Hah..way to completely miss the point.

This bet is a piece of cake compared to the bet when Matusow said Esfandiari couldn't work in the furniture store for 1 year.

Lol - care to elaborate then?

Are you alluding to the patient being driven by a $100k cash prize as opposed to prisoners having no prize?

Or the fact that this person can leave solitary confinement by their own free will (for $100k fee) while prisoners can’t leave solitary confinement?

Ya cuz people are pussies when they look at actual records of people in solitary confinement and other scenarios like that. You call them being pussies, we call it doing science research. You drew the line in the sand bro, you picked the stupid side.........

Holy men in India do a 2 week solitary retreat, it sounds like they lose their mind too. Lots of breaking down and crying and the breaking down of you ego. If you're not ready for it, you can get mind ****ed. I'd imagine a holy man has a stronger resolve then some random prisoner and I'm talking about a real holy man that actually train in all sorts of way like Sadhus, yogis, monks not some bible thumper type.


Even these people have mental breakdowns, some random in the US is gonna more than likely have a weaker mind, body, emotional disposition than some holy man that trains every day in all of those areas.

In the holy man solitary retreat they had light and probably more space then a bathroom and they still lost their minds. I'm curious is anyone has studied this yet as I'm sure it's been around for 1000s of years like most of their training methods.

The world is full of people who go way longer than a month with no human interaction.


Its obviously a combination of things. Not seeing light for a month would be easy. Sitting in a room with no human interaction for a month would be easy. Living in a bathroom for a month would be easy. It's only combining all that that makes the bet really hard.

Yeah but comparing blind people and this challenge is just stupid. And those people don't probably just sit in one pitch black room doing basically nothing at all. Agree that the combination of all those things that makes it close to impossible for most of us.

Actually, they received meals and had bathroom breaks. And I doubt playing with a rubiks cube where you can't see the color of any squares will keep you sane for long.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...rs-771767.html

A certain % of people would not go insane. Seems people here are not understanding that.

Maybe the guy betting here had a reason to believe he was a favorite?

So no radio?

The guy betting here isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. As evidenced by this thread, he could have found a much better price with more favorable terms.

The issue here is him being able to leave at any point. There's maybe a few sickos that wouldn't crack under the mental pressure, but most would eventually walk out.

Now if the door was locked it would be much easier.

I would have agreed with you, except I've seen two people in this thread basically said they'd take 100:1 that he'd make it, and noone has covered. So perhaps this isn't as weird as I would've thought.

Personally, I'd be crazy bored after like 2 minutes, so I presume there is something I am missing. The braille rubiks cube idea has alot of merit, and I have to wonder what the hell the paddleboard thing is all about.

http://dark-retreats.com/contact/#.W_8K2JNKhTY

Some folks paying $1k for the same experience so, with the right mental fortitude, this could be done.

Without prior deep experience with meditation and solitude in general though I think he's near drawing dead.


And here's a testimonial of a guy after completing the 30 days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8yGHsHTnA4

I would think that the opposite is true. At least for most people.

Also the guy who is booking the bet should be happy it isn't Huck Seed or Ted Forest.

Very few of these prop bettors that I know of have failed to succeed. Ted Forest lost 50 something pounds. Huck Seed shot 79 at LaCosta. John Hennigan did something similar. And there have been several more. Including Mark Weitzman running a 5:30 or thereabouts mile at approx age 40. No big deal?

https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/...g&action=click

The only thing I could think of to help, would be to turn the faucet in the bathroom to drip a certain frequency into a large bowl or cup and then measure a baseline with how long it takes to fill up. This way you could at least have a somewhat sense of time.

The only way I could see someone actually completing this bet without losing their mind is if they were already used to meditating 10+ hours a day.

I was in solitary confinement for 10 years in a ho chi min camp outside of vietnam during the cold war. I was locked in a 2x2 dark closet chained to the walls. I didn't even have enough room to lay down, I had to sleep standing up. It was pretty hard at first but I soon got used to it and rather enjoyed the solitary solitude.

Is there a reason this persons name is not being revealed?

This chump paid to do it?
Game over, proof enough it can be done and you can come out sane.

my $50 to $4000 of anyone that thinks the man cant complete the challenge.

how did paradise make you burned out

Bedding?

Noises/sounds?

Temperature control?

Drawing dead imo

Maybe the guy doing the bet is pretty confident he can make it. So he bets a relatively small amount of money at really bad odds just to get some hype around the terrible bet he made, so he can bet some real money at better odds now the the bet has gotten more attention.

It would be nice to have a clock to know how much time has passed. But I could see myself starring at the clock every few minutes. And eventually getting obsessed with how slowly time was moving and how little time had passed. A big count down clock would be better.