What If You Had to Spend a Year at Home

slam the door behind you closes shut and the key turns in the lock someone pushed you in the back and you fall head first on the floor it's dark something's covering your head you realize your hands are finally untied so you carefully take that thing off what the you throw the sack away and look around astonished it's your apartment someone grabbed you put a sack on your head drove you for the better part of an hour took away your smartphone and then threw you back in your home you get up and notice a small piece of paper on the floor next to the door you pick it up unfold it and read the words written on it 365 days then you're free chilled inside you grab the door handle but it's stuck you check the windows next but they have shutters a new addition well let's investigate what it's all about day two turns out you have a fridge full of food for a week and access to the internet but can't reach out to anyone except with text messages even worse everybody thinks you've gone to another country and even your boss allowed you to work remotely your messages asking for help transform as soon as you send them so you can't tell anyone the truth you're on your own now and a feeling of despair starts to gnaw on you day seven you're in the hall looking at the front door frozen in terror there are two bags of groceries big enough to keep you going for a week right in front of you someone must have come at night and left them there's a note too saying 358 days shaken you take the bags to the kitchen and start unloading them into the fridge the first week of your isolation wasn't bad at all though previously your life was divided into good old 9 to 5 and weekends and you were stuck in the routine just like so many others now you've built your own schedule and enjoy it no more early commuting to the office and late coming back you sleep more and sleep better too because you're not worried about being late you can turn on your laptop just as soon as you open your eyes in the morning and pretend you've been busy if you're actually late what bothers you just a little bit is a lack of human interaction luckily you've never been much into parties and stuff so music and podcasts help cope with the absence of live human voices day 30 someone keeps coming every week during the night leaving food for the next week he wanted to catch them and stayed up two nights in a row once but no one came yet once you gave up and fell asleep you found the bags in the morning as usual meanwhile the new daily routine starts to get at your nerves you can't go outside and stretch your legs properly so you tested your captors and ordered a treadmill online it came during one of the weekends at night with a bag of groceries figures but the worst is your inability to talk with anyone okay you're an introvert but even you need some live communication once in a while begin feeling really lonely day 60 after two months of total isolation you started talking to yourself there are still online chats but they don't feel like you're talking to real people anymore being cut off from the world you're more stressed out than ever every little trouble seems huge and makes you either depressed or angry you've also gained some weight under this much stress you needed something to let off the steam and started eating more favoring sweets and snacks your captors don't seem to mind your diet either when you're running low on food you get new bags even if it's not time yet to let your mind off the budding depression you've been thinking of a way to catch them when they come next you've laid an elaborate trap at the front door a contraption you didn't even think you were capable of making now all you have to do is wait for guests day 63 the trap was genius but it ultimately failed somehow your captors still came in without being caught and what's more they carefully dismantled the whole thing and neatly put all of its parts in their places in your home what snobs you left them a note saying please clean the apartment next time day 70. they did day 90. whatever you felt up to this moment has gotten much worse you've been trying to cope with depression and stress with food music yoga running on your treadmill movies and video games but the initial excitement of every new activity leaves you very quickly you sleep a lot but still wake up groggy as if you didn't just take a 12 hour nap when you're awake nothing interests you anymore you do your daily job automatically chatting with colleagues and the boss without any inspiration and the last time you wrote to your friends or family was two weeks ago you just can't think of anything to talk to them about one thing that actually entertained you a bit was asking your captors to clean your windows in another note you were pretty sure they would and they did but they also left a note it said cleaning in your bedroom was awkward mind moving your bed away from the window next time day 180 you don't know when it happened but you somehow lost interest in everything even yourself you stopped combing your hair and grew a shaggy beard pieces of food get stuck in it when you eat but you don't care you walk around the apartment in your pajamas and don't remember when you last changed them worse you don't even enjoy food anymore you just drink your morning joe when you get up but you don't remember why good news you've lost weight bad news you often forget to eat during the day at all and you keep getting thinner those bags under your eyes are notable too you're almost always sleepy yet sleep just won't come more often than not you lie in bed tossing and turning for hours only to get up and back to work even at night but your productivity levels are at their lowest anyway you can't focus and often blankly stare at the screen good thing your job doesn't require a lot of creativity day 240 you've completely lost track of time since you've been trapped inside your home the date on your laptop says it's been eight months but weeks pass is one long never ending day your condition got even worse you can't sleep in your bed now as soon as you lie down your body starts aching all over whatever position you take with your lack of healthy nights you start getting episodes of micro sleep you just zone out for a few seconds and then wake up with a jolt once or twice you caught yourself right before sending an email that you didn't remember typing at all the text in it was complete gibberish something you dreamed of no doubt today you looked in the mirror and didn't recognize yourself you were looking at a stooped guy thin as a stick with an unkempt beard and hair and an unhealthy power the eyes were the worst though dark and lifeless you turned away fast date 270 you're working after another sleepless night when you hear the key turning in the front door's locked this never happened before and a long forgotten feeling of excitement springs up in your chest you get up from the chair and walk to the hall part suddenly racing a nicely looking woman in a suit with a case is standing there taking off her shoes you look at her with your jaw dropped she's the first live person you've seen in almost a year you croak hello and it feels coarse in your throat for the lack of practice the woman nods and invites you to the living room you both sit opposite each other and she produces a photo from her inside pocket when you see it everything rushes back to you ten months ago you met with financial troubles and were seeking a way to pay your bills you came upon a flyer that said a group of scientists were looking for volunteers to participate in a social experiment the pay was good so you immediately applied and were deemed eligible the experiment involved a year of complete isolation from other people apart from texting you were also to lose all memory of the arrangement you were supposed to think it was all not your own idea for the stress to be real but now dr willard that was the woman's name decided to end the experiment prematurely because of your worsening psychological condition bill spent the remaining three months getting back to your normal life under constant supervision by doctors with that the woman takes out a hefty envelope from her suitcase and hands it to you you open it and see a thick block of money inside your pay says dr willard you absolutely deserve it

Channel: BRIGHT SIDE

Views: 2,171,280

Keywords: bright side, brightside, bright side videos, living in isolation, reclusive life, how hermits live, what hermits do, modern-day hermits, life of hermits, social isolation, how to live in isolation, living alone, social isolation effects, strange experiment, how isolation affects the brain, what isolation does to the brain, what isolation does to you, what isolation does to your mind, strange experiments in psychology, without human interaction, bright side what if

Id: ttdGx2HfxfI

Length: 9min 29sec (569 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 25 2020