Sensory Deprivation

[sufi]

I feel like i could use some right now

someone told me today they caught the rona and their family shut them in the attic for 10 days over christmas,
that sounds quite ok, hermetic, getting food brought to you.
of course they all caught it anyway and so were together for new years

and the guy who locked himself up in the dark for months, he did drawings but i don't think it did him much good.

 

[version]

You're not really selling it here.

 

[Leo]

I could definitely enjoy 10 days, with internet and record collection.

 

[WashYourHands]

The 2nd lockdown could have afforded it, with planning, but due to Covid I don’t want to go full Altered States and come round with a deer hoof in my jaws. @146 I.Q. Magical thinker put that boner away, that’s not what I meant.

 

[catalog]

I enjoy baths for the sensory deprivation aspect, I have them in the dark with music playing really loud, put my head underwater a lot.

 

[luka]

Playing music really loud and having flashing lasers everywhere in my sensory deprivation tank.

 

[catalog]

the white hotel

 

[catalog]

 

[sufi]

and the guy who locked himself up in the dark for months, he did drawings but i don't think it did him much good.

can't find that article anymore, but this seems to be the guy https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...-take-up-darkness-residencies-for-art-project https://www.economist.com/1843/2020/04/29/can-we-escape-from-information-overload

this sounds like more of a laugh though https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-joseph-beuys-locked-room-live-coyote

 

[Corpsey]

Saw this in the NYT yesterday coincidentally

How Nothingness Became Everything We Wanted (Published 2021)

Even before the pandemic, American culture was embracing numbness as an antidote for the overload of digital capitalism. But is it a real escape — or another trap?

www.nytimes.com

 

[version]

It's not just the external noise that needs drowning out, imo. It's also the internal. You don't want to end up like a Beckett character, locked in the void, nothing but a mind racing.

"Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be human forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field."

 

[Woebot]

 

[Woebot]