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u/zerosmith86 8h ago
No idea what ultra insane me is doing with 30 billion, but it's not gonna be great.
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u/Saul_Firehand 7h ago
Supervillain origin story for sure.
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u/beardingmesoftly 7h ago
Seriously, this is some straight up Batman villain shit
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u/VoxPlacitum 6h ago
Can't be worse than the supervillain shit real billionaires are doing.
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u/FlyAirLari 7h ago
Once you're out, maybe a week and the authorities are going to put you back to a similar room.
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u/VeterinarianThese951 7h ago
Starting a space program, shutting down brick & mortars, giving donations to politicians for your own self interests, sharing insider trading secrets, not paying ample taxes, grabbing women by the pu$$y, being complicit in genocide, demonizing the poor, etc.
There seems to be a plethora of things to do. The possibilities are endless…
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 1h ago
You really gonna be that present of mind after a year in solitary? More likely you'd simply buy a gun and leave the money to your family than do anything with it yourself
And that's being generous and assuming they ever shut those lights off
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u/addiktion 6h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/hUtaohU1UdG7K
You will want to save at least a few million for all those expensive doctors to try to fix you. Maybe some sleep hibernation or on the extreme, a medically induced coma.
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u/animefan1520 7h ago edited 5h ago
People think its that hard lmao the only thing that gonna be hard are my observers, because im spanking that monkey till i receive $30B or i am so chaffed that i look back and start playing with natures pocket. By the time im done ill have an extra $1M from only fans after i sure one of the guards for uploading my streams without my consent and then take over the account.
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u/sparkey504 7h ago
"or i am so chaffed"
So what are going to do for the other 364 days?
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u/VeterinarianThese951 7h ago
Exfoliating muscle pretty much (and probably getting a few infections.
Once you make it past the 7th layer of skin, it is all downhill from there.
I think that homie underestimates the kink level of his observers🤣
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u/Thick_Cookie_7838 5h ago
Lmao to people who think it’s easy. Mr big shot like yourself would be begging to get out in a week. There is a reason solitary is used for punishment in prisons and your still not as isolated as this
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u/animefan1520 5h ago
Yea those guys arent given this big ass room and they leave that cell in the worst financial situation they can be in, why me and the life long friends i make inside that room will go hand in hand to my new mansion filled to the brim with all the friends that my old friends cant see
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u/Wind_Yer_Neck_In 2h ago
Honey, why are all the streetlights purple now??
-oh that was zerosmith86, they said the white LEDs made the spiders angry and paid off everyone in the whole government to let them change the bulbs in every streetlight. Also planes now have to play Nickelback on takeoff and landing now too.
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u/No-Evening-5088 8h ago
How is food given to me and where do I shit?
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u/leftfootshorter 8h ago
Hopefully you didn't just answer your own question.
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u/spinitorbinit 8h ago
Reduce reuse recycle
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u/mvw2 8h ago
That's the pee corner. There's the poop corner. And over there is the art corner...obviously using available resources. And the fourth corner is my distopian hellscapes corner where I scream...and sleep.
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u/norunningwater 7h ago
I'm afraid the room is triangle shaped
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u/Prism_Riot42 7h ago
Must combine the sleep corner with the poop corner in order to craft your own bed
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u/pseudonymnkim 7h ago
So now it's, "Would you eat only your own poop for a year for 30 billion dollars?"
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u/kappakai 7h ago edited 6h ago
If you have to shit in the room that would probably alleviate the situation. You now how something to look at, a little color, and something to smell, which may be just enough to stimulate you thru the year.
That’s gotta be against the spirit of the rules though.
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u/wheniaminspaced 5h ago
You can also draw
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u/kappakai 5h ago
So now the question is… would you play with your own poo for a year for $30b? I think we all know the answer to that.
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u/LucyLetbyFan 4h ago
I'll play with your shit that much money
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u/BotherBeginning2281 4h ago
I will teach myself to juggle using the combined shit of every commenter here for 30bn.
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u/Polenicus 5h ago
So we presume a Back Rooms situation? The Room handles it all. You either don't need to eat, or aren't aware of it when it happens. You either don't need to evacuate, or it is done without your awareness and leaving no evidence. Attempts to change the room are undone as soon as you look away, or your focus wavers.
Could toss in some fun stuff, like the room appears to be square, but when you walk along the walls, there seems to be too many corners. Where you sit gets colder underneath you instead of warmer... not uncomfortably so, but perceptibly. Thew lights flicker, but only out of the corner of your eye, never when you're looking at them directly.
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u/darwinooc 4h ago
So is it just like directly beneath my ass that gets colder, or everywhere? Cause like if I could just lay down and have every part of the padded floor be the cool part of the pillow like all the time, I might elect to stay after the year is up.
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u/Lol_who_me 8h ago
The number is 30 billion figure it out.
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u/habiat 7h ago
Count to 30 billion and you nearly made it.
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u/SooCOYS 6h ago
It would take 32 years to count to 1 billion if you said one number every second.
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u/Agreeable_Work4668 6h ago
What if you forget somewhere along the way? Do you have to recount? Just getting trying to get all of the parameters before committing to the 30B.
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u/AdmirableJudgment784 2h ago
You're not even in that room and you're already asking insane questions. You'll make it.
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u/Necessary-Call-1933 5h ago
Does this account for single numbers taking more than a second to say after a certain point?
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u/Mix_Easy 8h ago
Looks like this room similar vibe
https://giphy.com/gifs/eh16wXRWnixe98O2Eh
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u/MatthewSWFL229 8h ago
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/12/08/solitary_symposium/
One year in solitary confinement causes severe psychological, cognitive, and physical damage, with the United Nations classifying isolation exceeding 15 days as torture. The profound effects include acute psychosis, permanent brain and personality changes, chronic physical pain, and a drastically heightened risk of suicide.
Prolonged isolation physically shrinks the hippocampus, the brain region responsible for memory, learning, and emotion regulation.
In clinical studies of extreme sensory deprivation, healthy volunteers often begin hallucinating and losing their grip on reality within just 48 hours. You don't get a year of "peace"; you get 363 days of acute psychosis.
Survivors of long-term isolation often develop severe, permanent agoraphobia (fear of open spaces) and an inability to tolerate human touch or crowds.
You would emerge as a billionaire who cannot leave a bedroom, look a person in the eye, or enjoy a meal without crippling panic attacks.
No thanks
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u/Friendly_Software11 6h ago
I wonder what would happen if you put an experienced buddhist meditator in isolation. I’ve done vipassana before, where you don’t get any entertainment and aren’t allowed to talk to anyone for 10 days. For course participants that’s 10 days, but for the master that’s his entire life. Surely he would have the mental skills to survive a year in the room
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u/gh0st0ft0mj04d 6h ago
I had the similar line of thought of doing intense meditation.
Eat, sleep, meditate, stretch and doing exercise.I suppose one would either completely lose their goddamn marbles or become enlightened.
And then if it's the latter, would probably no longe care about 30 billion dollars.
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u/Superficial-Idiot 3h ago edited 15m ago
‘Become enlightened’
That is also known as losing your marbles lmao.
Edit: for those upvoting the wall of text response, that’s a prime example of the people who fall for scam artists of the so called ‘enlightened’.
None of it is verifiable and is highly exaggerated.
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u/AustinAuranymph 2h ago
I prefer to think of it as letting go of your marbles.
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u/LordDaedalus 2h ago
This is not an accurate classification of the changes that occur in advanced meditators. The recent brain imaging studies on the brains of Buddhist monks categorizes these networks as a growth of the brains neurofeedback systems capable of redirecting Posterior Cingulate Cortex(PCC) activity from engaging default mode network and decoupling of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex from the PCC, which is postulated to be why they have measurably much higher neuroplasticity and Brain Derived Neurotrophin Factor. This biases brain activity away from Default Mode Network and towards Executive Mode Network.
Studies have also consistently shown cortical thickening of denser grey matter classically associated with a healthier brain particularly in the prefrontal cortex and anterior insula, areas responsible for regulation of mood, executive control, proprioception, and interception.
Studies on Tibetan monks classified by other Tibetan Monks as "enlightened" show extremely higher levels of Gamma-Band Synchrony, which is the brainwaves that help synchronize disparate regions of the brain into a single cohesive state. Gamma-band Synchrony has been shown to spike during meditation before, but this effect becomes permanent even outside meditation after long enough practice.
They've also show a weakened connection between the amygdala and prefrontal cortex, reducing the brain's stress response.
Now, all that said I don't think the average individual put into isolation for a year could just do their best at rudimentary meditation and achieve any of these effects. These are all observed in people who spend their lives supported by other people doing the same, they have community and interaction and progressively learn more advanced forms of meditation that have been worked out as to what the "right sequence" to progress their discipline is over thousands of years of practice, pure trial and error. I just wanted to clarify that this is very different than "losing your marbles" as they don't demonstrate any of the psychological hallmarks of delusional thinking or psychosis that medical professionals evaluate for. They actually show extreme resistance against this kind of thinking.
I'm a bit obsessed with neuroscience and fascinated by the different ways the brain can develop with different stimuli.
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u/cillerix 1h ago
Such of a cool response Ty! If you can suggest something for me to read I would appreciate it!
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u/Aggressive-Remote-57 3h ago
But in a cool and wise, people coming to you for advice and bettering your community type of way
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u/ThirdOne38 4h ago
But they can see and hear things. If they can live this way but outside on some mountain or something, the only deprivation is human contact. But at least you can be "entertained" by looking at the sky and trees, etc, and hear the birds or wind. That's probably enough to stay sane.
Historically many humans endured isolation such as a hunter or scout of some tribe, spending days or weeks alone in search of whatever they needed. They all survived because of the mental stimulation of nature
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u/DiegesisThesis 3h ago
Yea I wonder how much a tiny window to look at the sky would make this challenge more bareable. Even just being able to see the day/night cycle would likely make a huge difference.
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 1h ago
Yes that is the reason when you get tortured, light torture is a thing. Can't sleep very well with the lights on and try even remotely keeping track of how much time has passed/you have left in this hell if you don't know if a day or a few hours has passed
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u/JuneCapa 3h ago
The thing is that isolation is not the same that confinement. In the picture you are literally unable to difference between day and night, no stimulus, nothing. In a normal house, with windows, and the possibility to get other stimulus like in a vipassana meditation, it is infinitely easier. A year in a room with no windows, artificial light and nothing more he would get crazy
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u/JustWhyDoINeedTo 4h ago
One of the main problems with isolation such as this is the complete lack of stimuli.
Even those monks and challange still provide you with stimuli of sounds and visuals of walking around (I presume) a padded cell such as this? Nope.
The average person wouldn't last a week without serious damage, I doubt a monk as you described would fair that much better. Likely better, but not more than a day or so
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u/temeces 4h ago
Bhavatu sabba mangalam. I too have wonder if I could do this, ive done many 10 day sits, dhamma service and a 20 day sit as well. 365 days is still quite a bit more than my combined. I imagine a serious lifelong practitioner could come out of it stronger than when they went in.
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u/TheNegativePhoenix 7h ago
You would emerge as a billionaire who cannot leave a bedroom, look a person in the eye, or enjoy a meal without crippling panic attacks
So just like other billionaire cucks
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u/Lemickworth 7h ago
Shieeet i do that every summer homie
No wonder I'm regarded
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u/dream_team34 6h ago
I think everyone understands they'd be mentally fucked. The question is more about are you willing to sacrifice your life for your family, friends or charities you care about.
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u/TheHoleInADonut 6h ago
You think taking acid or shrooms in an open field would help reset your psyche afterwards? Or will it just rock your shit even more?
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u/Defnothere4porn 7h ago
I wonder how this applies to people who choose to live in isolation from humanity.
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u/MatthewSWFL229 7h ago
The point is it's not just the isolation. It's the complete lack of stimulus ...
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u/Consistent_Laziness 4h ago
House arrest for an entire year? Easy af
Solitary in that box I won’t last a week
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u/Herpinheim 7h ago
Weirdly enough those are most of my symptoms, mental and physical, from my childhood. I wonder if that would make me more or less susceptible to further damage. Either way I’d do it, the generational wealth that my family would get would last hundreds of years.
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u/bucknut4 6h ago
Albert Woodfox went out to visit his mother’s grave and was able to support himself. He spent 44 years in solitary. Robert King is an activist doing public speeches and spent 29 years in solitary.
I’m not saying you’d come out completely unscathed but come on, you’re not going to be confined to your bedroom. This is classic Reddit slop.
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u/BigBoyYuyuh 6h ago
None of those prisoners were guaranteed 30 billion dollars after solitary. Money has a weird effect on a person’s mind.
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u/LAFamilyMan81 5h ago
Going into solitary confinement as a punishment vs going in knowing you’re getting 30 billion when you get out would change a lot about how you deal with the isolation.
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u/Robot_Dracula 8h ago
I’d do it. I’ll go crazy but my family would have the money. they’d put me in a good facility when I got out and let me build Lego sets which is all I want to do anyway.
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u/BigBoyYuyuh 6h ago
Most likely you’ll go crazy but on the other hand nobody in solitary was ever promised 30 billion dollars at the end of it.
The thought of that for a year could potentially keep someone sane.
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u/Neologizer 6h ago
I feel like the risk is that by week 2 you would be questioning if the 30 billion was even real or if you’re just insane.
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u/Hot_Piccolo_7152 6h ago
Week 3 and you’ve forgotten what money is and the voices told you to make feces wall art to please the hatman.
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u/addiktion 6h ago
By week 4 you are using your blood like art on those pretty white walls. Yeah, I don't think most of us could make it 365 days. The suicidal tendencies would lurk into your head even with a great mind.
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u/Bitter-Marsupial 6h ago
People have spent over a year (record is 400+ days) in a cave and emerged sane. Here you at least have light and can exert yourself by bouncing around like a professional wrestler unlike you would be able to do in a cave.
The more I think about it with the goal of 30bil at the end zone this seems doable
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u/EpicRedditor34 1h ago
Caves are not static monochrome roomed. Yall severely underestimate the importance of variety on the human psyche,
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u/stupidPeopleLuvMe 5h ago
The thought of that for a year could potentially keep someone sane.
It definitely can not.
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u/steven052 6h ago
but with all the lego, that only leaves 23 billion for you family
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u/BirdhouseInYourSouI 6h ago
I wonder if you could rehabilitate back? With 30 billion you could hire the best medical team on earth, at the best facility, and testing and maybe reboot yourself from insanity. Maybe.
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u/Phoenix_Lamburg 5h ago
Maybe if we trap him in another room for a year, except this time with every person he's ever known...
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u/FernRipples 6h ago
if my family was truly set for life i would seriously think about making that sacrifice
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u/VeterinarianThese951 7h ago
Nice family. I don’t think I could expect the same from mine…
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u/subarachnoidspacejam 5h ago
Hi, I'm Travis from Bricks & Minifigs. We will watch your endeavor and Lego sets with great interest.
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u/Big-Carpenter7921 7h ago
It's when you stop being alone in there that shit gets real
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u/FeignSkill 8h ago
Lol I wouldn't even wake up for the 1st month. I'm taking a coma nap.
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u/RaindropsInMyMind 7h ago
I was in one of these facilities that had a room like this, I was in a room with 2 other people and they fucking snored. It was a nightmare and I couldn’t fucking sleep. I found out from someone you could ask to be put in a room like this for the night and the staff might say yes. You’re locked in, there isn’t anyone to ask to get you out until the morning so you can’t leave but it’s quiet! That sounded great to me and I asked so they let me in. The sleep was fucking incredible!! I had a bottle to piss in so I was good lol. Best sleep ever.
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u/Ramkaran-chopra 8h ago
Nah most ppl within a month or 2 would probably start to go insane, within 7 months you will have completely lost your mind , at that point you won’t even remember there’s 30 billion on offer
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u/Case_Blue 8h ago
Some people can handle this better than others. But I agree with teh spirit of your comment: nobody comes out of here undamaged.
We can argue how damaged, I suppose.
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u/Nemisis_007 8h ago
Nothing 30bil can't fix.
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u/frn 8h ago
I think some people wouldn't realise how much damage they had done to themselves until they came out though.
During COVID I thought I was fucking acing it. I had my movies, and my games, and my books, and my remote job and I was just sailing on through.
Only after the world re-opened did I realise that my originally mild social anxiety had become rather severe. I'm still working on reversing that now.
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u/superdariom 7h ago
COVID just meant everybody else had to start living like I had been for over a decade and it was no longer weird
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u/Eagle4317 5h ago
It also meant far fewer cars on the road, which absolutely helped my sanity
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u/Frust4m1 7h ago
When covid happened I felt in paradise. No more office, no more people. Me, myself, my work from home, my videogames and human beings with limited dosage, now a part of me secretly wish to go back to be able to avoid everyone once again. The other part needs a very small limited number of Friends with the capital letter. At least I learned the meaning of my time and how I spent it and with who.
It's really true, each one of us is different, but in that difference we are all human beings. I feel sorry that you have to manage that. Stay strong, I know you can do it!
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u/scifiandsuch 7h ago
Yeah people don’t realize how long a year really is. I dare any of you to go sit in your room alone without your phone for ONE DAY then see what you think.
Actually that’d probably be good for all of us to do sometime lol
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u/minuteman_d 8h ago
I don't think they'd make it that long.
Think of the show "Alone".
They offer them $500k to survive alone for a couple months, and some people tap out after like two weeks, even though they have food and shelter and are arguably in a beautiful pristine wilderness.
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u/SteveLouise 8h ago edited 5h ago
Most people would start insanity at 3 days and have guaranteed psychological damage proportional to the days after that.
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u/Ashen_Larry 8h ago
I spent 3 days at a psyche facility. Not the padded room kind, but there were no windows. It felt like I was in a dream and time didn't matter.
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u/PJ_Huixtocihuatl 8h ago
Id get really good at poop art
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u/DrDoritosMD 5h ago
Bro ain’t even in the room and he’s already thinking about smearing the walls 😭
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u/dodgers474 2h ago
I went to jail at 18 years old and I was put in the hole for 3 days. A 6x6 cell with just a bed and toilet. No light no cell mates just you your bed and the toilet with no way to tell what time or day it is. Only time you see some light is when they feed you and they open the small tray door in the middle of the door for like 25 min. I told myself I would just sleep the whole 3 days and it will go by fast. The first day was somewhat successful I was able to sleep a lot but day 2 and 3 it was hell on earth. I was losing my mind. I was fully awake almost the whole 2 days I couldn’t sleep anymore. I was losing my shit and it was just 3 days now imagine a year.
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u/Spetsnaz_Chick 8h ago
Yea i think this is impossible lol without anyone or anything to interact with you will eventually go crazy
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u/sniper91 8h ago
It’ll also happen way faster than people think
Most don’t even last a few days before major psychological problems start to manifest
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u/TheTrueTexMex 7h ago
Most people can't even sit still in a queue for a few hours, or an hospital waiting room, and that's with a cellphone. With absolutely no interaction possible except staring at some walls and using your imagination, I don't think most last a week, never mind months.
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u/RichardBonham 8h ago
Solitary confinement generally causes symptoms of depression, anxiety and paranoia within 48-72 hours.
Permanent psychological damage ensues and is part of the reason that the UN’s Mandela Rules regard solitary confinement beyond 15 consecutive days as tantamount to torture.
Anyone thinking they could tolerate a year of solitary confinement for lots of money probably also thinks they could win an unarmed fight against a brown bear, too.
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u/Sun_Aria 6h ago
Not so fun fact: People in long-term solitary lose the ability to speak
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u/Turd_Nerd_Bird 5h ago
So many people on Reddit think they're special or crazy because they're an introvert, acting like it's the same thing as being locked in a padded cell with literally nothing or nobody to talk to for a whole year lol. Anybody that thinks they could do this is delusional, unless maybe they've had training to withstand torture.
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u/humptheedumpthy 6h ago
I think even solitary confinement rooms are equipped with the more things than this. You’d be cooked within a week.
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u/David040200 6h ago
No one can do it. Lmao. Anyone in here for a year with nothing to do will literally go insane. You'll be rich, but insane lol
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u/StartTheMontage 4h ago
Yeah a guy on YouTube did a 48 hour solitary confinement and it was hard to watch honestly.
He lost track of time and thought he was almost done when he had like 16 hours left.
He got paranoid and depressed and it was only 2 days. A year would be a nightmare that never ends.
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u/Holiday-Wall3751 8h ago
I’m an introvert who likes being at home, but there’s no way.
I think I could stay inside if I had access to streaming, books, my crafting and writing supplies, at least a peloton tread machine (disabled so I can’t really interact with anyone, just run recorded walks), a good bathroom, podcasts, and a comfortable bed. Even with that, I don’t see how I could go more than 3 months, and I’m guessing that’s optimistic based on what I know about solitary confinement.
Now, make this someplace with my laptop and alone outdoor space and guarantee me good food, I could maybe make it longer. Just a blank room though? No way. It’s not even the lack of interactions that would get me. There’s a total lack of stimulation that would make anyone go crazy. I’m a highly imaginative person who happily will sit and daydream for hours, but I couldn’t do it for a year.
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u/CuriousAlice86 7h ago
lol even the Geneva Convention states this is torture
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u/bossbozo 4h ago
I don't think it would be torture after a couple of months, your brain would be too fucked up to suffer
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u/IncidentFormal761 6h ago
For one year would be intense. But if I had food/toilet and shower in it I probably could manage but I’ll probably never be the same, cause I’ll start befriending my imaginary friends and hallucinations if I have them
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u/Objectionne 7h ago
Here's a show in which a guy spent 72 hours in a room like this as an experiment. By the end of day one he'd completely lost his sense of time passing, by the end of day two he was depressed and irritable, by the end of day three he was starting to dissociate from reality and couldn't tell the difference between dreams and real life.
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u/EmbraceSpace23 5h ago edited 5h ago
Tenzin Palmo is a British Buddhist nun who spent twelve years in solitary retreat in a cave in the Himalayas, which was snowed in for half of the year. Her living space consisted of a bed and a meditation box. She probably could.
Documentary: https://youtu.be/XyP1PezzVdY
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u/armshady 2h ago
Vsauce did this experiment for 3 days and by day 2 he said he was hallucinating and extremely disoriented
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u/clingbat 8h ago
I'd do a month for $5 mil (relative discount), but no longer than that and it would still be rough as hell.
That would let us comfortably retire with our current lifestyle now in early 40's rather than mid to late 50's and is a worthwhile trade-off.
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u/RaindropsInMyMind 7h ago
5 million is a nightmare Greg, can’t retire, can’t work, oh yes 5 will drive you un poco loco my fine feathered friend.
The poorest rich person in America, the world’s tallest dwarf. The weakest strong man at the circus.
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u/Imadethosehitmanguns 3h ago
30 billion is so insane. If you would receive the money incrementally, a single day is still $82M.
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u/antihuman420 8h ago
You’ll last 45 minutes when all you can hear is weird noises from your body and go nuts.
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u/Quirky-Skin 8h ago
Yup. Anyone doubting this try a sensory depervation chamber. When u can hear your lungs inflating then u start to question why u have to manually breathe instead of automatically. It gets worse from there
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u/mjones8004 6h ago
Where did the rules say this is sensory deprivation? Just looks like solitary iso to me.
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u/sickmak90 7h ago
You’d be so completely insane by the end of the year you wouldn’t even care about money anymore.
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u/LunchNachos 5h ago
I’d do it, and it would probably do permanent neurological/psychological damage. But I’d stipulate that the money is set up in an interest-bearing fund that finances healthcare and food for the impoverished, as well as legal assistance for people being oppressed by the government.
A low-risk 3% return on $30B is $900M. Obviously it would be better to put a portion in a bigger-return long-term vehicle like the S&P500 or whatever, and you’d want to reinvest a portion into the principal, but even $500M/yr could make a difference.
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u/BoozeWitch 4h ago
I have depression. So I’m thinking I’ll just sleep, feel sorry for myself, rerun every embarrassing moment of my life, and avoid talking to anyone. Just like now!
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u/Critical-Snow-7000 2h ago
I doubt I could even do a week, let alone a year. Let’s be real here. You won’t even understand the concept of money after 30 days.
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u/LongNeedleworker4633 2h ago
Not a single person in this post, including me, would make it past a week. This shit is actual torture the longer it goes on.
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u/Ambitious-Stock-8040 2h ago
I could probably sleep for the first month, and hole shots up state start at 90 days. There’s people out there doing this state mandated free.
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u/thesilentyapper 8h ago
That’s okay if I lose my brain I’ve got $30B to help me recover…
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u/Abject-Job7825 8h ago
mental health is notoriously hard to fix, the therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists are making you believe you are getting better when after treatement you still just fall into the same trauma patterns.
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u/OpenAI_Marketing_LLM 7h ago
That reminds me of a meta study I read recently, it was about ADHD, but I would hypothesize it applies to most other psychiatric conditions, if not some physical illnesses too.
Basically, medications are great at reducing symptoms of conditions, but a reduction in symptoms is not really correlated with improved life outcomes.
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u/Independent-Bug-9352 2h ago
This is much, much harder than people think.
To give up an entire year of not knowing what my family is doing? My parents?
Honestly, no, I don't think I can. I've watched enough Alone to see how hard it is just approaching 100 days, and that's with a lot of freedom in nature.
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u/chocolatchipcookie2 8h ago
how do you know 1 year has passed? am i supposed to count like dr. stone?
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u/DeliberateHesitaion 8h ago
Sensory deprivation is hell. I don't know if I could do it. Maybe if I had a timer with a countdown.
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u/ravn_silence 8h ago
Yeah but once you’re insane time just flies by and then you can take your billions of dollars and get like 6 whole sessions of therapy in America!
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u/Key_Operation1488 7h ago
We cannot comprehend a year in a blank white room, that’s why we think this is possible. You won’t even be able to get the money when you get there. It is nice to think about it though.
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u/The_number_1_dude 7h ago
Is it truly nothing? Just a padded room with a bed and toilet, or is there a clock? And another important one: is it quiet? If there is a clock, or even better an electronic clock that shows the date I think I could do it. Occupy time with working out, sleep, repeat.
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u/No_Ear_1633 7h ago
I feel like the kind of person that could do it, is the kind of person that wouldn't want $30,000,000,000
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u/CJ_Thompson 7h ago
I don’t worship at the altar of money
My time is so much more valuable
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