Currently holding the\u00a0Guinness World Record<\/a>\u00a0for the world\u2019s quietest room, the chamber is said to absorb around 99.9 percent of sound.<\/p>\n To give you an idea of just how quiet the\u00a0chamber<\/a>\u00a0is, the average room measures around 30 decibels at night, while the room at Orfield Laboratories comes in at an astonishing -20 decibels.<\/p>\n Now you may think that spending time in perfect silence could be a refreshing change from the chaos of daily life, the complete absence of sound said to be completely unnerving to visitors.<\/p>\n It is officially the quietest room in the world – meaning visitors can hear every grind, crunch and squeak their skeletons make.<\/p>\n Most people can’t stand to stay in there for more than a few minutes, as the silence is well and truly deafening.<\/p>\n It’s so quiet, that those inside essentially ‘become the sound’ – hearing their hearts beat and blood flowing through their bodies.<\/p>\n The world’s quietest room is located in Minnesota. (Orfield Labs)<\/cite><\/div>\n The chamber is a six-sided steel double-walled box, encased in 12-inch thick concrete and even more layers of steel.<\/p>\n It’s supported by vibration absorbing springs to stop even the slightest sound infiltrating the eerily silent room.<\/p>\n Large chunks of fibreglass are also wedged along the wall to help reduce the amount of echo.<\/p>\n The room, designed by Steven Orfield, is primarily used to conduct experiments and measuring the noise of products.<\/p>\n But it has become an unlikely\u00a0tourist<\/a>\u00a0attraction in recent years among daredevils who want to listen in on the inner working of their body.<\/p>\n Even if you think you’re hard enough, it doesn’t take long for visitors to be humbled by the power of peace and quiet.<\/p>\n Orfield explained: “We challenge people to sit in the chamber in the dark. When it’s quiet, ears will adapt. The quieter the room, the more things you hear.<\/p>\n “You’ll hear your heart beating, sometimes you can hear your lungs, hear your stomach gurgling loudly.<\/p>\n “In the anechoic chamber, you become the sound.”<\/p>\n It is so silent that visitors can hear their hearts beating (Orfield Labs)<\/cite><\/div>\n If the mind-boggling silence doesn’t get you first, the disorientation will certainly knock you down a peg or two.<\/p>\n People often loose their balance in the room as they are unable to steady themselves due to the lack of sound, Orfield said.<\/p>\n If you plan on spending around 30 minutes in there, you have to be sat in a chair.<\/p>\n Orfield himself admitted he can only last 45 minutes inside his creation – which is a mean feat considering he has a mechanical heart valve thumping away.<\/p>\n But it seems silence is in high demand, as he revealed the laboratory is still inundated with requests from ‘thousands’ of people from across the globe.<\/p>\n “There is no sceptical reaction, as this is simply a bodily experience, and there’s nothing to learn or believe,” he said.<\/p>\n A\u00a0YouTuber<\/a>\u00a0managed to spend a whopping one hour and 26 minutes inside the chamber – but said\u00a0he began hallucinating<\/a>.<\/p>\n Complete and utter silence is surely enough to send anyone around the bend.<\/p>\n But if you’re still curious and somehow want to check it out for yourself, you can book a trip to the chamber.<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&quality=70&width=3840&fit=contain&gravity=auto&url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/bltcd74acc1d0a99f3a\/bltfd4ffce644a58176\/653298ebb0835f6010b6e1ba\/worlds-quietest-room.webp\")
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