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by okcando 2452 days ago
An almost perfectly black and almost perfectly anechoic chamber with almost zero external sound.

Peaceful or nightmarish?

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Wouldn’t a pitch black room achieve the same effect with much less cost/effort? As far as I know the idea of these compounds is to absorb light, but if you get rid of light to begin with then you don’t need them?
You don’t experience black in absolute darkness, more of a very dark static-like fizzling grey. In order to experience the deepest black, you need to contrast it with something lighter.
I guess the main difference would be your ability to see your own body, and the light source.

Darkness is probably more disorienting, but also more familiar.

OK, wise guy.

There's a single bare lightbulb suspended out of reach in the void. The walls feel like ScotchBrite though you can't see them. You aren't wearing any clothes. The room begins to rotate slowly as if it were a large tumble drier, rolling you off your feet. The walls gradually turn red.

Peaceful or nightmarish?

The difference is that you could have a light on in the uberblack room and you wouldn't see the walls.
The last I heard about anechoic chambers, most people can't stay in them for very long, apparently it's incredibly unsettling after a while.
It's really not that bad. Some people find it unsettling, but many find it kind of relaxing. Derek from Veritasium has a good video on it for the interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXVGIb3bzHI

I have been inside a large anechoic chamber and it was very weird experience and it was only a partial anechoic chamber and had a normal floor.
Both.
Just need to add lsd
With a sensory deprivation pod in the middle would be interesting