LONDON, AUGUST 15 : Human life is unnecessarily complicated and can often become hard and depressing. When a British conceptual designer Thomas Thwaites met with this realisation, he took a break from being human and become a goat instead.

"My goal was to take a holiday from the pain and worry of being a self-conscious being, able to regret the past and worry about the future," the very own words of the man who spend six days as a goat, living and grazing on the Swiss Alps with actual goats.

Thwaites began with observing goats, memorising their behaviour and learning their ways of communicating. He consulted with experts in animal movements, visited behavioural psychologists and neurologists seeking their help to make him think less like a human and more like a goat.

But when you are about to con a herd of goats, just the mental preparation isn't enough. So our guy got himself custom-made prosthetic limbs with hooves that allowed him to move around on all four legs, just like a goat would do. He even considered having an artificial stomach with actual gut bacteria found in goats so that he would be able eat grass like a goat.

Having made the preparations, he took off to the Alps, convinced a goat farmer to let him spend three days with his herd. He went into the herd donning his goat costume and mimicking the goat movements as good as he can. The other goats were initially wary of the strange-looking new member in their herd, but soon acquainted to Thwaites taking him as one among them.

“I looked up and all the other goats were looking at me. Everyone else had stopped chewing and it was in that moment, when I thought, ‘those horns look quite sharp,” Thwaites describes his experience, ”Luckily, I think I made a goat friend. He made a move, and it kind of diffused the situation.”

He left the herd after three days, spending another three days living as a solitary goat. However, he admits that living as a goat wasn't as fun as he had expected. The cold and rainy weather took a toll on his body and going downhill wearing prosthetic was painful. But nevertheless, he achieved what he was looking for—six days of simple life.

“It was an interesting experience,” he said. “I guess, I just think perhaps it would be nicer to live a simpler life.”

Thwaites is to narrate his experience into a book ,aptly titled as ‘GoatMan: How I Took a Holiday from Being Human’. The book is set to be published in 2016, while an exhibit of his work will be launched in London this September.