The dog sound is meant to be triggering. He is intentionally trying to push him to his limit so he uses the safe word
I don’t think the dog sound is real. I think it’s his trauma. As someone with ptsd, I hear birds chirping when I feel uncomfortable in sex. It was hard to get used to them again so I used to wear ear plugs to sleep so I didn’t hear them. I’m fine listening to bird song in the morning but ptsd does wild stuff to your senses.
I suspect that it is real and he is explicitly pretending it isn’t in order to mess with him, it’ll be interesting to see which way it goes!
Drinking game (if you can handle alcohol or not, take a shot of pure concentrated juice lol). If it’s ptsd, you drink and if it’s him messing with him, I drink!
This is clearly some type of sensory deprivation and training. Not only is he using a sound machine but also a bell. He’s making it seem like days are going by, by letting him “sleep” and “wake up” in intervals so when they’re out of the Cabin he’s bed trained on when to sleep. Also not sure where the dog sound comes to play tho.