Have been in one of those. Cant actually say where other than working as a security guard for Department of Defence about a decade ago, a site i was working on was a research establishment for various things, they had a silent room, had sat in it, you can literally feel the silence, its weird as fuck.
It didn't hurt your ears?
kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind of... hurt is probably the wrong word. I dont think it was as super super super quiet as the on in the article is supposed to be but yeah you definitely feel the silence and if you sit their long enough you hear weird shit you dont realise is you.
you definitely feel the pressure on your eardrums when you shut the door.
legit fucking weird experience ill tell you.
I don't know if the voices in my head would be loud enough to drown out my tinnitus if it was that quiet.
This all sounds like infrasound to me. That shit will make you feel very unsettled and worried, and you won't know why. Hearing your bloodflow, your digestive system, etc. can be weird, but I think that dread comes from infrasound more than anything.
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