The popular explanation is that it only opens for the pure of heart, but that was a myth spread by a group of the first people to successfully open The Box to big themselves up. A lot of people still believe this though, and many aspiring Boxcavators (as you know, this is the term for people who open The Box) waste their time doing things like volunteering for charities in an attempt to make themselves more pure of heart.
We don't know for sure but the current best explanation we have is that it's got something to do with how many times you thought about shrews prior to your 15th birthday, but it's proving difficult to experiment on because when people have been instructed to think a lot about shrews we can't be sure if it's multiple thoughts, or if continuously thinking about shrews counts as just one single long thought.
Dogmantra wrote
The popular explanation is that it only opens for the pure of heart, but that was a myth spread by a group of the first people to successfully open The Box to big themselves up. A lot of people still believe this though, and many aspiring Boxcavators (as you know, this is the term for people who open The Box) waste their time doing things like volunteering for charities in an attempt to make themselves more pure of heart.
We don't know for sure but the current best explanation we have is that it's got something to do with how many times you thought about shrews prior to your 15th birthday, but it's proving difficult to experiment on because when people have been instructed to think a lot about shrews we can't be sure if it's multiple thoughts, or if continuously thinking about shrews counts as just one single long thought.