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Sounds to me like an extreme form of not-doing. After all you can't do anything in that situation!

It reminds me of the description of the pergatory of the assemblage point where one experiences total sensory deprivation when the assemblage point is between moving from one solid position to another. I've never experienced this myself but I would be very interested in what your experiences are on this if you go through it.

PS. just make sure you don't revert back to a primate, or become some crazy part of the universe and start melting!

Hyena, your mention of "the pergatory of the AP" prompts me to concur on the aspect of pergatory. My head got smashed, spine broken and shoulders also broken from a Harley landing on top of me (upside down) and pinning me to the ground. I suspect that my AP was pushed at the time and has been either unstable since or has relocated to a spot that remains alien to my pre-accident normal self (my reality of then).

Yes, pergatory is a good drscriptive word for this phenominon.

Regarding sensory depravation: I know that Sarah is talking about mechanical means of acheiving reduced sensory input and I'm in agreement. It could be a good way to affect physical feedback and subsequently "thought" and "perception". However, I think a caution is in order: I went crazy with a whole fabricated psychotic scenario (in my case paranoid) when I awoke from the coma and was experiencing sensory depravation. Yes, it was a very different thing than Sara's talking about, but I strongly think that being completely numb on the left side of the body with almost no physical dexterity, badly damaged eye, no taste and no sense of smell constitutes sensory depravation..........and I gotta tell ya, sensory depravation under some circumstances can cause some minds to loose it. Chances are, time spent in those tanks won't cause a psychotic reaction, but it scares me to think that someone could do this at home, by ones self, without potential assiatance......what if something goes wrong?

Hey, I'm just the new kid on the block..........I'll shut up and read some more strings.............

My Best Wishes To All,

Bill (Remember)