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gemfyre ([personal profile] gemfyre) wrote2003-03-05 10:34 pm
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I need a sensory deprivation chamber...

Baths with carb soda are good, but hazardous. It makes everything slippery so you hafta be careful not to break your neck when exiting the tub.

Anyways, what I really need is a sensory deprivation chamber. These chambers are soundproof and lightproof. They have water in them with a certain concentration of salt that closely matches cellular fluid and makes you float. The water is kept at body temperature. In other words, you lose all your senses. It's supposed that 10 minutes in one is like a good night's sleep. I always have trouble blotting out sound when I'm trying to sleep, therefore I don't think I sleep as well as I could. If I could get a good refreshing sleep in a mere half hour I'd be home free to keep up with everyone else, and maybe even get ahead. It'd be great.
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[identity profile] confetti-1.livejournal.com 2003-03-05 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
If it's sound proof and light proof, does that not also make it air proof?

If I'm wrong please correct me.

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[identity profile] gemfyre.livejournal.com 2003-03-05 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
It probably has air pumped into it, seeing as people don't die in them.

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[identity profile] confetti-1.livejournal.com 2003-03-05 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
lol - I *did* know that, really. I was being a freak.

Welcome to our sensory deprivation tank! It's to die for! ;)

[identity profile] ssunbeamm.livejournal.com 2003-03-05 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
*raises and jiggles hand* oh oh! I have always wanted to try one of those! My whole neighborhood is so noisy and bright. The house desn't block out much sound or light. It would be awesome to have total darkness and silence for a few minutes . Ahhhh!

[identity profile] shrika.livejournal.com 2003-03-05 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
that sounds so nice. I wonder if I would dream as much in them as I do now...

[identity profile] morninglord.livejournal.com 2003-03-06 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
Wonderful, my entire universe would consist of my tinnitus.
Ten seconds in that lil baby and I'd be stark raving mad.
Well, madder.
I'd certainly want to do nasty painful things to the person who put me in there. :)
There is a theory that our minds are not genetic but based upon our learning experiences and what our senses pick up during our childhood. Ie we learn cultural stuff from the culture around us, words n stuff from various sources, i dont want to fully explain this in detail cos you all know wtf im talking about.
If a baby was raised entirely in a sense deprivation tank would it 1. Have no mind at all?
or 2. Think that its body is its entire universe.
What a shock it would be to bring it out too. :)
Not that I'm saying this should be done. Its just a thinking exercise.
Peoples views?

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[identity profile] gemfyre.livejournal.com 2003-03-06 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Read "The Door To December" by Dean Koontz. That'll show you how these tanks CAN be used to send people mad.
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