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Title: Fan Death
Post by: Foxy Brown on December 30, 2006, 09:55:11 PM

Fan Death is the belief that if someone is sleeping in a sealed room (windows and doors are closed) with an electric fan on, they could die. (http://www.fandeath.net/)

Title: Fan Death
Post by: Mikitty-saikou on January 02, 2007, 04:00:30 AM

.....o_O Skeptical. I've slept in my room with the fan on with doors/windows closed plenty of times.

Title: Fan Death
Post by: delerium on January 02, 2007, 04:24:24 AM

It's a pretty widespread myth in Korean culture. It was even told to me by my mom. xD

Title: Fan Death
Post by: shadowstar on January 02, 2007, 05:18:00 AM

Well I never slept in a sealed room with the fan on, but I stay in one pretty much everyday (I turn on the airconditioner when going to sleep). Both windows and doors closed, and the fan almost right beside me.

Title: Fan Death
Post by: LaJon on January 02, 2007, 08:54:53 AM

I have a box fan going while I sleep.  Blocks out any noise outside my room, and the sound helps me sleep quite a bit.  Door closed, windows closed.  Been at it for as long I can remember, and I'm still here.

Title: Fan Death
Post by: Slack on January 02, 2007, 09:22:58 AM

Ah, but unless you're Korean, the whole being-alive thing is moot, isn't it?
(lol)

Title: Fan Death
Post by: ctz on January 03, 2007, 03:00:49 PM

I have to ask about this my korean neighbors :)

Title: Fan Death
Post by: NAzu on January 03, 2007, 05:43:31 PM

Seems pretty farfetched to me.

Title: Fan Death
Post by: crazychickencow on January 03, 2007, 07:04:26 PM

What's the reasoning behind it...?

Title: Fan Death
Post by: realemotion16 on January 04, 2007, 03:34:07 AM

I know I can't sleep at night without a fan running, it blocks any noise that might keep you from falling asleep. For me, it's been a habit for a few years now, hehe.

Title: Fan Death
Post by: RionZ on January 04, 2007, 03:40:31 AM

weird, I thought this was gonna detail someone with the phobia of Fans...and how to cure it...but yea...didn't expect this... lol

Title: Fan Death
Post by: chera on January 04, 2007, 09:16:34 AM

Silly Korean urban myth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death).

Bullcrap about the electric motor burning all the oxygen, or the air motion creating a partial vacuum, or the fan blades chopping up the O2 (oxygen) into O (ozone).

Probably something thought up by makers of air-conditioners.

Title: Fan Death
Post by: crazychickencow on January 04, 2007, 09:31:11 AM

...That is some crack-head stuff right there. :lol:

Title: Fan Death
Post by: Slack on January 04, 2007, 06:53:55 PM

Only reason I could possibly come up with was a possible electrical shortage and the government wanting the people to turn off the damned fans.  Of course, I'm paranoid like that.