Posts linking to a paper
The psychotomimetic effects of short-term sensory deprivation.
10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181b9760b
Oliver J Mason, Francesca Brady
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Out of LSD? Just 15 Minutes of Sensory Deprivation Triggers Hallucinations
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- 21 Oct 2009
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- Wired Science
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- You don’t need psychedelic drugs to start seeing colors and objects that aren’t really there. Just 15 minutes of near-total sensory deprivation can bring on hallucinations in many otherwise sane individuals. Psychologists stuck 19 healthy volunteers into a sensory-deprivation room, completely d...
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Hallucinations in sensory deprivation after 15 minutes
- Date:
- 19 Oct 2009
- Blog:
- Mind Hacks
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- Sensory deprivation lasting only 15 minutes is enough to trigger hallucinations in healthy members of the public, according to a new study published in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. The researchers were interested in resurrecting the somewhat uncontrolled research done in the 50s an...
