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French volunteers who lived in a cave with no phones or sunlight for 40 days say it was great  Apr 25, 2021, 08:28 PM facebook email Volunteers leave the Lombrives cave after spending 40 days in the cave in Ussat-les-Bains, southern of France, on April 24, 2021. Fred Scheiber/AFP via Getty Images French volunteers have emerged from a cave after spending 40 days with no clocks or phones. They took part in the Deep Time project, which explored the limits of human isolation. Two-thirds of the group say they wanted to stay in the cave for longer. Fifteen volunteers ...

“It was like pressing pause."

April 25, 2021 by archyde Published 24. April 2021, 23:37 In France, 15 people volunteered to be locked up for a study. They found the time without sunlight, news from the outside world or clocks relaxing. 1 / 2 Twitter/ChristianClot Twitter/ChristianClot Two thirds of them would have liked to have stayed longer. The participants lost their sense of time. 15 people came back from a cave in France after 40 days of voluntary isolation. With big smiles on their pale faces, the seven women and eight men left the cave of Lombrives in the Pyrenees on Saturday, where they had spent the last 40 days ...

The group, led by French-Swiss explorer Christian Clot appeared at around 10:30 am (0830 GMT) from the Lombrives cave in Ariege. “It was like pressing pause,” said Marina Lançon, one of seven women to take part in the experiment. In partnership with laboratories in France and Switzerland, scientists at the Human Adaption Institue, monitored the 15 team members’ sleep patterns, social interactions and behavioural reactions via sensors.

Ever wonder what it would feel like to unplug from a hyperconnected world and hide away in a dark cave for 40 days? Fifteen people in France did just that, emerging on Saturday from a scientific experiment to say that time seemed to pass more slowly in their cavernous underground abode in southwestern France, where they were deprived of clocks and light. With big smiles on their pale faces, the 15 left their voluntary isolation in the Lombrives Cave to a round of applause and basked in the light while wearing special glasses to protect their eyes after so long in the