I Made A SENSORY DEPRIVATION BOX

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]Today's world is so overstimulating. So, I came up with an idea to make a sensory deprivation box, blocking out light, sound, and even invisible radio waves.

[00:00:11]So, to get started, I actually drew up a little draft. And after adding some measurements to my draft to make sure I would fit inside this box, I was off to the hardware store to pick up some supplies. Now, I didn't believe I needed to make my frames super heavy duty, nor did I want to spend a lot of money. So, I went with these 1 by TW's, which were actually relatively cheap, light, and were going to be easy to cut later.

[00:00:32]However, I had to sort through this pile to find some straight ones cuz a lot of them were really bent. Anyways, I went with a total of nine of these, which ended up being a little more than I needed, but they were under like $2 a piece, so it wasn't too bad. Now, my initial plan was to build a 4TX 4TX 4T cube. And with these planks being 8 ft long, my first step was to cut them in half, doubling the amount I had. It ain't rocket science.

[00:00:58]It was the only equipment I had at the moment. Okay, don't get upset with this technique. Just chill. Actually, it worked out really well. So, my idea was to keep it simple. Make all these cut pieces into 4tx4 ft squares and then put the squares around each other into a cube. And how was I going to adhere these together? With screws? With nails?

[00:01:16]No. Gorilla tape. Yo, Gorilla Tape, you really need to sponsor me. I'm like your biggest fan. Like, seriously, look at how crafty I am with this. I already know. Line it up. That's on there over the top. Pow. Buckle it in. Just like that. Boom. Okay. Not the most sturdy, but it's going to get the job done.

[00:01:35]Anyways, I did this for all four corners of each square, and I made four total squares. I actually started with three squares, but I will add a fourth as you will see in a minute. Anyways, keeping it simple, I started to make these squares into a cube using what to bring them together.

[00:01:48]>> Of course, I'm going to tape it together. Come on.

[00:01:50]>> Yeah. So, I just kind of roughly taped these together. Nothing super permanent yet. And then I actually ran out of tape, so I went back to the hardware store to pick up some more. Now, thinking of future steps, while I was there, I also picked up this heavyduty stapler. What? All right, we'll fix that in a second.

[00:02:06]>> So, yeah, upon returning home, the three sides had already collapsed. So, this was indication to me I probably wanted to make a fourth side. Now, briefly taping all of these sides together.

[00:02:15]Boom. Check it. A 4x4x4 cube.

[00:02:21]Okay. A little flimsy, but it was light, easy to maneuver, and this was only the beginning. Now, it was time to source the sensory blocking materials. Now, I already had an idea of the materials I wanted, but I wasn't final on exactly where to source them from. So over the next couple of days, I did a lot of online research trying to find the best cross between quality and price for these specific materials. And now adding in convenience to this equation as well, I ended up going with Amazon. Now, as you'll see later, I actually got more than I needed. But what I did buy at the current time was a 12-pack of these 24x 36-in poster boards, four packs of 24 of these acoustic foam panels, and four packs of this nickel copper Faraday fabric. Now, once unpackaged and allowed to fluff up, these acoustic panels would apparently get to 2 in thick. So, that's supposed to expand. Now, I only unboxed one package. I should have unboxed more.

[00:03:17]Regardless, 24 hours later, boom. They were pretty much expanded to about 2 in thick. Now, before I started putting the acoustic pieces on, I wanted to get the paneling up so they had something to stick to. And for the paneling, these 12 foam boards. And it was here that I changed my mind on the size of this box.

[00:03:34]You see, my initial plan was to cut these boards so that it would fit in the 4x4 square, but I was like, that's going to be too much of a hassle. And you know what? 4x4x4 is kind of more room than I need already. So, why not change the size of the box to where I could just easily put these panels on with minimal cutting. So, I quickly did a little look at it look, a little gueststimation. And my plan was to cut this cube and bring it in on itself so that the height would still be 4 ft, but the width would be 3x3. So cutting a corner out at the top and the bottom, I brought it in on itself. And then after a little more feeling it out, guesstimating, I put a little temporaryish tape holding it together. And you can see now it is conveniently about the width of one of these poster boards laid horizontally.

[00:04:20]And so I did this with two more corners, bringing the cube in to become a rectangular cuboid.

[00:04:27]Oh man, it's really flimsy. It's all good. It's fine. So light. See, that's where it comes in handy. So at this point, with nothing really taped together tight, I decided to use the geometry of the foam boards to hold this cuboid together. And well, I just started stapling the foam boards to the cuboid. And well, the more I stapled, the more sturdy it got. But would you look at that? This geometry makes way more sense with these foam boards. I only needed two per side. I didn't have to cut and shape and try to fit a perfect scenario.

[00:04:58]Oh, dude. This is just so cool. This This is going to do the job. Look at this. I am in the silence box. It is already silent. More silent in here.

[00:05:04]We're not even started with insulation yet. Then installing the roof, which was now the only piece that I needed to cut, which I simply did by stapling into place, scoring with a razor, and then just hammer fisting. Ah, I should be filming myself like doing some measurements and getting a level and just being like, "Oh, yeah. It's perfectly square." Cuz like you're not going to be able to tell on the camera.

[00:05:29]But now we're putting up the sound paneling.

[00:05:32]Oh, it's going to be wild. I think we can fit three to a side here. We can do a little loop around. Honestly, we could even just like that.

[00:05:43]Okay. Oh, that's sticky. So, for the install of the interior sound paneling, I started with the upper corner and then I just spanned out from there, trying to make each panel tight to each other with minimal gaps. And with the full backside of these sound panels being adhesive, it actually made it quite easy and great to go right over the corners. So, I actually got the first two upper layers and then I started doing some of the ceiling, but then I ran out of acoustic foam pieces that I let sit out to fully expand. So, I opened another pack and I wanted to see if I could just install them and let them expand on the wall, but I actually think I want these to expand a little bit more. Well, I decided to wait to let them expand before installing them to hopefully avoid them peeling off the wall as they expanded. So, as I waited for the acoustic paneling to expand, I moved on to an important and interesting part of this silence chamber build, the Faraday cage. hopefully to block cell phone, Wi-Fi, and other radio waves from entering my silence everything chamber.

[00:06:41]That's right, I'm talking near full disconnection from this world. Just wait till you see the final product and wait till I experience it for the first time.

[00:06:50]It was wild. But now, what exactly was this space age looking cloth that I was unboxing here? Well, apparently it's called Faraday fabric, and it's made of regular fabric lined with copper and nickel to, I guess, absorb and disperse low-frequency radiation. Essentially, it's supposed to block EMFs, or at least greatly minimize them from getting through from household sources like Wi-Fi and cell phones. Would it actually work? I was going to test this out after I installed it. So, I actually bought four of these cloths at approximately 43.3 in by 118 in, which was actually pretty much a perfect size on the width.

[00:07:25]I laid one cloth out on the ground. I brought the box over it. I then over overlapped the two cloths for extra coverage and well, just started taping them together. Pretty self-explanatory.

[00:07:35]Just trying to get that full 360 coverage here. And because these blankets were so long, the top got triple covered for, I guess, extra protection. Would it matter? Did it work? Did it block my cell phone signal?

[00:07:45]Let's take a look. So, inside the box, I was still getting Wi-Fi and cell phone signals, but after about 2 minutes, they slowly disappeared until Okay, so I have like this one bar basically. No, we lost it all. Oh my gosh, dude. Dude, we did.

[00:08:04]Okay, look it. I'm coming out here. Look at Oh, it's back online. It's back online, dude. That actually worked. I cannot believe that. Oh my gosh. And there's the Wi-Fi. It's back. Yeah. Take that. I was so stoked that worked and excited to finish this sensory deprivation box. So, the very next morning when my sound panels were pretty much fluffed up, I installed the rest amongst the bottom layer and then on the door.

[00:08:30]Now, some of the sound paneling was coming loose, specifically on the ceiling because I guess it just I didn't stick it hard enough. But that's where the stapler came in handy. Dang, that thing works great. Now, I decided to throw some extra sound paneling on the floor cuz why not? I didn't even stick it. I just kind of put it down. And this is without opening the fourth pack, by the way. Then I put a cotton sheet over the sound paneling on the ground for something comfortable to sit on.

[00:08:54]>> It's weirdly quiet in here.

[00:08:56]>> Yeah, it was already quiet without even closing the door. But I wasn't even done yet with the sound insulation. But first, a quick little test to see what needed to be added.

[00:09:05]>> So quiet in here.

[00:09:08]Not much of a door, but uh All right.

[00:09:11]There's some light, but we'll fix that in a second. It's really quiet in here.

[00:09:16]I am getting a little bit of bleed through right here. You see? I know what I'm going to do to really fix it. And it's just going to be pitch black. Dude, it's weirdly quiet in here. It's just like making me anxious. All right, I need to get out of here. It was already an uncanny, strange experience, and I wasn't even done fully locking this thing off yet. So, to finish version one of this build, first of all, I had this in a basement in the corner where I had earth on the backside and to the side as well. Then I added this extra blanket to the top to hopefully block more sound coming from up to down. And then for some extra foam, I had this tumble track crash pad, which each square is about 4x4 ft. So I used this to further insulate the exposed outside sides. Then I added one more blanket cuz I had it.

[00:10:01]And finally, something very important that I figured out later the hard way, but I'm including now in this video because it's very important.

[00:10:09]Ventilation. Even though this isn't necessarily an airtight chamber, I did find out later the hard way that I got very dense in there. So, I added a couple of PVC pipes for some air flow going out to that second surrounding layer so that the light and sound would still be blocked, but air would be able to get in. And just like that, it was done, ready for its initial test, my sensory deprivation chamber. Now, to run my first test, I thought it would be interesting to track my HRV as I entered and sat in the chamber for a few minutes.

[00:10:42]I feel like I can hear my ears.

[00:10:45]All right, dude. Should I turn the light off? Oh, no.

[00:10:50]Oh, man. What? Oh, dude. The initial sensation was different than I thought.

[00:10:55]I've only been in here for like 60 seconds and I feel like uh I can just walk forward if I wanted to. Even though if I reach my hand out, yeah, I can feel the sound paneling. It's like, dude, you can make the room pitch black at night, but it's like your eyes adjust. There is nothing to adjust to in here. I don't know if I'm feeling relaxed or just like like nervous or something.

[00:11:16]Please turn it on. Turn on. Turn it on.

[00:11:18]Turn it on. Turn it on. Oh, it's so quiet. Like I don't I can't explain it. It's so quiet. It's so dark.

[00:11:27]Get me out of here.

[00:11:33]That is wild. Wow. It feels weird to be out here. There's like echo now, bro. A very uncanny experience at the least.

[00:11:42]And looking at my heart rate data, you can see as I turn the light off inside the box, my heart rate went all the way up to the '9s just sitting there. Now, would I eventually be able to get over this initial shock, detached from the overstimulating senses of this world, eventually give me some kind of therapeutic response? That's what I'm looking to find out in a future video, spending 1 hour a day in this box every day for a week. So, stay tuned for that.

[00:12:09]Don't forget to subscribe, turn those notifications on, stay tuned. Peace. I will see you all in the next video.

[00:12:16]But you got focus.