I’ve read that quiet rooms and pitch black apparently cause hallucinations and whatnot because the brain is always looking for stimulus. Why is a break in stimulus not good? Can’t the brain just be like “aw yeah, silence let’s chill”?
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It can be bad or good, it really depends on what someone has within them. Concept of time will be irrelevant, there is nothing to listen for besides yourself, nothing to visually perceive, and if doing it in saltwater, you’ll even lose the sensation of weight, along with that electric field constantly running through and around you.
Your body will have to do much less, and even though you are awake, it’ll be like you are dreaming, essentially, down to brainwave patterns. Your thoughts will go into overdrive essentially, bc you have all that energy to burn on basically only that. As for what you start to see/hear/think when most external stimulus is removed, that varies person to person. Could be relaxing journey through the void, could be a kill-box where every repressed sin manifests.
Either way, sensory deprivation, no matter how many senses you cut, has a massive self-discovery element to it, and some people reject themselves or their circumstances so violently that they induce a panicked psychosis. Others accept all and/or nothing, and experience tranquil peace…and then some people just fall asleep lol.
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