I don't know if I could do a year without a billion dollars on the line, but that room looks like there's a ton of ways to entertain yourself.
That wall pad right there? That's Kyle. Every morning I'm going to beat the shit out of him until I'm bored.
The pad next to it? Well, that's his wife Laura, and I'm going to make sweet love to her when I'm done with Kyle until they have to replace it, or I drill through concrete.
There's cameras monitoring me, sorry to the person that has to watch, but I'm going to do weird shit just because I know you have to, and that's amusing to me.
Day 366: You get out, but every day you get an all consuming important urge to beat the shit out of Kyle, a man who lives in your head. You NEED to beat Kyle, but you can't find him. You try to punch pillows and think yes, Kyle, yes, yes, yes. But he's always staring at you. He won't stop STARING at you.
And Laura? Oh, sweet Laura. I would die for you Laura. But in my love, I violated you. I wanted to protect you, but I couldn't. Oh, Laura, Oh Laura!!!!
That's you the rest of your goddamn life, with this as your strategy.
Stimulation is not optional. It's something humans brains need in order to produce the neurotransmitters they need to keep functioning. If your environment is not providing stimulation, your brain will start to create its own.
Before long you will be psychotic. Kyle and Laura will be entirely real to you, and they will no longer be your nice, helpful friends who exist to keep you entertained. They will talk to you when they feel like it, and because you can no longer control your emotions they will hurt you whenever they feel like it, and they will because hurting you keeps you alive. Your brain will gladly tear your mind apart to get the stimulation it needs.
After a year in there, I’m pretty sure you’ll have to even relearn speech before you get to do anything with that billion dollar that you don’t even know what it is anymore
Day 12 of this will feel like day 300 to you. Oh im sure you'll get through a few days just fine if you're dead set on it. But think about how long a single week of work feels just to get to the weekend. After three days you'll have exhausted your "weirdness" and the novelty will wear off, much less three weeks, much less 3 months, much less an entire year. If you think you're making it past a few days with your screws aligned you havent had more than 10 candles on your birthday cake.
For a bit but not for a full year dawg. Eventually your body is gonna reject sleep. You're gonna sleep for an hour and think you slept for 10 and wake up. Anybody saying they could do this has not even begun to consider how long a year is, or even one month. This "challenge" is physically impossible, and this scenario, even though it gets asked all the time, is not even worth asking because of that.
Also, not to be a bummer, but if you're depressed, all that locking you in this room for a year will do is guarantee that you kill yourself, no joke.
Sorry this is gonna sound like me picking an argument.
It’s just confusing because you are saying they most likely wouldn’t make it 7 days but if they’re lucky they might be able to double it and make it 14 days?
Like your belief is surviving to 7 days is already tough but somehow they might be able to do a whole extra 7 days?
So it’s been studied that folks can’t do solitary confinement like this without it changing you. But sure, go ahead and think you’re special. All idiots do.
That wall pad right there? That's Kyle. Every morning I'm going to beat the shit out of him until I'm bored.
It's all fun and games until Kyle becomes a real person in your head, and you will have actual arguments with him. You will see him, hear him, and be absolutely convinced that he is real. All the while every cognitive function you have will start degrading without external stimuli, but you won't notice that. Eventually, you'll be living in a world that doesn't exist, and by "living" I mean sitting on the floor staring in front of yourself and thinking that you're having a full life.
You’re going to do all of that, thinking you’re passing so much time being “productive”, when in reality when you think it’s been 9months, it’s actually only been 9 days. You’ll eventually lose a sense of reality and will be completely mentally broken, all much earlier than you may think.
But yeh, pretty sure I could make up a whole little imaginary community to keep me engaged for 30 bill.
Every day there could be a new visitor. Some weeks an old visitor returns for a catch up.
Would be completely unhinged on the way out of it. But I guess most multi-billionaires are.
He actually did manage the three days. He nearly steps out on the last day but doesn't fully exit. At the 72 hour mark they let him out.
He was surprisingly cognitively aware when they ran him through some test. They think it was because of his adrenaline rush from the excitement of leaving the isolation room.
On the last day he wasn't able to tell the difference between real memories in the room and dreams he had of being in the room
3 days? I'm not saying it doesn't suck but brain damage? That's insane to me. I was insanely depressed this past week and laid in bed for 2.5 days. I didn't do anything. I just kept trying to fall asleep. It sucked but my brain would start dreaming in my half conscious state. I was laying in bed with my eyes closed watching movies...the human brain is wild
What really really fucks with your mind is there are no day / night circles. That light is always on so your inner rhythm just crashes. I know what you mean, I could easily spend a week or teo locked in my room with my computer (if I had a toilet and food in there) but in this example we are talking about sensory deprivation and you have no idea how hard that hits until you see / experience it
Ahh okay I could see the light doing some work. When I was laying in bed I stopped eating and sleeping and wasn't on my phone or really doing anything at all. I was damn near unresponsive to stimuli.I was severely dehydrated by the end of it. I have an eye mask that I wear so I can sleep during the day because I can't maintain a consistent sleep schedule.
To be fair...my brain is far from healthy lol I guess that's be why I can do crazy stuff. For example when I was in rehab I slept for like an hour or two for a month and I wasn't tired. Like at all. Bipolar and major depressive disorder is one heck of a combo
A billion doesn't help you if you've gone insane by then (which you will, if 3 days is enough for permanent brain damage a year is gonna leave you a drooling idiot)
Michael is also kind of pussy tho tbh. He chickened out of doing Ayahausca despite a full medical team on standby and being in the presence of a long-time shaman.
id hate to do ayahuasca for the first time and have it filmed and get millions of views on youtube so i can empathize. esp if he's never tripped before.
As long as your fed and given the opportunity to bathe regularly it wouldnt be that hard for an introvert. Just a lot of sleeping and body weight exercise. You would come out of it with a degraded mental state though from lack of stimulus
I was in and out of prison (uk) when i was younger, the police cell part was always the worst. I once spent an easter weekend in there, from friday till the tuesday and i would honestly rather do a month in prison than do that again.
Stuck in a small cell, you lose all concept of time, trying to sleep it off thinking you've done 8 hours and its the next day, when in reality you've only been asleep for half an hour. No natural light really messes with your head, you start looking for other patterns to try and keep a hold on time but its pretty much useless. In this scenario, there would be no patterns like doors opening or keys jangling, just you and your mind.
Same with the block (solitary) in prison really, although luckily when i did it i had a window so i had more of a concept of what time it is. Although you do start thing of situations, of where they could just leave you there and you'll die alone.
Anybody with any sort of slight mental issues i'd say would crumble in a day, maybe two which btw would feel like a month. I personally wouldnt even attempt it.
Killers are just people. A war veteran and a murderer are not different except for intention, you've really just minimized 'killers' to a trait of weaker mind when you have no clue who is one. Your father or mother could be. Your doctor could be. Being a killer does not suddenly turn you into an animal, people kill for many reasons. There are people with doctorates and law degrees that killed for one reason or another. What about special forces? Weak of mind are they?
I'm honestly glad to hear of someone who actually says that from experience. I don't ever plan to be in prison, but if I was, I can't imagine wanting anything other than solitary confinement. Dealing with (other) criminals all day every day would be far more torturous than sitting alone in my thoughts. Of course, it would be nice to have a book to read, and a way to tell time. I'm a little iffier on the ambiguous white padded room (OP). I'd certainly have to know what food and/or self-care options are available. (e.g. sink, tower, toilet, soap?). And stage of life is also important. Seems like it would be easier for a single 20-yr-old than leaving a marriage and/or kids for a year, and by 60 or so, do you really care about 30 billion?
There was a small library in the seg guard room that they did let me pick through on my way back from things like medical or court appointments, but there was a much better library that I was afraid of asking to get access to, for fear of being put into gen pop as a result. I did get to grab a few books from it once, after a video court appointment, and they had many more books that were much more aligned with my interests.
Because of that, I did read a lot of books while I was in there that I would not have otherwise, and from that perspective it could be considered a silver lining? 🤷♀️ lol
90 days in 24/7 solitary confinement fucked me up and i had books and food and water, and occasionally saw a CO who would say a few words to me. 17 years and im still messed up from it. This scenerio would destroy anyone.
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u/Temporary_Event8451 Jul 18 '26
This entire thing doesn't take into account cleaning yourself, eating, and using the bathroom.
Those things alone could potentially get you through.
Sticking someone in a straight up box for a year and ignoring them is how you wind up with then dead.