Woman spends 500 days alone in a cave – how extreme isolation can alter your sense of time and why you might want to try it

By Ruth Ogden, Reader in Experimental Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University

A year and half alone in a cave might sound like a nightmare to a lot of people, but Spanish athlete Beatriz Flamini emerged with a cheerful grin and said she thought she had more time to finish her book.

She had almost no contact with the outside world during her impressive feat of human endurance. For 500 days, she documented her experiences to help scientists understand the effects of extreme isolation.

One of the first things that became apparent on April 12 2023 when she emerged from the cave was how fluid time is, shaped more by your personality traits and the people…

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