being stuck in that room that has no sound, the world's quietest room or whatever. So quiet you can hear your blood pumping in your ears.

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ThePasserbie t1_jbp8txg wrote

YouYuber Ryan Trahan did that for an hour.

I remember he said in a podcast that the whole thing about it "driving you insane in just 30 minutes" is a played up myth, and there's no danger at all, even though they dramatize it in the video.

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TheMilkmanCome t1_jbpabrf wrote

There is literally no danger in being sensationally isolated for an hour. People do it as a form of meditation. Anyone telling you otherwise is trying to sell you something

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Scaredycatkim t1_jbrn0ec wrote

It’s not the isolation that really does it. It’s having absolutely nothing to put your mind towards. Nothing to read, write, everything is monotonous, and there’s no sound at all. Maybe an hour is a stretch though

That’s why when people say solitary confinement is torture, and should be abolished…well, it is. The inmates that go into solitary confinement have things to read, write, they can hear other inmates or even officers. It isn’t torture. And then you have to take into account where the solitary is taking place.

I know someone that works in a max federal prison and inmates want to go to the super max nearby because officers are basically their butlers. There was a TedTalk saying how fucked up this specific prison was but the inmates in an interview are gonna say it’s horrible so they get more privileges.

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TheMilkmanCome t1_jbpao4e wrote

Neither isolation nor sensory deprivation can be dangerous to you in as little as 5 hours. Isolation takes several days minimum to cause actual damage unless the isolated is absolutely the most dependent person to ever exist.

Sensory isolation is the same. People regularly spend long chunks of time in sensory deprivation chambers as a sort of meditation

Chinese water torture, on the other hand, is absolutely torturous within a couple hours

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Dornenkraehe t1_jbp8d5c wrote

I can hear that in my bedroom at night if I don't put on music or something. It's apparently very quiet. Or my ears are weird.

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Blackshuckflame t1_jbpmoaw wrote

The second sounds a lot like working in an office building. I’ve been curious about the third! The anechoic chamber at Microsoft is not far from me. One of my friends managed to go visit years ago. I would imagine it’s like wearing the best earplugs in the world. Lol I use earplugs frequently as some sounds in general bother me like I can feel it in my ear when a helicopter is in the area before I can actually hear it at an audible level and earplugs happen to help cut that back. So hearing my own internal workings is pretty normal.

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physco219 t1_jbrpg4m wrote

I would like to try this. Have since I first heard of this room years ago.

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