In 1954, psychologist Bakerston and others conducted the first experimental study of sensory deprivation at McGill University in Canada. They paid college students $ 20 a day to keep them in a less stimulating environment. Specifically, in the absence of graphic perception (let the subject wear special translucent plastic glasses), restrict the sense of touch (cardboard gloves and sleeves are set on the hands and arms) and hearing (experiment in a soundproof room) In the environment, replacing the hearing with the monotonous hum of the air conditioner), lying quietly on a comfortable canvas bed. The experimental results show that feeling bored and restless is the minimum response. In the next few days, participants were distracted, unable to think clearly, and had unsatisfactory results in intelligence tests. Through the analysis of brain waves, it was proved that all subjects' activities were severely dysregulated, and sometimes subjects even appeared hallucinations (daydreaming).
Total Isolation First broadcast: Tuesday 22nd January 2008, 21:00, BBC Two
For the first time in 40 years Horizon re-creates a controversial sensory deprivation experiment. Six ordinary people are taken to a nuclear bunker and left alone for 48 hours. Three subjects are left alone in dark, sound-proofed rooms, while the other three are given goggles and foam cuffs, while white noise is piped into their ears.
These let us think that if people lose their five senses, what will happen?
What's difference about one is born without five senses and one is deprived of five senses?
If people have the sixth sense, will they feel the world differently?
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