What's with that weird mouth close-up?

Great post, though. Dammit I wish we could get this show in the U.S. We get crap like "Mysteries of the Bible" on the goddamn Science Channel.

Full episode

Must be terrifying. Those screams say a lot. *quality

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RE: the visual memory test. I don't think I'd remember exactly how that designed looked after having 30 minutes of not seeing it. Never mind the sensory deprivation. I assume it was also their first time seeing that design too.

I have a friend who spent several days in what's called "Dark Retreat," which is essentially a sensory deprivation not unlike this one.

After 3 or 4 days she said she was having vivid hallucinations and lucid recollection of early formerly-forgotten childhood memories.

I saw this doco a few years ago. Really interesting stuff. Personally I don't think I could handle doing something like that

Well done, you've proven that groggy people take a while to wake up. What mysteries will science uncover next?

I wonder how Bradley Manning is doing.

Judy's reaction was excellent!

I remember the prof in my Psych 101 class at college asking the class to raise hands if they would be severely, moderately, mildly affected, or unaffected by spending an entire 24-hour day without seeing, talking to, or otherwise interacting with any other human being. I'm an introvert, I grew up on a farm about a mile away from the nearest neighbors, and am an only child -- so I actually experienced that scenario not entirely infrequently. It never really bothered me at all, so I raised my hand for "unaffected" -- but I was almost the only person to do so.

Anyway, I would be interested in seeing how someone that is highly introverted does on these same tests -- particularly the one where they mentioned that the guy's low score may have been due to his extroverted nature. I feel like I could handle the lack of human interaction just fine, but the utter lack of sensory input in general might be a completely different story.

This was a great, great, great episode.

The sense of touch was not deprived in this experiment: would probably have been too much for the subject.

Usually it's achieved by floating the subject in water heated to body temperature. You'd go proper full on mental then I'm sure. People often freak out in isolation floatation tanks apparently.