"Oglasa silence reigns in a certain location, made in USA, Minnesota. Room blocks 99, 99 percent of the external sounds, and no one could make more than 45 minutes of being in it.
The most peaceful place in the world according to the Guinness Book of Records is located in South Minneapolis in Laboratories Orfield (Orfield Laboratories). In order to achieve extraordinary silence in the room used fiberglass acoustic platform thickness meter, double walls of insulated steel and concrete thickness of 30 cm
The company's founder and its President Stephen Orfield (Steven Orfield) said that when it gets so quiet, your hearing starts to adapt.
"The quieter the room, the more things you hear. You start to hear knocking in your heart, sometimes as moving your lungs or mutters as your stomach. In the anechoic chamber, you become a sound," said he.
Orfield explained that it was very confusing, and makes you sit in one place. We focus on the sounds that we hear when we go. In the anechoic chamber, you do not have any signals that allow you to balance and maneuver. If you will be here for half an hour, it is better to stay on the chair.
This camera is used by many manufacturers for testing the volume of its products, such as heart valves, the sound of the mobile phone display, the sound switch on the dashboard of a car. Also it is used to determine the audio quality.
But for a person with such a room can become a severe test. After a few minutes of being in it, you get used to the lack of sounds, beginning to catch all weaker sounds. In severe cases, this off senses can drain you. The NASA astronauts are trained by placing in a tank filled with water in the bathroom, after some time begin to experience hallucinations, as our body tries to create sounds out of nothing.
With the lights off, the longest time that was able to withstand people in this room, was 45 minutes. The founder was able to carry only half an hour. According to him, the most distracted person, not noise, and silence.
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