The Man Who Lost Time: Michel Siffre’s Terrifying Cave Experiment

  The Man Who Lost Time: Michel Siffre’s Mind-Bending Experiment in Isolation What Happens When You Live in Total Darkness for Six Months? In 1972, French scientist Michel Siffre locked himself in a pitch-black cave, 440 feet underground, for 180 days. No light. No clocks. No human contact. His goal? To uncover the secrets of the human mind and its relationship with time. What he discovered was nothing short of time-bending.   The Obsession with Time Michel Siffre, a geologist and researcher, was fascinated by how extreme conditions affect human biology. He believed the key to unlocking the mysteries of the mind lay in its connection to time. To test his theory, he devised a radical experiment: complete isolation in a cave with no external cues to track time. No sunlight. No clocks. No external reminders of day or night. His mission was to find out: How the brain reacts to total isolation What happens when we’re cut off from natural cycles Entering the Aby...