Thursday, January 14, 2021

Tumblr Thread: Sensory Deprived Brains Turn Into Hallucination Factories


Anyone who has ever experimented with one of those radical sensory deprivation tanks or chilled out in a pitch black cave for a hot sec will know that your brain gets bored very quickly and starts to churn out some trippy hallucinations to keep itself preoccupied till you return to the land of light. It's just a bit of a disorienting thing to mull over. Maybe this is why some people in this weird universe insist that reality as we experience it is nothing more than our brains' best guesses at what's actually happening. Like a collective hallucination of sorts. Even if that's the case, we're still all in this hallucination together. So might as well be a kind human being and enjoy the ride while it lasts. 

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Text - 2 georgeyofthetrumpets blackbearmagic no but seriously I still get chills thinking about turning off my headlamp in the cave and The Hand That I Did Not Actually See, and it's been twelve years since it happened it's such an unreal experience like you turn off your light in a cave and wave your hand in front of your face and

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Text - you can see this shadowy thing moving in the black space where your hand is it looks like the same shadowy thing you would see in your room at night if you waved your hand in front of your face, it's there and vaguely hand-shaped, and your brain recognizes it as your hand because your brain is aware of where your hand is and what it is doing But You Are Not Seeing Anything Inside a cave, there is No Light. No matter how far your pupils spread, there is no light for them to draw in, no lig

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Text - So it creates a shadowy thing for your eyes to be seeing. Brain is like "there's a hand there" Eyes are like “yup sure thing brain I can totally see it" Brain is like “nice" but there is no hand, you cannot see the hand, you are seeing a literal actual hallucination in the cave because your brain thinks it knows best Caves are awesome, but also terrifying. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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Text - nikniknikin we once went spelunking, and a our guide said that once he was in a cave with a stream, so he could hear running water, and his brain was like 'oh, running water? that means there must be Ducks out there'. and he saw like...low light shadows of ducks. that his brain just Put There. the-tabularium As a cave guide: we call that 'cave blindness'! True darkness absolutely wigs your brain out - we're such visual creatures that after a while our brain throws a hissy after not seeing

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Text - I like to turn my torch off, sit down with my back against the wall, and wait to see how long it takes before I start seeing things or feeling like the ground is moving, or hearing things. Because I know I'm not - I'm in complete darkness, utter silence, sitting in rock that hasn't moved in hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Proof that brains are Ridiculous and over-react to a lot of stuff! Source: blackbearmagic 95,395 notes

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