I want one, right around my bed.

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 !!

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. 

sharke


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

^^^ THIS!!!!

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! 

woosh woosh woosh....thump thump, thump thump...even breathing sounded loud.

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?

Don't think I've ever heard complete silence. Even as a kid I had a very small amount of tinnitus. Got much worse after years of excessive audio abuse in my teens and twenties though....

I would love it to stop, in a wistful sighing "what if" kind of a way, but other than that it doesn't really bother me any more. Unless of course I were in an anechoic chamber!

These days I take a magnesium supplement before I do any headphone work, because that has been shown to minimize hearing damage from noise. Vitamins A, C and E are protective too. 

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 remember the first time I went in a steam room at the gym, it got so steamy that all I could see was white. And for a while I felt like I was detached from my body, a bit like being on acid. However I managed to tell myself that I was actually in a room full of sweaty men and I came back down to earth pretty quickly.