The quietest room in the world is at Orfield Labs in Minneapolis, and it’s so quiet that the only things you’ll hear are your organs doing their thing—your heart beating, your lungs breathing. If you stay long enough in this anechoic chamber, it’s possible the depth of silence might cause you to start hallucinating. The longest amount of time anyone has spent in the room is forty-five minutes. This form of solitary confinement is powerful enough to break the strongest of men,
