Sitting in an Anechoic Chamber

This is an article about a guy who contacted a testing company and requested to sit in their anechoic chamber (after serving aboard a navy ship).  I thought the article was interesting because the article talked a little bit about the testing that is done on consumer products (things like vacuum cleaners).  Basically, they say consumers demand quite appliances but they can’t be made too quite because the consumer needs to have the security that the product is doing something.

Before we moved, we had remodeled our kitchen with a top of the line dishwasher that was completely silent and all of the indicator lights were inside of the unit (on the top of the door).  It drove my wife crazy because she had to open it to see if it was running all the time (because I would randomly start a load of dishes).

http://todaynews.today.com/_news/2012/11/23/15385024-the-sound-of-silence-sailor-finds-peace-in-worlds-quietest-room?lite

MAKE SOME NOIZ!!!

For those of us with tinnitus, an absolutely silent chamber is our idea of hell! 

I had this for a couple weeks:





When you walked in it seemed like sound was being vacuumed out of your head.

Jonbouy


MAKE SOME NOIZ!!!

Done.


But I wuz told to stop it.

So I did.

I want one, right around my bed.

djwayne


I was in one one time..the silence is unreal, you can hear the blood running thru your viens and your heart beating...there was one standard 60-100 watt light bulb in the chamber, and you could hear it humming.  Everything else was so quiet, it sounded loud !!

You'd think they would do something about that bulb. 

Bristol_Jonesey

sharke


For those of us with tinnitus, an absolutely silent chamber is our idea of hell! 

^^^ THIS!!!!

Right? People talking about hearing the blood move around inside them....HAH! 

Bristol_Jonesey

sharke


For those of us with tinnitus, an absolutely silent chamber is our idea of hell! 

^^^ THIS!!!!

Yeah, first thought that came to my mind too.
 
Forget the room, how do I get ME to be quiet?

Remember the isolation tanks that were all the rage in the 70's? The idea was to remove as much sensory input as possible by shutting out light and sound, while floating in salt water for weightlessness. People would go in for hours and swear that only a few minutes had passed. Others described psychedelic and/or transcendental experiences. The only negative side-effect was wrinkly skin, and perhaps missed appointments.

Sounds pretty cool.

I once dropped acid in a sauna. Maybe it was something like that. Except for the sweaty men part - it was just me and a girl named Beth who owned a VW bus with flowers painted on the side. The flowers were painted on the bus, not Beth.

I once smoked crack in a tanning salon....oh OK then no I didn't 

do you hear Beth calling?  can you come home right now?