how do blind people survive without developing mental illness?

they don't

You can do a rubik's cube without looking at it. If he can do this he will be able to keep track of his moves on the rubik's cube and provide mental stimulation.

This is probably true for a few people - I used to be able do it in well under a minute and hardly ever checked. But if you can't confirm that you have done it the first time, then you might go crazy just wondering if you have started it from a bad place the second time.

And then the next time..


...but - and I just googled it - there is a braille rubik's cube - so he could do that.

FWIW my dad was totally blind for the last 15 years of his life (diabetes).

I always thought he did amazingly well mentally. He even trained himself to walk on his own with a prosthetic leg by the time I was in first grade, and would insist on walking my bicycle to the bus stop all by himself so I could ride it back home alongside him. We even had Braille dominoes, playing cards and other tools to make imprints, but they were crude at the time.

But yeah, being blind is nuts. He told me a lot of horror stories about nasty accidents with seeing-eye dogs back when the gov't thought animals were better guides than humans. And he also told me there were a couple of suicides at the Commission for the Blind school where he was rooming when he first lost his sight.

Sorry for the derail... just thought it might be relevant since I lived alone with a blind person my entire childhood.

How hard do you cry when a Chainsaw thread gets some momentum?

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I mean being blind is tough enough if you train for it but someone who did no training for becoming blind and not allowed human interaction is definitely going to be mentally strained more then a regular person going blind (which is usually progressive).

I hate to break it to you, but there are many, many people who go blind after being able to see. They live in the dark for the rest of their lives and very few of them go insane because of it.

If it wasn't difficult nobody would bet $100k. Its astounding how many total pussies in this thread think that some sort of permanent psychosis is the inevitable result. He can leave at any time, he gets food delivered. There are literally thousands of people locked up right now in solitary confinement who have it worse for years.


I'm with him, money in escrow, my $50 to your $5000 for anyone who says it cant be done.

Imagine having no internet for 30 days. I’d be out $100k by the time 3 hours was up.

I legitimately LOL’d. Thank you.

You are really comparing being blind to this where you sit with no interaction for a month? You know blind people move around and stuff?

This sounds like a really stupid idea. 100k ain't even some lifechanging money you should risk your mental health for. Even if you were living under the bridge.

You just basically described prison and people do that for free. Well no internet though so your task would be even easier.

Wouldn’t take the bet if I had to put down money. Would try it if I was freerolling for a milli. I know for a fact I would fail and would probably walk out after a couple hours. Have a little background story. Went to a skiing/drinking trip northern Finland for a week. Polarnights appeared there and it was pitch-dark. We drank, used sauna, had internet and tv, but was in isolated cabin. Did go to nearest town twice for shopping and that was that. I was pretty much burned out by the end of the week and couldn’t wait to get back home.
This bet is like 50 times or more of what I experienced and I seriously think accepting even money is brain damaged. You literally have to be a monk to pull this off. It’s the combination of things that make it close to impossible. Isolation, no communication/sounds, darkness, boredom, mental part. Dear god.

Is it possible to fashion some sort of crude clock from these items? I can't think of any way that doesn't involve knowing how long you've slept, but if you know how long you've been asleep, you could probably work out/test in advance how long one of these items would take to cool down in the fridge and then get back to ambient temperature once you take it out, and while away your days doing that? You'd have to judge the temperature by touch (or maybe one of the toiletries would freeze at the temperature of the fridge?), but might be accurate enough to measure number of days to within some reasonable error margin?

This is purely a thought experiment, I am with those who think this is impossible without going insane. I'm just thinking what I would do in this situation if the door were locked.

Will the live stream camera just be total blackout? Or will it be like the bathroom bet just showing the door?

I would do way longer than a month if the money was decent.

Well that's what we do most of the time here.

I'll do a year for 100k... 30 days is childs play.

^lol. 100k not worth giving up a month of life IMO (maybe more if you consider resulting complications). Maybe 1m would be borderline

You must rake in more than $1,2M per year then. Besides if you work 40 hours a week then a month is 57% sleeping and working so you lose less time in there and that number goes up by a lot.

I'm going to get blasted for this. There's zero studies out there that involve the subject being offered a large sum of money by friends for staying in solitary confinement. 99.99999% of studies are people who are dealing with the harsh conditions of being in prison.

That’s fair - I would assume that two sick-minded poker players didn’t consider getting scientists involved prior to starting this. Certainly a missed opportunity for “science”, and maybe the “patient” could have collected a risk-free stipend for participating

Here's a BBC clip from where they had people in the dark for 48 hours and they already started hallucinating and mental tests showed significant deterioration.

https://youtu.be/0nnekxGE0nM

It's not a simple linear function. Or, if you DNCY, what about I offer you 100k for a month of only eating human excrements? Do you also have to earn over 1.2m/yr to decline that?

Not really the same at all. These people had no food for 48 hours. They had no rubiks cube or paddle ball either. No activities to do.