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SAILOR EXPERIENCES LIFECHANGING EVENT AFTER SPENDING AN HOUR IN THE QUIETEST ROOM IN THE WORLD

Published: 2024-11-27 18:34:48 Last Updated: 2024-11-28 08:31:48

You might think that you just need a little quiet, but how much is too much?
You will hear the blood pounding through your body after this sailor underwent one of the most mentally taxing experiences in history. It's chilling, but you can hear your lungs filling with air and the movement of bodily fluids for the first time.
The silent room at Orfield Laboratories in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, is referred to as the "room with no echoes" and has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the most silent place on earth. US Navy Petty Officer Nick Hair and NBC News reporter Gary Sanders visited what is scientifically known as the "anechoic chamber" as the sailor sought to resume his regular life.
Hair missed the calm of daily life, like walks in the woods close to his upstate New York home, after spending nine months on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier at sea with thousands of sailors on board and planes taking off and landing all the time.
But, in a return to normalcy, he asked to sit in the anechoic chamber alone in total silence because sleeping in a room with 100 other people for nine months should drive you crazy. He described the last nine months as "like living under a roller coaster," and that's all he wanted. Therefore, Hair decided to sit in and re-calibrate for more than an hour in the quietest room in the world, where you can "hear a pin drop."

"There's this intense pressure, sort of like you're in a car driving up a mountain and keep having to swallow and yawn to equalize the pressure, and I'm pretty sure what I hear is the blood flowing in my neck," Sanders, the reporter, said after revealing that he was only in there for five minutes.

Orfield Laboratories' founder and owner, Steve Orfield, stated: "The ear is both a loudspeaker and a microphone and when it's deprived of sound, it produces its own it creates its own oral hallucinations."

It turns out that the chamber's main purpose is not to accommodate people sitting around in it, but rather to assist in testing the sound level of items like vacuum cleaners and medical equipment.

Hair acknowledged after spending some time there that "it is becoming a little disorienting, it's interesting."

Despite this initial concern, the sailor lasted more than an hour, and after the session, Sanders came in to make sure he was able to stand up, stating that he felt "wobbly".

"Not right now, I can't do it right now, it's really interesting," Hair said in response to the reporter's question about whether he could still "hear the planes landing," confirming that it had been effectively "erased". Suddenly, the Naval Officer received his eagerly anticipated peace and quiet.

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