Would you accept being locked in an empty room...

[QUOTE=DatDudeD]hell.... i was in a holding cell for 12 hours and i was bugging out, i think it was just the whole idea that i might have to be there for a while that scared me. It was cool though i had a drunk homeless guy Reassure me that i would be out within a few hours......:D[/QUOTE]

Yeah this is sort of my point. While the two circumstances are entirely different, your reaction and attitude might be the same. On one hand you know there will be a positive outcome (money), and on the other you have no idea, but it's primarily negative. However, the realization of having your every day freedoms taken away from you for a certain amount of time is gut wrenching.

This is why I pose the question. If some of us that have been locked up were freaking out after a few hours or days, imagine a year. I have a strong belief that the feeling of hopelessness would come around in either situation.

There are people in prison who have done it for years.

[QUOTE=AirGauge23]There are people in prison who have done it for years.[/QUOTE]

Well yeah of course, but that's entirely different. They have no other choice. I'm sure they all freaked out at one point or another. Those that are stuck there are just used to it by now. The issue here is, how many of us can hack it without going crazy in the process?

[QUOTE=Patrick Chewing]Well yeah of course, but that's entirely different. They have no other choice. I'm sure they all freaked out at one point or another. Those that are stuck there are just used to it by now. The issue here is, how many of us can hack it without going crazy in the process?[/QUOTE]

They give them meds to keep them under control.

If that was part of the equation here, it would make it more tempting.

[QUOTE=AirGauge23]There are people in prison who have done it for years.[/QUOTE]

Except for most of them get lunch\other prisoners etc. Unless your talking about the hole or another part but even than would somebody actually be stuck in a room for a full year without any breaks or talking to anyone? I doubt it but not really sure.

I'd attempt it but fail. I'd go insane. You'd need atleast an Ipod or something. Sitting in a room doing nothing for that long would probably make you off yourself.

ahhhh so does this mean once you agree to go in, that there is no backing out of the deal at any point, even if you're forfeiting the cash?

this one thing aspect is HUGE. think about it....imagine if you were closterphobic and only found out once you were already locked up?

*Better state if this is a padded room or not because 1/4 of us would be bashing our heads in haha

Exercise could get you through it. If you happen to be religious and have memorized tons of prayers, that would help too.

[QUOTE=PistonsFan#21]... On an island with no internet, TV or friends and without seeing anyone for a whole year for $10 Millions?

You would be provided with necessary food and all the necessary stuff to survive, just totally cut off from society in an empty room with no noise.

This is a question we got asked in one of our college classes for a study[/QUOTE]

I could and would do it for a million. I've taken trips alone to non-English speaking countries a couple of times already so I could definitely do something like this.

How many times do you think you'd jerk off? Sitting in a room alone for a year. That has some serious potential for 5+ a day :oldlol:

Here's a fairly interesting article (it's long): [url]http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/30/090330fa_fact_gawande[/url]

[QUOTE=NuggetsFan]How many times do you think you'd jerk off? Sitting in a room alone for a year. That has some serious potential for 5+ a day :oldlol:[/QUOTE]

No Internet, no TV for porn....gotta be very creative to jerk off to very limited resources. :lol

Can I at least go outside to shoot some hoops or can they bring in a hoop in my room lol. I go crazy if I dont hoop for a week.

A little excerpt from that article:

"The rules also permitted him to have a radio after thirty days, and, after sixty days, a thirteen-inch black-and-white television.

That's lot harder than it seems. Most people will go completely nuts after a year in a room with no sound, daylight and sense of time.
Hell, convicts break down after a month in isolation

I do a lot of driving, and even 3-4 hour road trips by myself make me go crazy sometimes.

Too much time to think is a horrible thing for me.

[QUOTE=Patrick Chewing]Question. For those that think they can hack it, have any of you ever been locked up? Prison? Jail?[/QUOTE]

basically this. i've done a couple years. never been to prison but have over 3 years of wasted days and wasted nights of my life gone in the county jail.
Not 3 years straight, but 3 years of my life. in and out, in and out. it's a messed up cycle when your caught up in the system and everytime you get released you know your basically on the run until you get busted again. No proper place to go, so you so what you know how to do. you go where you know you can go. Selling Meth guys. Meth is a horrible thing. When I was 18 I got snitched on and got locked up for sales of a controlled substance (meth) and possession of a controlled substance. (meth) Both felonies. I got a year in the county. You do only 2/3rds of your time. So 8 months bro. (after that it was probation violation after violation. Racking up new charges randomly and never reporting. running the streets. In jail for 6 months here then 30 days here then 4 months there... it was ridiculous.
I wasted 10 years of my life really.
(3 locked up and about 7 just out of my
mind smoking meth and selling drugs.)

What I'm trying to say is.. I don't know if any of you really know what it's like to lose your freedom. It's a hard thing to accept. I've been in trouble inside jail too. I've been to "the hole" I got 10 days in the hole once. It's not a hole, it's just another cell. It sucks man. Yes you stare at the walls, but even then you get 15 minutes for a shower every other day and you can talk to people through the walls and what not. I'm calling bull-sh*t on all of you kids that are acting like this would be no problem. Esp. without human interaction. In jail it was WAY easier than the scenario described in this thread. In jail you have books, paper, pen, commisary, t.v., phones, visits, jobs (kitchen/laundry/janitorial crew .. etc. .) to keep you busy and get into a program to get you through. A routine. . without a great routine to keep yourself busy . . man there is no way . . . I'm saying nah man I couldn't/wouldn't want to do it.



(I'm coming up on 5 years clean next march. been out of jail for 5 years.
my life is better now in case you were wondering ....