WILDing related to Sensory Deprivation?

I just noticed that WILDing is in many ways similar to Sensory Deprivation.

For those of you that don't know, Sensory Deprivation is a method of therapy, torture, or recreation where one removes as many sensations as possible, in order to experience hallucienations and astral projections, as well as out of body experiences. One usually lies in a pitch black room, motionless, with no light for the eyes to see, no sound for the ears to hear, no taste and smell obviously, and after SP sets in, no feeling for the body to feel. In extended amounts of time, subjects have reported hallucienations, out of body experiences, and other strange phenomena which have lead people to use Sensory Deprivation as an alternative to drugs.

The problem with Sensory Deprivation is that it can traumatize the brain and cause permanently recurring flashbacks, hallucienations, and out of body experiences after one has stopped the deprivation. People have gone insane, and many others have had their lives ruined by it. this is why it is also used as torture, because the longer you are in Sensory Deprivation, the more the brain will be destroyed.

It seems that WILDing has a similar sort of way of getting into a Lucid Dream, by getting rid of the senses. Has anybody ever experienced the side effects of Sensory Deprivation from WILDing?

I believe WILD'ing is based more on concentration and making the body fall asleep when desired. Not trying to block out all sensory feelings.

Think of just going to bed normaly, you aren't going to fall asleep while eating with the lights on smelling a strong perfume and jumping on your bed with traffic roaring outside your window. Your body needs a comfortable relaxing position, quiet and dark area, prefferibly without strong smells to shut down and fall asleep. Now if you call THAT Sensory Deprivation, then everyone in the world should be insane. No, I think WILD'ing is just like falling asleep normaly, except you are telling your brain to stay awake through the proccess.

No it isn't :-P.

The difference between WILD and extended periods of sensory deprivation is that you naturally wake up from WILD, in exactly the same way you wake up from any other dream. There's nothing forcing you to keep dreaming.

WILD is much closer to normal dreaming than sensory deprivation.

If there are no senses, you have no sense of time. You don't know if in the last second, a day has gone, a minute, an hour. You have to have something to be constant, like sight. Also, if you've noticed, we think about as fast as we can talk. If there is no sense of time, we can think infinitely (almost) and come up with extremely strange stuff.

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Originally Posted by Venomblood

If there are no senses, you have no sense of time. You don't know if in the last second, a day has gone, a minute, an hour. You have to have something to be constant, like sight. Also, if you've noticed, we think about as fast as we can talk. If there is no sense of time, we can think infinitely (almost) and come up with extremely strange stuff.

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Yeah that happens to me sometimes when i space out. My body has no sense of how fast to think, so my daydreams go by REEEEEEAAALLLY fast and they all get so complex and overwhelming by the end (i've been falling in constantly changing gravity through Crazy Stairs like environments and have had headaches when my sense of how fast to think comes back.)

Well, you're not torturing yourself.

being tortured would definately have effects on your brain.

Actually.. I've been using a sensory deprivation chamber a LOT lately in the form of a floatation tank. Actually.. I think I'm going to start a new topic about this.

My favorite sleep deprivation movie is the classic 'Altered States',anyone
remember that one?:)