Total Isolation
Summary
Can a human being spend 48 hours in a room, in the dark, with no sensory stimulation whatsoever? Six people undergo a test to find out what happens to their brains when they are kept in solitary confinement. Sensory deprivation has been used as a weapon and an aid in interrogation. The test is to discover whether their brains will still be able to process information when no stimulation reaches the brain – no touch or feel, no sight or sound.
Scientists, and interrogators, have long known of the impact of sensory deprivation on their subjects, but this is the first study to codify that impact.
Keywords: total isolation, total solitude, sensory deprivation, human mind, walls in the mind
