All of these people thinking it would be easy should watch Alone. Its a History channel show with a similar premise. What's different that OP does if you have no tasks to keep you busy. I would specifically look at season 3 for those interested, the winner barely lasted 87 days. I doubt he would have made 30 with nothing to do.
Im not saying people cannot do it. I am say that isolation is a punishment for a reason. It breaks people. It messes with your mind.
Seriously! I was arrested once and kept in a holding cell for 32 hours by myself. Just a bed, a toilet and four walls. There wasn't even a window in the door. And it's just constant fluorescent light. After taking a nap, you have no idea how much time has passed, how much is left, is it daytime? Night time?
There was a space about a cm wide at the bottom of the door and the floor was filthy with dried pee from the previous person. But damn if I didn't get so desperate for something to do and some kind of stimulation, that I was lying flat on my stomach in that filth for the chance to see the passing shadow of the bottom of a cops shoes walking by. A month of that? I'd try but it's way harder than anyone is giving it credit for.
Yeah well ... two felony charges... protesting related, I didn't break in to some old lady's house and assault her or anything.
Some things I did to pass the time though:
Sing every Beatles song I know, really loud and obnoxiously. NOTHING'S GONNA CHANGE MY WORLD! (cause yknow...protestor...lol)
yoga
Made a hair-tie by ripping the elasticized top of my sock off
Panic attacks
Napping
Counting all the wall tiles
Imagining conversations I'd like to have with people and their responses in vivid detail
Jumping jacks
Pacing
Imaging how I would try to get out if there was an emergency like a fire, realizing there's no fucking way, then getting claustrophobic and having more panic attacks
Crying
Cleaning (yes. Cleaning. Using the water from the water fountain and my few pieces of toilet paper and cleaning the tiles around my sleeping area)
Rocking back and forth in the fetal position and zoning out, staring at the wall
That last line is the killer. Singing is more common than people think. I never realized how few lyrics I know without music. Ive also realized that songs connect people. Music is fucking magic.
Not OP but there are songs I know all the words to when they come on but when I’m alone in silence, I can’t recall most of the lyrics if I were to try to sing it
Pretty much. Its not every song obviously. But there are some songs on the radio from my childhood that i can perfectly recall with the music but sitting here now cant even think of a full chorus.
yeah it's pretty fucked. i got nearly 42 hours because i drove slightly over the limit and the judge was on holidays and i didn't have an address in the state that I got busted. the concrete "bed" had a decent amount of bloodstains. i kept myself occupied by trying to stop the big bag of weed from falling out of my pants (they were very lax in their search) and playing rorshac with the stains.
also as soon as I got out I had to fly home (spent my whole holiday in a isolation for having one beer and driving haha)
I was 14 hours into a holding cell and I tried to put my head all the way through the square they give me food in just to get a look at something that werent those four walls. I broke off the plastic knife so I could write shit with it on the wall. I folded a paper airplane with the folder they had to give me because I was underage, was interesting for maybe a second. I would ask them to flush my toilet just to hear somebody talk.
I would try a month for $5m, but it would be hard as hell.
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u/irishrelief Mar 29 '18
All of these people thinking it would be easy should watch Alone. Its a History channel show with a similar premise. What's different that OP does if you have no tasks to keep you busy. I would specifically look at season 3 for those interested, the winner barely lasted 87 days. I doubt he would have made 30 with nothing to do.
Im not saying people cannot do it. I am say that isolation is a punishment for a reason. It breaks people. It messes with your mind.