For those who don't recognize the topic or my username maybe you'd like to refer to the other topic before reading below
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=25582820
Anyway let me just say that I cannot believe how terrible the process of going through this was, I mean it's water dripping on your forehead, it seems so insignificant but honestly I couldn't even come nowhere near my goal of 12 hours. I think the recorded time was 1 hour 46 minutes and 11 seconds.
The way it worked was I was strapped down with duct tape on one of those hospital rolling beds you'd find in an ambulance or ER room.
My arms and legs we're securely strapped down and to prevent me from jerking my head or lifting it up I agreed that the tape would wrap around the corners of the bed pinning my hair down so my head would be nearly immobile, impossible to avoid a single drop.
My roommate basically took care of all this and even got us a chemical lab to do it in, he slowly turned the fire sprinkler so that only a drop would drip every few seconds. My friend was also interested and agreed to help my roommate monitor me every once in a while.
At first I was calm and just patiently waited for each drip, for the first 10 minutes I was ok, but as time progressed I was growing slightly irritated at the water coming into my eyes but that was only a problem every once in a while.
30 minutes into it I noticed my way of embracing this was changing, instead of watching the drips come I was now anticipating every drop waiting for the next one, predicting the exact moment it would fall. For the most part I was right and the more I anticipated the more frustrated I would get if it didn't drop at the exact second of my prediction.
About 1 hour into it, I was ready to quit, I was very irritable, not to mention I took out my frustrations on my friend and roommate. Every time I asked how long it had been they'd tell me and I would just cuss "WHAT HOW THE **** COULD IT HAVE ONLY BEEN 30 MINUTES....etc"
I said I was done but my friend convinced me to keep going because I had only done a fraction of my goals I agreed but very reluctantly I don't want to go into great detail of this part.
So a little later than that the spot on my forehead where the water was landing was growing sensitive, it wasn't painful, but I could tell that the water was doing some very minor damages onto my forehead. By the near end of it, I was red in the face because I was repressing a lot of anger and frustrations, I was hot, sweating a little and I just started screaming at my friend telling him "you'd better ****** get here and take me away from this ***damn sprinkler or I'll beat your ass into the ground.... etc etc"
My roommate and friend set my limbs free and used scissors to cut off the hair that was pinned down, I heard the final time and I just was so angry at how bad I did, my blood was boiling, I got light headed, it felt like termites were feasting on my back.
I looked in the mirror with disgust and noticed a fainty red dot on my forehead. I think the torment of this experiment came from my failed predictions, every drop that came down I just kept on saying "NOW" at the moment I was sure it would drop, and however many times I was right, it meant nothing because there were too many where my predictions proved faulty.
The worst of it was that those failed assumptions only added to my anguish and complete disappointment of failure when I heard that I did a fraction of what I hoped. In the end being off a couple of seconds for every drop doesn't compare to being off more than 10 friggin hours from my anticipated goal.
I now understand why this technique is nearly 100% effective, I swear I woulda lost my mind if I kept going, I feel a little nuts right now, I don't even like thinking about it but I can't stop thinking about it, but I'm sure I'll be fine in a couple of weeks. I'm seriously sitting here and my blood level rises the more vivid my memory recalls this agonizing event. If you guys have more questions you can PM me but I won't answer them right away I really need to get my mind off of this.
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