There is such a challenge, lock you in a closed room for 30 days, if you can persist until the last second, you can get a bonus of 50,000 to 100,000 yuan, are you willing to participate? Of course, the challenge has many additional conditions.
1. Electronic devices are not allowed during the challenge, so you don't want to pass the time by swiping your phone or playing games. However, you can bring 2 to 3 other personal items, such as a book or a Rubik's Cube. 2. In this confined space, there are no windows and clocks, so you can't see the day and night changes and there is no concept of time. 3. Food supply may be irregular, so you don't have to push back the time by delivering food. 4. There is a bathroom in the room where you can wash but not take a shower. 5. If the challenge fails, the challenge fee of 200 yuan / day must be paid on a daily basis.
How, do you think it is difficult? Last year, there were many similar "confinement challenge" projects on online platforms such as a certain sound and a certain hand, and people of the right age and good health could apply to participate. During this period, the project manager will post a video of the participants in the room on the platform every day.
One of the lockdown challenge project 丨 video screenshots, has been deleted
Because it is more anti-human, such experiments on internet platforms have been stopped.
Many people find such a challenge so easy that the comments under the relevant challenge video on a certain tone have exceeded 25,000. Many people are eager to try it, thinking that this is the realistic version of lying win. But in reality, there were no reports of successful challenges until it was stopped.
A lot of people think that way. 丨 Screenshot of Weibo
In fact, as early as 2017, Channel 5 produced a similar TV show, "In Solitary: The Anti-Social Experiment."
There are three volunteers in the program. In an empty warehouse, the program team prepared a well-insulated container for each volunteer and let them stay in this completely enclosed environment for 5 days and 5 nights. Each person is allowed to bring 3 personal items other than musical instruments, books, and electronics. If they can't hold on or have an emergency, volunteers can ring the alarm bell in the house and leave early. The program team also invited a psychologist to sit down and analyze the mental state of the volunteers and ensure their safety.
At the site of the experiment, each container is a room. 丨 channel5.com
The interior of the room is set up with channel5.com
At the beginning of the show, all three of them were happy, some playing poker, some fitness, and some pinching plasticine. But only 5 hours later, the first volunteer chose to leave early because he was afraid of the next 5 days. The remaining two people also began to feel anxious and depressed. Although after 5 days of suffering they persevered to the end, but in the interview afterwards, the only male volunteer said that the narrow and extremely quiet room made him feel deeply uneasy, and his mood would be unconsciously depressed and depressed, such as remembering the divorce of his parents when he was a child, and he felt as if he were a lonely boat in the universe.
5 days of confinement has greatly challenged people's psychological and spiritual endurance, and if you confine yourself for 30 days according to the conditions mentioned at the beginning of the article, it is undoubtedly destroying a person's psychological and spiritual defense line.
The so-called confinement challenge is actually a long-term feeling deprivation. Sensory deprivation refers to the artificial deprivation of some or all of an organism's sensory abilities to minimize external stimuli.
People's feelings are diverse, and any kind of stimulus from the outside world that acts on people may trigger "feelings". But these sensations can also be deprived of vision – simple devices can cut off vision, such as eye masks and hoods; more complex methods can cut off touch, taste, heat and gravity, such as depriving people of their sense of gravity by hanging, and depriving them of taste by restricting the type of diet.
Studies have found that short-term sensory deprivation may be beneficial to the human body. For example, in the first 60 to 90 minutes of sensory deprivation, people's response is usually relaxed, and parameters such as blood pressure, heart rate, and respiratory rate can change in a good direction, and even reach the "optimal level of arousal". Optimal levels of arousal refer to the fact that when external stimuli are maintained at a certain level, a person's bodily functions, learning ability, or temporary sense of well-being are maximized.
In short-term experiments, the researchers have found that certain forms of sensory deprivation are pleasurable. For example, there is a short-term sensory deprivation called chamber rest, which causes participants to lie for 24 hours in a completely dark and soundproof room with enough food and a toilet. In fact, the vast majority of people can stay for 24 hours because they find such a secret room very relaxing. Similarly, there is flotation rest, in which people float and rest in a dark, soundproof warm water tank.
There is a short-term sensory deprivation called chamber therapy, which causes participants to lie in a completely dark and soundproofed room for 24 hours. 丨Reference 8
Too much or too little external stimulus can cause stress, which can damage mental and physical health. Therefore, when a person receives too high a level of stimulation, the appropriate degree of sensory deprivation has a good effect. This also supports in a sense why humans need sleep, because falling asleep is also similar to a beneficial feeling deprivation.
However, prolonged sensory deprivation is very harmful to the human body, especially after adding too many inappropriate human intervention factors.
In 1954, researchers at McGill University in Canada conducted a study that explored the effects of excessive sensory deprivation on the human body. The researchers recruited college students locally for $20 a day, and eventually 22 male college students became subjects.
In addition to eating and going to the toilet, subjects were asked to lie in bed as much as possible every day, while their upper bodies were wrapped like astronauts— with thick sleeves on their arms and cotton gloves on their hands, depriving them of sense of gravity and touch. The fluorescent lights in the room were on all the time, and the subjects wore translucent plastic eye masks, which resemble frosted glass, which ensured that the subjects could not see the specific images clearly, thus depriving them of vision to a certain extent. Not only that, but the air conditioner next to the bed will always emit a monotonous hum, which is done to deprive the subject of hearing.
In terms of auditory deprivation, the study uses a constant uniform stimulus rather than trying to eliminate the stimulus, a sensory deprivation known as the "ganzfeld effect." 丨 jaeonline.org
At first, the subjects thought well that they could use this time to get a good night's sleep, or think about college papers, life plans, etc., but after the experiment began, they realized how unrealistic it was. During the experiment, they could not think continuously and clearly, their minds were always jumping around, and their emotions became more and more anxious. So despite the generous pay, the vast majority of students opted out 24 to 36 hours after the experiment began, and no one could last more than 72 hours.
What's even more frightening is that the bad effects are still there after the experiment is over. Around the third day after the test, participants generally reported brief hallucinations. Some have flashes of light at the edge of the field of vision; some hear strange sounds, such as barking, typing, sirens, dripping water, etc.; others feel that they have cold steel blocks pressed on their faces, and the mattress under them seems to be sucked away when they sleep. While they can also perform simple memory and manipulation activities, their ability to perform complex creative or associative activities is affected.
One of the participants described the feeling of being in isolation through painting. He says it feels like "having two selves" and will briefly be unsure whether it's a or b. 丨 Reference 9
This is also considered to be the earliest and most classic sensory deprivation experiment of human subjects. Later, due to the precise harmful results, medical ethics and other reasons, this kind of long-term, excessive sensory deprivation experiments for healthy people were very few, mostly concentrated in the 1960s. Instead, experiments with shorter periods of time and fewer extreme interventions, such as the aforementioned chamber therapy and floating therapy, are mainly used.
Under prolonged sensory deprivation, individuals may have various pathological psychological phenomena, so it has also been regarded as a form of torture.
For example, some NATO armed forces have used it as a means of punishing prisoners. Common methods include the mask method of depriving the detainee of a sense of direction and vision (putting a dark bag on the head of the detainee and only removing it during interrogation), and the noise conquest method of depriving the hearing (locking the detainee in a room with continuous noise).
For example, pelican bay prison (pbsp) in California, known as the world's "most cruel prison", specializes in hosting felons. One of the reasons for the cruelty is that the prison cells have only four concrete walls, and the prisoners need to stay in them 22.5 hours a day, and they are so bored that they are crazy that they are eager for the judge to sentence themselves to death. This is actually a sense of sensation deprivation in a sense - because it artificially reduces the possible external stimuli, invisibly reduces the various sensory information that people can receive.
The Pelican Bay prison cell, which is covered on all sides by cement walls, latimes.com
The damage of sensory deprivation to a person's health depends on the degree of deprivation and the duration of deprivation. Going back to the challenge of confinement mentioned at the beginning of the article, although it does not completely restrict people's movements, 30 days is undoubtedly a long-term, harmful sensory deprivation for healthy people.
In that room, there were no windows and clocks, depriving the participants of a sense of time; the immutable small room, the quiet and unable to communicate environment, also greatly isolated from external stimuli. This not only easily leads to negative emotions such as anxiety and depression in participants, but also affects the complex thinking activities of the brain and causes audiovisual hallucinations when serious, which greatly endangers people's mental health.
Last year, such experiments on Internet platforms were halted. 丨 Screenshot of the web page
Because of the anti-human nature of the lockdown challenge, such experiments on Internet platforms were halted late last year. Man is a social animal, and we may have adapted to cope with external stimuli in our genes, which is also an indispensable ability for human beings to survive in a complex natural environment.
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