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excalibur127
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The Mindbox - A cardboard Isolation Chamber!
#18799187 - 09/04/13 01:14 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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The Mindbox A cardboard Isolation Chamber!After seeing those impressive isolation chambers and hearing about their fascinating effects, I came up with a simple and cheap design of my own. The idea is simple: to isolate your head from any external interference without actually strapping anything to it. So no masks, no shirts, no ping pong balls on your eyes! The design is easy: you take a cardboard box, cut an opening for your head and make some holes for ventilation on the back. Then you perfect it to your liking, lay back, put some earplugs in and put it on your head... and there you go! Instant isolation chamber!  Be careful with those isolation holes: if you cut them too big, you will end up letting too much light through. You can try attach little roofs above them to block the light or do what I did and attach tubes to the holes and just point them to the sides. It works like a charm and it gets really interesting while tripping! Very personal, heavy mindtrips which rely purely on your imagination. Don't stay in too long, it may drive you crazy after a while! But if you feel you're up for an adventure through your mind, the Mindbox will give you a blast! Feel free to post any improvements, experiences or your very own design! Happy tripping!
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Universe
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Re: The Mindbox - A cardboard Isolation Chamber! [Re: excalibur127]
#18799420 - 09/04/13 02:17 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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That's ridiculous. 
Blindfold and ear plugs will do the job. It's dark and you can breathe fresh air.
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Universe
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Re: The Mindbox - A cardboard Isolation Chamber! [Re: Universe]
#18799544 - 09/04/13 02:49 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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When I lived at home my room was upstairs and my parents were too lazy to ever come up, so my friends and I did whatever we wanted. Next to my room was a small linen closet. I took out the bottom shelf and it as the perfect size so that one of us could sit in it with the door closed. We called it "The room of life".
During the week I would splice together some cool music, sound effects and other audio on my reel-to-reel tape deck and on the weekend we'd trip and take turns going into the Room of life with headphones, with a long extension cord going to my room, plugged into the stereo. While in the Room of life we'd take a lighter and small bowl packed with weed, or we'd take the bottle of RUSH. It was fun to spin the flint on the lighter to see the flashes of light.
Taped to the inside door of the Room of life was this Bob Dylan picture - that's what I'd see when I flashed my lighter.
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druqs
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Re: The Mindbox - A cardboard Isolation Chamber! [Re: excalibur127]
#18799559 - 09/04/13 02:51 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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where can i buy this?!
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Shroomopotamus
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Re: The Mindbox - A cardboard Isolation Chamber! [Re: excalibur127]
#18799639 - 09/04/13 03:08 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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-------------------- * Live by the mushroom, die by the mushroom
    This is a trap! A trap! You are all busted! Busted! You fools!
If a time comes where I fail to appear I've been abducted and I will miss you all Please smile and pet puppies as often as possible Be happy Be nice (<3);}
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Re: The Mindbox - A cardboard Isolation Chamber! [Re: Shroomopotamus]
#18799671 - 09/04/13 03:15 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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the guy kind of looks like a pair of hair straighteners.
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Global_Roaming
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Re: The Mindbox - A cardboard Isolation Chamber! [Re: druqs]
#18799819 - 09/04/13 03:55 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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My poor man's sensory deprivation approach:
 Wax ear plugs
 Contoured sleep mask that allows you to open you eyes and blink - let's in no light when adjusted properly. My girlfriend calls it my face bra.
Combined they do a good job of focusing my mind and potentiating the trip. All from Amazon.
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Re: The Mindbox - A cardboard Isolation Chamber! [Re: Global_Roaming] 1
#18799856 - 09/04/13 04:04 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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this os funny, but your literally missing the most important part (being buoyant in a brine solution and eliminating "all" external stimuli)
if you have a huge bathtub you can mix copious amounts of epsom salt in body temp water( that will quickly cool) and float with the lights off and No sound other than your heart beat and blood pumping.
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excalibur127
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Re: The Mindbox - A cardboard Isolation Chamber! [Re: bishlap]
#18801936 - 09/05/13 03:13 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Masks don't work for me because I cannot open my eyes and gaze into darkness. The contoured mask would work though, but try finding one, it certainly is cheaper cutting that box up. @bishlap This is a poor man's solution, literally costing you 0 bucks if you have a cartboard box around and really who doesn't? IF, and that's a big IF, you have a huge bathtub AND you BUY copious amounts of epsom salt, AND you can make your bathroom 100% lightproof, then yes, you could do that. But I don't have a huge tub, nor can it be made fully lightproof.
Whatever works for you guys, if you have a contoured mask you can do that but I prefer not to have anything against my face, it starts itching at times and works too distracting for me.
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Re: The Mindbox - A cardboard Isolation Chamber! [Re: excalibur127]
#18801971 - 09/05/13 03:35 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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ROFL! I am so baked right now and man this idea made me crack up!!!
I think its pretty genius though lol
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excalibur127
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Re: The Mindbox - A cardboard Isolation Chamber! [Re: Blazer420]
#18801975 - 09/05/13 03:37 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Put the box over your head and GO WILD MAN 
Oh and I forgot to mention: a possible improvement I did was paint the box black inside just to make sure no light would be reflected. It's optional but I had paint laying around so I just did. Does give a nasty smell, make sure to leave it outside for the smell to vanish if you do!
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Re: The Mindbox - A cardboard Isolation Chamber! [Re: excalibur127] 1
#18802020 - 09/05/13 03:59 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Huff some paint while you are in there 
-------------------- ~ I used to get high on life, until I realized life was cut with morons ~ * You need 2 wake up and smell the music! * -We are all computer data in a materialistic world- |Sometimes you have to lose yourself, to find anything|
 
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Re: The Mindbox - A cardboard Isolation Chamber! [Re: druqs]
#18802185 - 09/05/13 05:52 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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druqs said: the guy kind of looks like a pair of hair straighteners.
LOL I wouldn't have known that was a person had it not said Dude above it lol
@universe hahaha the room of life. Nice on.
This thread made me laugh. OP, I like your idea!
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Re: The Mindbox - A cardboard Isolation Chamber! [Re: VivaLaMushie]
#18802813 - 09/05/13 10:53 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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See the deprivation tanks work so well because the saltwater gives the illusion of weightlessness
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excalibur127
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Re: The Mindbox - A cardboard Isolation Chamber! [Re: Agentchewy]
#18802861 - 09/05/13 11:05 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I wholeheartedly agree but sadly I cannot afford one even if I did have the space to put it here. On a sidenote, an acoustic isolation chamber seems to be crazy as well, albeit a bit scarier. You end up hearing your own heartbeat and all that nasty internal stuff that goes inside your body. Heard it's quite difficult to stay inside of one for longer than an hour...
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VivaLaMushie
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Re: The Mindbox - A cardboard Isolation Chamber! [Re: excalibur127]
#18802968 - 09/05/13 11:33 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I was talking about this head in a box idea to my friend and we thought of putting on a light show while we took turns w our heads in the box, I'm thinking that we may be able to see a little bit of light through the cracks so maybe it'll look like shooting stars
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Re: The Mindbox - A cardboard Isolation Chamber! [Re: VivaLaMushie]
#18804234 - 09/05/13 05:16 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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hey op, line the box with a cloth material, it will help absorb sound waves. Treat sound like you would imagine dropping a pebble into still water, it works very similar.
Whoever mentioned a "real" isolation chamber 
I can post up some detailed plans to make your own if anyone is interested (no, it is not a 30 min process nor cheap). Took forever to find them, they are the ones on flebay for $10...
oh, hanging some blankets on the wall/ceiling of a closet might be more practical... and might not look as weird if someone walks in
-------------------- One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the dark conscious. --Jung
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Re: The Mindbox - A cardboard Isolation Chamber! [Re: j_db69]
#18804922 - 09/05/13 08:09 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Why couldn't you just turn the lights off?
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Re: The Mindbox - A cardboard Isolation Chamber! [Re: Staplerhead]
#18804959 - 09/05/13 08:23 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Staplerhead said: Why couldn't you just turn the lights off?
As you remove more of your senses, meditation becomes easier. It's like turning off your vision AND your hearing. The real deprivation chambers help to also eliminate the sense of touch by suspending you in a dense liquid. Like being in a calm infinite ocean
-------------------- One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the dark conscious. --Jung
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druqs
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Re: The Mindbox - A cardboard Isolation Chamber! [Re: j_db69]
#18805399 - 09/05/13 09:56 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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If it Fits i Trips?
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