Today we celebrate the life of the Bard himself, William Shakespeare. While his exact date of birth is unknown, it is known to be somewhere between the 21st and 25th of April, 1564 and is often acknowledged as April 23rd - the same month and day of his death fifty-two years later. You can celebrate by reading one of his plays, sonnets, or other poems at your local library. You can also read his complete works online.
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When you’re lying here in my arms….And love is all that I need and I found it there in your heart <3
He’s the one I dream of. Looks into my eyes, takes me to the clouds above. I lose control, can’t seem to get enough.
The Quietest Place on Earth Will Drive You Insane Within 45 Minutes
There’s a small room in Minnesota that blocks out 99% of all external sound. That’s an impressive number! Also impressive: nobody can take more than 45 minutes alone in the room before they go nuts.
The Daily Mail describes Orfield Labs’ anechoic chamber—perfect for making extremely sensitive audio measurements. But also perfect for sending you into a hallucinatory hell so hellacious you’ll need a chair:
‘When it’s quiet, ears will adapt. The quieter the room, the more things you hear. You’ll hear your heart beating, sometimes you can hear your lungs, hear your stomach gurgling loudly. ‘In the anechoic chamber, you become the sound.’ And this is a very disorientating experience. Mr Orfield explained that it’s so disconcerting that sitting down is a must. He said: ‘How you orient yourself is through sounds you hear when you walk. In the anechnoic chamber, you don’t have any cues. You take away the perceptual cues that allow you to balance and manoeuvre. If you’re in there for half an hour, you have to be in a chair.’
That sounds swell. Just the serene quiet of you, your thoughts, and the unceasing pounding of the human heart. Your brain can’t take it, apparently, and begins to fabricate sounds that aren’t really there—completely delusional noises meant to block out the churning of your own horrid biomass. (Source)
I’m sorry, that doesn’t sound disorienting, it sounds heavenly.
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