Poker player bets $100k he can last 30 days in pitch black solitary confinement
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#2If someone wants to experience something similar, sensory deprivation tanks could be an interesting option. I'd argue that the lack of tactile deprivation in the experiment made a huge difference.
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#3He might be alive but I imagine he might no longer be sane.
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#4Sounds great, unfortunately I can't afford the $100k.
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#5He might be alive but I imagine he might no longer be sane.
Thanks to my highly privileged information source, VSauce :D, I know that you start to have brain damage after 3 days
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#6This reminds me of the Peter Tripp stunt where he stayed awake for 8 days straight[1]. It sounds like a great idea but you never know what the side effects will be. I was in a sensory deprivation tank for an hour and I started seeing crazy things.
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#7He might be alive but I imagine he might no longer be sane.
From the evidence provided in the article, he seems relatively unscathed.
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#8If someone wants to experience something similar, sensory deprivation tanks could be an interesting option. I'd argue that the lack of tactile deprivation in the experiment made a huge difference.
I only did the floating tank thing once and have to say: lack of distractions and ensured lack of disturbance is nice, but it doesn't change meditating much.
(and I actually might prefer distant street noise over salt crystallizing on your face and condensation running down your face)
edit: and I don't like the dark for it, because I immediately see or imagine shapes. but they are also just a mere distraction.
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#9This reminds me of the water torture myth-busters episode where Adam's ability to withstand it was only limited by the capacity of his bladder. It's not so much the confinement or the water that makes you go crazy, it's everything else.