(It's pretty scary though. Because someone could just administer without trial and you could be innocent and it really feels like 800 years and you don't get food. You are being tricked into doing nothing. Having nothing. Seeing nothing. Eating nothing. Drinking nothing. People are going to go crazy.
He began to wonder why he had felt uneasy at all. It was like a man wondering in broad daylight why a dream had appeared so terrible to him at night. — Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart