I've become fascinated recently with the idea of total sensory deprivation. I've been looking into anechoic chambers and floating therapy chambers and how they work, but both seem to lack complete annihilation of all sensory experience (anechoic chambers leaving room for rustling of clothes and talking to yourself, therapy chambers being little more than dark pools of saltwater). While I do my own research, could someone with maybe more insight tell me about what I should expect and the closest thing I can get to ultimate silence and darkness?
You can completely override your senses in a dark room with dxm..when i turn the lights on every physical object is a numerical code of 10101010010, and morphes into the objects ur supposed to see, its wicked.
Definatly not for the faint of heart like evil said.
If you achieve full sensory deprivation, prepare for the worst experience of your life. Believe it or not, but the human body's initial reaction to having all of their senses cut off is one of extreme anxiety - especially if you induce this with some kind of drug. I've experienced something similar during my more troubled youth, and even if it's something you crave, it genuinely is not all that fun.
Your brain will do one of two things in a situation where it doesn't perceive anything: 1) Create it's own things (interesting and trippy) or 2) Assume you've died (intensely horrifying). I've experienced both and the former is not worth the experience you get from the latter. DXM does work by the way, but that's a bit of a slippery slope you don't want to become a part of.
I wonder if there's a drug or another safer, more natural way to actually suppress hallucinations, whether that's just through prolonged exposure to a hypothetical sensationless state or some kind of brain reconfiguring on a chemical level.
During my out of body experiences i have no thought. No feels of fear nor happyness. Its odd. I would like to describe one to you guys.
I took about 800mg pure dxm hbr and then 300mg about a hr later. I was watching tv, and i realized i couldnt see/comprehend anything. I went to my bedroom and put in some headphones, and before i knew it i was what seemed 1000ft above my neighborhood. I vividly remember looking down at the houses, and cars..seeing all the street lights below me. I had zero feeling and zero concept of time..but eventually i started falling back towards my home. My vizion was in phrames, like a flipbook. Just closer, closer, closer to my home.
I seen myself standing in the hallway, with all the lights on and i hit myself. At that point my vision was out the top of my head, still flipbooking until my vision leveled out to my eyes, and then i could see again.
I have much experience with the neuro-phenomia that can occur by cutting off all senses. Basically what I have concluded, you brain starts to make up when it has no input. I have had any out of body experiences and what i would call 'dreamscapes'.
Dextromethorphan is a great drug to practice with if you want to experiment with your mind
I find something fundamentally wrong with the therapy chambers someone'll rent to you for $50 a float or so. Something consistent I've been finding is that when put in these tanks and the 'deprivation' has begun, the brain searches frantically for any sort of stimulation just because of how used to it we are. So drops of humidity, music, any sort of light, all would be magnified. Water is an interesting idea, especially to achieve that weightlessness Alan Watts mentioned, but when you're floating on salt water, it can get into your ears, it's obviously touching your skin and rippling as a result. Close, but entirely away from the point of what you went in for.
Interesting video, thank you. Part of my ponderings make me think about the possibility of a higher/different level of being past those ruled by our senses and what that would be like, even though I don't think it's possible to fully understand it. Like trying to visualize a fourth dimensional object on the two dimensional plane we're all accustomed to seeing. I've got to do more soul-searching on that.
Very cool to see that buddhists/'deprivationists' have been linking this idea to enlightenment already.
