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MasterLF -> RE: Sensory Deprivation: Technique and Experiences (8/16/2007 4:10:59 PM)
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ORIGINAL: teamnoir
I also play with overload, synaesthesia, and general sensory attention shifting. So many of these aren't strictly deprivation and some aren't mono-modal.
For visual: blindfolds, enclosed dark glasses, absence of corrective lenses, dark room, hypnosis, NLP
For auditory: ear plugs, shooting ear muffs, audio masking, play under water, hypnosis, NLP, also ear phones, piping in amplified versions of the room, etc.
For kinaesthetic: slow spins on turn tables, swings, slings, suspension, these tend to mask inner ear balance. topical anaesthetics, mummification, palette wrap, saran wrap, duct tape, blankets, etc, for general skin sensation coverage. Wet suits and the like can also work similarly. Hypnosis, NLP.
If I knew anything about ingestible psychoactives I probably wouldn't discuss them here. There are, however, several that I'm interesting trying and/or learning more about. (I think I can say that without violating the tou).
ETA: also hoods, bags, body bags, etc. And plain old functional bondage, (proprioceptive deprivation).
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a field of study and a set of practices concerned with positively modifying behavior, particularly through psycho-linguistic techniques. Its theoretical foundation draws on a range of disciplines, including various psychological fields, linguistics, cognitive science and occupational therapy. Invented by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in the 1970's as a method of personal development, NLP has since been elaborated and reconceived in divergent forms by its practitioners and adherents, making it a diffuse field resistant to a single comprehensive definition.
Despite its popularity, NLP continues to be controversial, particularly for use in therapy, and after three decades of existence, remains scientifically unvalidated. NLP has been criticized for lacking a defining and regulating body to impose standards and a professional ethical code and for being pseudoscientific.
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Synesthesia (also spelled synæsthesia or synaesthesia, plural synesthesiae or synaesthesiae)—from the Ancient Greek σύν (syn), meaning "with," and αἴσθησις (aisthēsis), meaning "sensation"'—is a neurologically based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme → color synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored, while in ordinal linguistic personification, numbers, days of the week and months of the year evoke personalities. In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, and/or days of the week elicit precise locations in space (for example, 1980 may be "farther away" than 1990), or may have a three-dimensional view of a year as a map (clockwise or counterclockwise).
While cross-sensory metaphors (e.g., "loud shirt", "bitter wind" or "prickly laugh") are sometimes described as "synesthetic", true neurological synesthesia is involuntary. It is estimated that synesthesia may be as prevalent as 1 in 23 persons across its range of variants (Simner et al. 2006). Synesthesia runs strongly in families, but the precise mode of inheritance has yet to be ascertained. Synesthesia is also sometimes reported by individuals under the influence of psychedelic drugs, after a stroke, or as a consequence of blindness or deafness. Synesthesia that arises from such non-genetic events is referred to as adventitious synesthesia to distinguish it from the more common congenital forms of synesthesia. Adventitious synesthesia involving drugs or stroke (but not blindness or deafness) apparently only involves sensory linkings such as sound → vision or touch → hearing; there are few if any reported cases involving culture-based, learned sets such as graphemes, lexemes, days of the week, or months of the year.
Although synesthesia was the topic of intensive scientific investigation in the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was largely abandoned in the mid-20th century, and has only recently been rediscovered by modern researchers. Psychological research has demonstrated that synesthetic experiences can have measurable behavioral consequences, while functional neuroimaging studies have identified differences in patterns of brain activation (for a review see Hubbard & Ramachandran 2005).
Many people with synesthesia use their experiences to aid in their creative process, and many non-synesthetes have attempted to create works of art that may capture what it is like to experience synesthesia. Psychologists and neuroscientists study synesthesia not only for its inherent interest, but also for the insights it may give into cognitive and perceptual processes that occur in everyone, synesthete and non-synesthete alike.
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