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Quietest Room On Earth Causes Hallucinations
(Credit: Orfield Laboratories)
If you’re looking for a serious challenge, I recommend heading to the Orfield Laboratories in Minneapolis, Minnesota where they have an anechoic chamber, a room that cancels out 99.99% of all outside sound. So what’s so special about this room? Well, for one thing, NASA uses it to accustom astronauts to the silence of space. But what they found out was that when there is an absence of sound, the human ear needs to find something to listen to.
You see, we are so used to hearing things, from the birds singing to traffic to music to the weather, that if we don’t hear anything, our ears will strain to hear whatever it can. This includes our breathing, the skin on our fingers rubbing together when we move our hands, and our heartbeat. As time progresses, people then begin to actually hallucinate.
According to scientists at the facility, nobody has ever made it past 45 minutes in the room without needing to exit and hear sound again.
Personally, I would LOVE to go to one of these rooms and see how long I could last. What about you? Think you could make it longer than 45 minutes?
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The Lost Boys: A New Musical officially kicked off on Broadway last month, and Deadline now reports that the show’s Broadway run has been extended into next year.
The show was originally set to run through November, but Deadline reports that The Lost Boys: A New Musical “has released a block of tickets through Sunday, March 7, 2027.”
The news comes in the wake of The Lost Boys: A New Musical becoming the most Tony-nominated musical of the season with twelve nominations including Best Musical.
Additionally, “The Lost Boys will launch a North American National Tour in Spring 2028, at Playhouse Square in Cleveland. Additional cities and tour dates will be announced later.”
The Lost Boys: A New Musical is of course an adaptation of the 1987 horror classic from director Joel Schumacher, with the cast including Ali Louis Bourzgui as lead vampire David (originally played by Kiefer Sutherland), Maria Wirries as Star (originally played by Jami Gertz), and LJ Benet as the soon-to-be-turned Michael (originally played by Jason Patric).
The horror musical’s cast also includes Shoshana Bean as Lucy Emerson, Benjamin Pajak as Sam Emerson, Paul Alexander Nolan as Max, Jennifer Duka as Alan Frog, Miguel Gil as Edgar Frog, Brian Flores as Marko, Sean Grandillo as Dwayne, and Dean Maupin as Paul.
The Lost Boys: A New Musical is Directed by Michael Arden, featuring Music and Lyrics by The Rescues, Book by David Hornsby & Chris Hoch, Story by James Jeremias & Janice Fischer, and Produced by James Carpinello, Marcus Chait & Patrick Wilson (The Conjuring) by special arrangement with Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures.
When a mother and her two teenage sons move to Santa Carla in desperate need of a fresh start, they soon uncover the darker side of this sunny coastal community. While Lucy tries to piece her family’s life back together, Michael keeps pulling away in search of belonging.
As he finds connection with a local rock band and its charismatic leader, his younger brother Sam comes face-to-face with a terrifying reality: When night falls, Michael’s new friends are even more dangerous than they first appeared.
Joel Schumacher directed the original The Lost Boys vampire movie in 1987, wherein two brothers move to a new town and discover that the area is a haven for vampires.
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