The podcast I listened to covered two main focal points. The
first of the two being Sleep No More, a British play and the Stanford
Prison Experiment. As I listened to this podcast I thought of two main
ideas that covered both parts of the podcast. When you are put in an
unfamiliar place you may sometimes act and think differently and in some cases
you are even unaware of your doings.
The first segment of the podcast covered the British play Sleep No More. It was about a one of a kind theater that was
co produced by a man by the name of Felix Barrett. They started off by a bouncer asking to see
each and everyone’s photo ID, but would not tell the people why. They were then directed down a dark alleyway,
which then lead them to a very nice bar scene with a jazz band playing. Already to me this seems like something very
different to me. I would feel out of
place and confused. After being at the
bar scene for a while they were given very elegant masks and had all of there
belongs taken and were given a few rules to follow including no talking to one
another. They put the masks on and
entered the theater. This was not your
ordinary theater this theater was an old warehouse that was multiple floors.
They were told they could wander around to any of the several scenes that were
set up. This is where I then realized
that people acted and thought very differently when in unusual situations. While the people were going through Barrett’s
play they would seem to think things that were happening were real. For instance there is a scene where one of
the actors was falling and it was reported that almost every time one of the
audience members will run over and save them from falling. Another example is a woman saw a dress
hanging on the wall so she just went over and grabbed it for no reason as if
she was going to change into it. This
play is so intricate and diverse compared to anything else that it just puts
people in such a different mindset.
At some points during the play
experience people would do things and literally had no idea that they were
committing an act. The example I have
from listening to the podcast was there is an actress behind a glass wall
dancing and all of a sudden this women, one of the audience, starts throwing
anything she can find at the glass where the woman was dancing. When pulled aside she claims she had no idea
she was doing that. The other example of
this came from the Stanford Prison Experiment.
The volunteer prisoners and guards were doing things that would be done
in an actual prison. The guards actually
thought they were patrolling a prison and were yelling and curing while the
prisoners were crying in agony. And when these volunteers were interviewed
after the experiment ended, they had no clue of some of the things they were
doing, let alone forgot that what was happening was not real life, it was only
an experiment.
As I listened to this podcast my
mind went through so many different thoughts and so many different scenarios. People get lost in their own mind and don’t have
any physical control while their mind takes over. Being put in an unfamiliar place and asked to
do certain tasks or watch strange things and your mind thinks differently and
you act in strange ways and in some cases you don’t realize what you are doing
because your mind just takes over.
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