The rules are simple: accept the offer, and once a month—without any warning—you’ll fall asleep like usual, only to wake up on an abandoned cruise ship, drifting alone in the middle of the ocean.
You’ll find yourself in a basic cabin, nothing fancy. There are no electronics to distract you—no TV, no phone, no internet.
For entertainment, you’ll have 50 random books in your language, spanning all sorts of genres—from math and science to novels and fiction. You’ll also get a notebook, pens, colored pencils, and blank paper, just in case you want to write down your thoughts or create some art during your time in solitude. But that’s about it. Your cabin will also have medicine in case you get sick during your stay.
The ship is completely empty, and you’ll be on your own. It’s on autopilot, and it will always be nighttime. Dark skies with no sign of daylight.
The lights on the ship are motion activated in every corridor and room. They’ll shut off 30 seconds after any movement stops, except in your own cabin, where they stay on. If you venture to the top deck, you’ll find the lights on, letting you explore. But all you’ll find up there are a few lounge chairs, and that’s it.
When it comes to meals, you’ll have to head to the dining room. A table will be waiting for you, with a random dish served at each meal—breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It could be something you don’t like, or if you’re a vegan, you might find meat on your plate. The catch? You must eat everything you’re served. If you refuse a meal, the deal is off. You’ll wake up with nothing, but only after you’ve completed the full 30 days on the ship. As for drinks, you’ll only have water available to you, there will also be a water dispenser in your cabin for convenience.
The weather will change throughout your stay. Sometimes it’ll be calm, other times you’ll be caught in a thunderstorm or the ship will sail through rough, turbulent waters.
If at any point you can’t take it anymore and want to leave before the 30 days are up, there’s only one way out: you’ll have to find a way to die. And you’ll feel every single second of pain before it ends.
But if you manage to hold onto your sanity, you’ll wake up in your own bed after 30 days aboard the ship. And here’s the twist—though it’ll feel like a whole month has passed, only eight hours will have passed in the real world. And when you wake up, $40,000 will be waiting for you in your bank account.
Then, just when you think it’s all over, you’ll get a text message with an offer to do it all over again next month. But you’ll only have 15 minutes to decide and reply. Take too long, and the opportunity will be gone forever.
So.. the choice is yours. Will you accept the deal, or walk away from it?
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Copy of the original post in case of edits: The rules are simple: accept the offer, and once a month—without any warning—you’ll fall asleep like usual, only to wake up on an abandoned cruise ship, drifting alone in the middle of the ocean.
You’ll find yourself in a basic cabin, nothing fancy. There are no electronics to distract you—no TV, no phone, no internet.
For entertainment, you’ll have 50 random books in your language, spanning all sorts of genres—from math and science to novels and fiction. You’ll also get a notebook, pens, colored pencils, and blank paper, just in case you want to write down your thoughts or create some art during your time in solitude. But that’s about it. Your cabin will also have medicine in case you get sick during your stay.
The ship is completely empty, and you’ll be on your own. It’s on autopilot, and it will always be nighttime. Dark skies with no sign of daylight.
The lights on the ship are motion activated in every corridor and room. They’ll shut off 30 seconds after any movement stops, except in your own cabin, where they stay on. If you venture to the top deck, you’ll find the lights on, letting you explore. But all you’ll find up there are a few lounge chairs, and that’s it.
When it comes to meals, you’ll have to head to the dining room. A table will be waiting for you, with a random dish served at each meal—breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It could be something you don’t like, or if you’re a vegan, you might find meat on your plate. The catch? You must eat everything you’re served. If you refuse a meal, the deal is off. You’ll wake up with nothing, but only after you’ve completed the full 30 days on the ship. As for drinks, you’ll only have water available to you, there will also be a water dispenser in your cabin for convenience.
The weather will change throughout your stay. Sometimes it’ll be calm, other times you’ll be caught in a thunderstorm or the ship will sail through rough, turbulent waters.
If at any point you can’t take it anymore and want to leave before the 30 days are up, there’s only one way out: you’ll have to find a way to die. And you’ll feel every single second of pain before it ends.
But if you manage to hold onto your sanity, you’ll wake up in your own bed after 30 days aboard the ship. And here’s the twist—though it’ll feel like a whole month has passed, only eight hours will have passed in the real world. And when you wake up, $40,000 will be waiting for you in your bank account.
Then, just when you think it’s all over, you’ll get a text message with an offer to do it all over again next month. But you’ll only have 15 minutes to decide and reply. Take too long, and the opportunity will be gone forever.
So.. the choice is yours. Will you accept the deal, or walk away from it?
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eh okay
To clarify, I can die to get out of it early, right? Like I won’t stay dead
Does the ship stay consistent between visits? Like, if I move stuff around does it stay moved? (Relatedly, do the books on it reset each time?)
Will I magically also remember the last day clearly when I return?
Do I age during this time? If no, then yes I take it
Fuck yes. I’ll take it.
I need my alone time and a 1:90 ish time dilation seems awesome.
The only problem I see is the food. I’ll make the assumption that I wouldn’t be served something that could actually kill me.
I assume the “random dish” served to me will be real food? If I get served human shit that might not be worth. Otherwise, sure.
I might pay the 40 grand so I can do this
I accept it. a 30 day vacation once a month? Sure sometimes food might be a issue…but…if its regular food then maybe not. Sure maybe its fish on occasion-which NGL not a fan. But if its worse then death? Yeah no. So…40K.
Which ALSO means that for the other 30 days you experience you have no money worries?
This is heaven.
So, I assume that I’m not going to be served something that can kill me, right? Like if I have a severe food allergy, that’s off the menu, right? And do I have to worry about being hit by lightning? Like if am I immortal if I’m not trying to die?
As long as I’m being served edible food that won’t make me sick (and by that I mean eating it won’t make me sick not whether I like the taste), I’m game.
You underestimate how antisocial I am
To me that’s 4x my current pay and I get half my time off
Where do I sign
Will there be heroin provided on the ship for those of us with raging opiate addictions as part of the ‘medicine’?
If so count me in.
I mean you gotta at least try it once. There’s no downside.
$40k and a month off every other month? Sign me up!
You have time to think about your problems. Time away from your family will help you appreciate them more (or you’ll appreciate the ghost ship more!) No responsibilities other than eating and not dying. And it’s a hydrohomies paradise!
Plus, being on the water is just the best. There’s a reason rich people have yachts.
throw in a feeling rested and I’m in.
Yuuuuup. That’s almost 12 times my current monthly salary so absolutely. Plus it’ll help me detox from technology and I might even get to develop a nice hobby.
In a heartbeat, yes. It sounds like a dream come true. In fact, I’d do it for $40. Hell, I’d PAY $40.
I would totally do this!
Yeah. For sure.
Some similar questions as others
(1) Do I remember everything in my past clearly before this boat trip?
(2) Do I stay the same age (I don’t age at all when I’m on the boat – I go to sleep at 37y, 265 days and wake up 37y 266 days)?
(3) Will I remember what happens on the boat, including everything that I’ve read or studied?
(4) Am I safe to assume I won’t be served anything that I am allergic to?
If yes, absolutely. It would be a welcomed break from the chaos of life/work.
I’m curious about the ‘ghostly’ part of this. Is the ship haunted? Are we talking about horror movie levels of discomfort here, or is the ship benign and merely abandoned?
Do I remember the content of the books when I awake?
I would do it. Would be fun and given some of the weird dreams I have had in my lifetime, might not be that different.
How long? Not sure but I would aim for 3 or maybe at least 6 months. Depends on how bad it is each time.
What’s the downside?
What’s the downside?
Can I pay for a drink package?
Sign me up!
I’m in. Sign me up.
I love the ones where people think solitude is somehow a deterrent.
Sure, let’s do it. I’d love to be able to just gaze up at the stars on a clear night, and here I’d be able to do it whenever I want when I’m on the ship.
I can do it, but what would really bother me is no music. If they could pipe in some music, yeah! No problem. Books, & music, the solitude would be great.
You had me until the part about the food. There are many things I can’t eat without being incapacitated. (Have you ever had to take pain medication because you’d had a bit of corn in vegetable soup? I have. And don’t get me started on cabbage.)
This sounds amazing. I love spooky shit; this allows me to experience spook and be rich.
I’ll take the deal. 50 books is more than I can realistically read in a month and free food is free food. I have to ask, though. If I speak multiple languages, do I get 50 per language or split evenly among all of the languages?
I feel like I’d want to be absolutely sure there was not any other living thing on that ship with me. Walking through a dark, quiet ship like that, with the lights only going on when I enter the rooms? My imagination would run wild… I’d spend a lot of time freaked out something was going to get me, unless I knew for certain I was alone.
Someone taking this deal only to find out once on the ship that something else is there too sounds like a great plot to a horror story.
am I supposed to be scared of this? I’d take it in a heartbeat
I am in, I love being out at sea. I need to catch up on some reading any, been slacking
This sounds great? Sure I’m in.
Too easy. A month to chill out and do whatever I want? And I get paid for it? I’m doing it every month
The meat is a deal breaker for me, but everything else sounds amazing, like a month of holidays every month
For sure. If I workout during the whole 30 days to I get to keep my new found health benefits when I wake up?
I would have a hard time with this, I often only eat 1 meal a day, I just don’t get that hungry and can’t finish everything anyways.
Omg, yes a hundred times. I see zero downsides.
I’d try it at least once.
Question about the text message method, asking if I want to go again – you say I have 15 minutes to reply, is that from my phone receiving the text or from me reading it?
Yes.
I’m going to hope that it doesn’t know my food allergies and try to sabotage me. Otherwise I probably die and lose.
This will be fairly easy for me. I spent a lot of the last three years working from home and living alone. Definitely had regular spans of 2-3 days where I uttered a dozen words in total. I like reading, writing and art and I’m not a picky eater. It’ll have an adverse effect on my mental health, but one I know I can tolerate and bounce back from. $40k a month fairly dramatically changes my life. I can do this for at least six months, maybe a year. My motivation to get an extra 480k in my bank account after a year is extremely high. Maybe I’ll stop when I own a house, a car, fill out my retirement and have a million or two on top of that. I think it would be harder for me to stop doing it than do it, honestly. It’s tolerable work with high reward.
definately do it at least once.
I’m a picky eater, but 40k a month changes my life so drastically for the better. I’ll fucking deal with the meals, and I love to read so yeah let’s go.
Going into it knowing and expecting this to happen at some point, yes I’m taking the deal. What happens if I accidentally, unwillingly die on the ship?
Only one notebook? And can I bring the contents of the notebook back with me?
Get your checkbook.
This actually sounds petty fucking cool. Would the prescriptions I need to survive still be available during my stay there?
Im in.
A full month alone every month without getting older, time to think, time to write, time to study, time to sleep 2 days in a row; sea adventure some times.. sounds like a dream. I love food and theres not a plate I wouldnt eat, as long as its food.
You bet.
I sleep for eight hours, but I get 30 days all to myself with books?
And I went to catholic boarding school, so I can eat anything that isn’t poisonous.
Why not? That solitude would be nice. I wouldn’t do it forever, probably just long enough to be able to buy a house and get good at drawing. Yeah, why not.
I’d do that for half the money. But since you’re offering the 40k, where do I sign?
I think I could deal with sleep paralysis, once a month for $40k each month.
YES
I will try it at least once.
30 days of just relaxing but only 8 hours passes in real life. I wonder would this be like a vacation from no responsibility but all in your head.
Yeah, that sounds like a great deal. 500k a year. It would only be tough if you got it two nights in a row for example on June 30 and July 1
Ill do it but I’m sad theres no ghost chick’s 🙁
Wait, a WHOLE DAMN MONTH of peace and quiet to read books and doodle, SIGN ME UP
Fuck it, I’ll make this my new full time job and keep repeating it.
$40k and 30 days of silence sounds like a dream. The only downside is occasionally having food I don’t like. Sign me up.
Does it feel like i slept a month when i wake up? Shit..ide take 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep. So sign me up.
Bro. I get to read, learn, and sail the seas for a month every month and it actually is like no time passed? As long as those books are real books written by real people and the information therein is scientifically accurate and/or actual novels/poetry written by actual authors…
Go to sleep one night, wake up and code a new video game or beat Jeopardy, or win and argument with your mother in law using books she reads.. or whatever lol
Everything is an upside except maybe the food
Will they serve nasty things like live insects or maggot cheese or something?
Also, do I biologically age 30 days or 8 hours?
Your average cruise ship is fucking enormous, so even if the weather is shitty, I likely won’t get bored because I can always go exploring. If I get drawing materials, I’ll likely be able to become an artist after a few months of this. Most importantly, that shakes out to $480K a year just to do nothing but endure some loneliness, occasional seasickness and random food. I could do a lot of good with that much cash. Sign me up!
I’ll take it.
The worst part of this is it could happen on last and then first day of the month. Anything within a couple days of each other and it would feel like you’re stuck for 60 days.
This is an interesting scenario! Do we age on the ship? I don’t want to get old twice as fast 🤔
I could very much entertain myself completely under those circumstances and am an introvert. I’m also not much of a picky eater and would love the chance to have peanuts again. As long as the food is considered edible/palatable by a majority of the world (ie no pigs brains or belut or bugs), then I’d probably do this for years!
Free cruise!
Deal
Do I know that the ship won’t sink? Like I don’t want to be on this thing and it Go all Poseidon adventure on me. And the food like what if I get served cow brain like 5 days in a row. Eh…
So if it’s a full month does this mean I’ll Need to sleep? Also if I decide to exercise and use free weight will
My body get any better or are you in a stasis where nothing actually changes?
But then the question would be if you train your mind during this time why not the body?
Sounds kind of awesome! I love reading just about everything and being alone with my thoughts. Would give me plenty of time to brainstorm book ideas. Do I get to keep anything written down?
I also love just about all foods. Honestly, I would do this for much much less.
40k and a vacation score
Can you bring what you’ve written out with you?
This sounds like a great way to unplug and reset my brain once a month and get paid for it. Sign me up.
Give me some cannabis seeds and some dirt and you have basically come up with my dream of a perfect life.
Easy yes
I would watch this movie!
I’ll try it once. Read, exercise, lament the fact I can’t cook my own meals. If I make it thru the first month I’ll go again.
Seems nice, but can get pretty lonely. Would feel amazing waking up to your regular life, everything and everyone would be so interesting. The $40k a month would guarantee my comfort for the rest of my life too.
Id probably take the deal every month. Will the night sky be normal? Or just black void?
Do I have to eat the entire plate or just take a few bites
That’s more than what I make in a year, I don’t have to cook, and I can sleep for 30 days?! Holy shit I’m doing this every month.
hell yeah that sounds sick
Do I retain any information I learn from the books?
Sweet deal. Doing it for a year real-time nets you $14.6M.
Misread the prompt. Thought this was an every day thing. Anyway, that’s still $480k/year, which is over 10x what I make.
Most of it sounds good, but I am turning it down due to meal conditions. The cruise line food director is more fucked up than I am about food, and that is saying something.
Will it serve an amount of food i can actually eat? Cuz… regular portions are enormous to..
That’s doable. Especially for 40k. Now, it wouldn’t be pleasant, especially after a few days, but I would do it. Lots of reading time, exploring the ship, doing art. I could fill up my time. It might be good to be detached from the Internet for a bit.
I would definitely try it the first time. I think the solitude would verge on maddening by the end, and I doubt I could keep this deal going for more than two to three months, but even if I just do it 3 times, that’s enough to pay off my debts and get my daughter’s college fund into high gear.
Not too bad for 90 days of boredom.
I would other than the food thing. I have allergies and getting served food that could trigger one of them is a no go.
Also, what if someone doesn’t want to eat at that time or is still full from the last meal?
I take it. Assuming there’s no issues with foods I can’t have in real life affecting me the same way on this ghost ship, I just make sure to hurry through eating if it’s something I don’t like and then down whatever beverage I have after to wash the taste out of my mouth. I can also survive just fine without eating a couple of days, so by doing that, I can conceivably minimize the chances of getting something I won’t be able to stomach.
Man, if they serve me brussel sprouts im so screwed. I HATE them
I’ve had night terrors before, for free, so fuck yeah let’s go!
Do you have to eat three times a day? Or do you just have to eat everything you’re given when you go up for a meal?
It would be awesome if I could bring the art/writing back home with me. Otherwise it just feels like being raised by strict (clean your plate) but absent parents. You don’t mention it but I assume there is a shower and a change of clothes in your cabin.
Isn’t there supposed to be some sort downside or trade off? I’d pay to do this.
I think the lack of sun would be the biggest problem for me but I could make it work. A lot of time to read, make art, do yoga. And I wouldn’t have to work outside of this obligation. Does the ship have a pool/can I swim in the ocean?
This is not only great for the money, but getting an extra 30 days of vacation through this sort of time dilation means that you’re also essentially living twice as long! You get to read lots of books, meditate, exercise, write, draw, and then you go back to real life where you don’t have to work and can enjoy a luxurious life.
Even without the money, the deal is attractive!
Yeah, it’s got downsides but overall a positive. While you may not be able to take writing and drawing with you, can still build skills there, and while the random books might not be a great selection, it’ll be something. I’d probably spend a lot of time working on art unless i got lucky with the books.
Sign me up
Read halfway and went “gimme, I’d fucking love this”
I’m having a hard time seeing the downside to this?
Only issue is sea sickness.
If there’s no sea sickness then sounds honestly like a pretty cool time to just read and enjoy the boat.
Plus the premise is laid out that nothing can harm me or spook me on the ship so meh it’ll be like my own private yacht.
I would take this except the horror movie Ghost Ship was the most scary movie I’ve ever seen. I wouldn’t be able to stand it because I’d be terrified.
Heck yeah! Sleep eat and read!
Oh shoot. What happens of during a storm you get swept overboard? Is the deal off?
Once and I’m debt-free, three times and I can down-payment a house. After that I play it by ear.
Hell yeah.
It’s just a ship on auto pilot? It’s not haunted or nothings trying to kill me?
Doesn’t seem all that bad.
Way I see it even once would be life changing for me so I see no reason not to do it at least once
Yeah.
There’s no actual ghosts or danger outside of mental strain, and it takes no time away from my actual life. 30 days straight in an admittedly creepy setting is a lot, but I do enjoy my alone time, and I also enjoy not being poor dawg. 480k a year is worth it
Plus there were no mentioned parameters about not being able to tell anyone so I mean, it might be hard to believe at first but I’d straight up tell my partner who might be waking up next to me that hey once a month I might wake up and just need some time to settle back into reality lol if they question it I’ll just show them my plush ass bank account and lack of a job. I’m cursed baby, but soon we’ll be rich
FREE CRUISE!! I’m down!
So you mean I can freely jerk off for a whole month? And get free food? AND nobody’s nagging? AND get paid to do it? Where’s the catch?
What if you’re full before you finish all the food? Does that count as finishing your meal?
It would be like falling asleep and dreaming, but for what seems like an eternity. I’m in.
The plain water is the nope for me… no coffee for a month, thanks but no thanks.
I’m in. Do the books change each month? Will they be in genres I like? Can I get at least 80 books? I can finish off a 400-page book in about 3 hours, and I’m going to need large print. Does the art come home with me? Can i have snacks in my room? I’m a grazer, I rarely eat full meals. Also, can I get diet pepsi instead of water? Do I stop aging? What about my daily meds I have to take?
Anyway, yes. I’m in. Each month.
This sounds like a dream 😅
Sign me up. A month of reading and relaxing every month and get paid.
This sounds like Heaven to me, I’m in.
Yes, please. I’ll take that no hesitation.
i’d take the deal, couldn’t be too bad
Yes, I’ll take it, as long as all this is explained to me and I go in knowing. Otherwise, I wouldn’t know, for example, that finishing the food is mandatory, or that I am entirely alone but the ship will keep going without issues even in storms. Don’t know if I would accept it a second time, but surely a first
I am an extremely extroverted person. So spending a month alone with nothing to distract me but books seems deeply deeply unpleasant. I’d definitely do it once and see how things go. Probably wouldn’t do it every month though. Maybe a couple times a year. Would definitely depend on how tortuous it was and how it impacted my real life relationships with my friends and family.
Do the books change each time? If so, easy yes for me. I’ll wake up from a mini vacation without any friends or family feeling left out and potentially be learning all sorts of new things from these books.
I don’t think I’d want to go much more than a month at a time though.
I’ll take it as long as vomiting the food back up doesn’t disqualify me. I’m autistic and have had pretty major textural issues with certain foods my whole life, e.g. chewing certain vegetables can make me nauseous enough to throw up, plus I taste bitter things very strongly and so some things that don’t taste bitter or barely at all to normal people make me sick.
So every month I get an extra month of pure alone time to be creative and think and relax — and I make $480,000/year in addition to whatever else I’m earning? Yes.
First off, yes I’ll do it. Secondly… there’s two faults in your logic.
You said if I don’t finish a meal the deal is off and I’ll wake up in my bed. So death is not the only option.
You said 30 days but days never pass. It’s always night.
Where do I sign it lol
I think people are really overlooking the part where you could be on a ship smashing through giant waves in the dark while being served a rotation of fried tarantula, surstromming, and casu marzu. For what feels like THIRTY. DAYS. You’re not necessarily being fed food that you’re used to or from your own culture. You’re just as (if not moreso) likely to have a bad experience during these 30 days as a good one.
I’m an introvert and the isolation sounds great… until I’m alone, crashing through the dark, thinking I’m going to die in the waves… I’d definitely try it out, but depending on the scenario, I’d meet my scenario match at some point 😅
This is literally a real life dream scenario. I can’t get 5 MINUTES alone, and you’re offering a MONTH? I don’t even have to cook? AND I’m getting $40K? There has to be a catch.
Deal
I’m taking the deal
Id consider doing this for free if the food and bevs are good enough & i don’t have to steer the ship.
Every month 40k extra…a full night’s sleep and getting to do nothing but walking and reading and eating and exploring. Can even explore every part of the cruise ship. Sounds good
Yeah that’s chill, as long as I don’t are on the ship
It actually sounds pretty good. I live alone, I’m good with solitude and no responsibilities for a month to read, write and draw sounds like a vacation. I’m a picky eater, but even if I do t like the food that’s a pretty easy job for $40k.
Sign me up
You mean I can get paid for this?
No coffee? Forget it.
Would the books be skewed to be more likely to be more popular/useful books? Cause there are A LOT of nothing books that get published. Getting stuck with my only entertainment being like horny romance novels and picture books would be nightmare. So long as I end up with actually good books this whole thing actually sounds quite nice!
Being on the ocean is lovely. I’d take this up in a heartbeat. I’d probably only do it a few times because 30 days alone with weird food would get old. The creepy aspect is irrelevant to me as there is no real danger.
I mean, I’m going to say yes because the only ghost is the chef, but out of curiosity, if I super workout during ship night month, do I get buffer in regular life? How do periods work? Is there a clock or does it just go by meals and sleeps? Am I screwed if I oversleep a meal, or does it show up as I arrive to the dining hall? Is there a ghost?
When do we start?
Sure. Sounds ok.
You say the only way out is to die on the dream ship, but you actually gave another less scary way…. Just don’t finish a meal and the deal is off and you wake up in bed.
Sort of weird that you gave an easy option out, then even mentioned the whole dying thing.
I would accept just to sit around waiting to see how the food ends up on the table
I assume any workout I do will be negated, or can I take up jogging or something and come back a little healthier?
If I exercise every day do I keep the gains?
Oh hell yes!
Every fucking time!
Can we volunteer for every night rather than just one per month?
No pay needed by the way.
I think you just nearly described heaven.