Off Topic => General Off Topic => Topic started by: Osiris on January 16, 2014, 04:21:44 pm
Title: Horizon: Total Isolation. Could you handle it?
Post by: Osiris on January 16, 2014, 04:21:44 pm
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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.
The original experiments carried out in the 1950s and 60s by leading psychologist Prof Donald Hebb, was thought by many in the North American political and scientific establishment to be too cruel and were discontinued.
Prof Ian Robbins, head of trauma psychology at St George's Hospital, Tooting, has been treating some of the British Guantanamo detainees and the victims of torture who come to the UK from across the world. Now he evaluates the volunteers as their brains undergo strange alterations.
apart from the people being a bit odd (the women is craazy) Do you think you could handle 48 hours in those conditions without cracking up a little or seeing things? :D. How long do you think you could last ? 3-5 days a few weeks?
Le youtube links
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Title: Re: Horizon: Total Isolation. Could you handle it?
Post by: Strudog on January 16, 2014, 04:45:56 pm
My addiction to c-rpg would kick in within 5 mins and i would start having withdrawl symptons.
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So no longer than 5mins
Title: Re: Horizon: Total Isolation. Could you handle it?
Post by: Xant on January 16, 2014, 06:24:02 pm
Worst thing would be the boredom. 48 hours in pitch black with nothing to do? Gay.
Title: Re: Horizon: Total Isolation. Could you handle it?
Post by: Kafein on January 16, 2014, 07:27:03 pm
I can tell you already, any prediction about what would happen, from anyone except those that already did it, isn't worth jack shit.
Title: Re: Horizon: Total Isolation. Could you handle it?
Post by: Grumpy_Nic on January 16, 2014, 08:37:16 pm
Yes I can.
Title: Re: Horizon: Total Isolation. Could you handle it?
Post by: Malaclypse on January 16, 2014, 08:39:09 pm
The dark room sounds fun, the goggles/white noise would be a bummer.
Title: Re: Horizon: Total Isolation. Could you handle it?
Post by: darmaster on January 16, 2014, 08:50:28 pm
the woman deserves to be raped, not even 5 sec without lights for god's sake. btw i always used white noises to focus while studying (placebo lol)
Title: Re: Horizon: Total Isolation. Could you handle it?
Post by: SixThumbs on January 16, 2014, 08:57:16 pm
I spent a night in a drunk tank, half-naked with no blanket after being pepper sprayed. Does that count?
Title: Re: Horizon: Total Isolation. Could you handle it?
Post by: sF_Guardian on January 18, 2014, 07:53:08 pm
I honestly do not want to find out...
Title: Re: Horizon: Total Isolation. Could you handle it?
Post by: darmaster on January 18, 2014, 08:07:00 pm
hmm it doesn't look that hard to me from here, i mean knowing it's a test and that there are all the precautions needed i know for sure i wouldn't get mad like the lady even before i started. the only thing i would be worried about is the toilet. and poop. because today i had diarrhea, and almost pooped in a public place (luckily i didn't). sorry am i the only one that when poops with guests around coughs to cover the sound of the poop falling in the water?
Title: Re: Horizon: Total Isolation. Could you handle it?
Post by: Angantyr on January 18, 2014, 08:10:23 pm
In 1957, with funding from a CIA front organization, Dr. Ewan Cameron of the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal, Canada began MKULTRA Subproject 68.[129] His experiments were designed to first "depattern" individuals, erasing their minds and memories—reducing them to the mental level of an infant—and then to "rebuild" their personality in a manner of his choosing.[130] To achieve this, Cameron placed patients under his "care" into drug-induced comas for up to 88 days, and applied numerous high voltage electric shocks to them over the course of weeks or months, often administering up to 360 shocks per person. He would then perform what he called "psychic driving" experiments on the subjects, where he would repetitively play recorded statements, such as "You are a good wife and mother and people enjoy your company", through speakers he had implanted into blacked-out football helmets that he bound to the heads of the test subjects (for sensory deprivation purposes). The patients could do nothing but listen to these messages, played for 16–20 hours a day, for weeks at a time. In one case, Cameron forced a person to listen to a message non-stop for 101 days.[130] Using CIA funding, Cameron converted the horse stables behind Allen Memorial into an elaborate isolation and sensory deprivation chamber which he kept patients locked in for weeks at a time.[130] Cameron also induced insulin comas in his subjects by giving them large injections of insulin, twice a day, for up to two months at a time.[112] Several of the children who Cameron experimented on were sexually abused, in at least one case by several men. One of the children was filmed numerous times performing sexual acts with high-ranking federal government officials, in a scheme set up by Cameron and other MKULTRA researchers, to blackmail the officials to ensure further funding for the experiments.[131] "The frequent screams of the patients that echoed through the hospital did not deter Cameron or most of his associates in their attempts to depattern their subjects completely." John D. Marks, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, Chapter 8[132] The CIA leadership had serious concerns about these activities, as evidenced in a 1957 Inspector General Report, which stated: Precautions must be taken not only to protect operations from exposure to enemy forces but also to conceal these activities from the American public in general. The knowledge that the agency is engaging in unethical and illicit activities would have serious repercussions in political and diplomatic circles ... —1957 CIA Inspector General Report[133]
Title: Re: Horizon: Total Isolation. Could you handle it?
Post by: Osiris on January 18, 2014, 08:32:47 pm
sounds like a good guy. are they sure they didnt recruit and rename Mengele :P
Title: Re: Horizon: Total Isolation. Could you handle it?
Post by: sF_Guardian on January 18, 2014, 08:33:35 pm
Muricans and their twisted morals, nothing new...
Title: Re: Horizon: Total Isolation. Could you handle it?
Post by: Kafein on January 18, 2014, 08:37:33 pm
Gotta love the one that lucidly tells the camera "Guys I'm hallucinating now"
Title: Re: Horizon: Total Isolation. Could you handle it?
Post by: zagibu on January 18, 2014, 08:49:13 pm
I know what it means to be robbed of your freedom, but being robbed of your sensor input as well? I don't think I could make it a full day.
Title: Re: Horizon: Total Isolation. Could you handle it?
Post by: Kalam on January 18, 2014, 10:17:32 pm
Probably a month or so. I'm an introverted loner at heart, though.
Title: Re: Horizon: Total Isolation. Could you handle it?
Post by: Brrrak on January 19, 2014, 12:50:40 am
Could I handle it?
Depends on how you're defining handle.
If you mean behave in a balanced, well-reasoned manner for the whole time? No, most certainly not.
If you mean not break down completely and utterly. Depends on for how long you're keeping me there.
I don't even know what I'd encounter if my own psyche began sensory feedback in a deprivation scenario now.
Title: Re: Horizon: Total Isolation. Could you handle it?
Post by: Leshma on January 19, 2014, 01:59:14 am
I'll probably use my nails to draw pictures in the dark. Or imagine things while not sleeping. Many ways to have fun with oneself.
Title: Re: Horizon: Total Isolation. Could you handle it?
Post by: _schizo321437 on January 19, 2014, 12:09:31 pm