Positive Applications For Sensory Deprivation

Positive Applications For Sensory Deprivation 

 Sensory Deprivation is mostly used as an inhibitor, punishment, or torture. Sensory deprivation comes in many forms, as common as grounding a disobedient child to sending prisoners to the hole as a disciplinary measure. I have studied sensory deprivation for many years, and have found many positive uses for it. Sensory deprivation has amazing potential for making soldiers stronger and the human mind more resistant to forms of vice and what could be seen as bad behavior. Sensory deprivation is ancient, dating back to the old testament in the Bible. Job made hedgework around him, causing him not to sin. The devil argued with God, saying that the hedgework was the only thing keeping him from sinning. Now, I want to say I do not believe in the Christian God, but like all academic types, I have studied the Bible and theology more than any preacher alive. It was the idea of forming walls around a kingdom to keep enemies out during the medieval period that embodied the defense that is the castle. If a person can willingly block out their senses, or any number of them, then their resolve will become greater. This does bring up the old Job dispute again, though: would a Saint who is surrounded by hedgework sin if the hedgework was removed? This debate is something that requires experimentation to test. Due to its nature, though, one would not be able to find sinful participants to experiment with if their mind rejected the idea, thus making hedgework invincible with its mind changing and mind altering properties.

 

Does this sound like mystical alchemy in practice? It is. This is just one of the many things I study. Sensory deprivation is something many engage in without knowing. Anytime we have one sense deprived or blocked off we are undergoing a form, however slight or major, we are undergoing sensory deprivation. The whole idea is that if one sense is neglected for prolonged periods of time, then one would easily accept a lesser quality of situation for the sense. (Or no condition at all.) Most consider eyes to be the predominant sense, but imagine what it is like for a blind person. The blind function without vision, and their sense of hearing becomes their primary sense, and most often their sense of touch becomes their secondary sense. Their strength is the very same thing that is their weakness, which is lacking the predominate sense. Their mind is something of a more studious sense in that it would ponder detail more because of their lack of the visual eyes to solidify visual impressions. Additionally, for the hearing impaired, they learn AS, or American sign language, at least over here in the states. This makes them passionate communicators and are so good at it, that they surpass those who can hear and speak, easily. The possibilities for making a stronger human via sensory deprivation engagement is endless, with the results of a normal five sense person gaining enhanced senses, or essentially a strong sixth sense. (The sixth sense is defined as the adding of strength of each of the first five senses into an additional precognitive sixth sense. Many don't understand this.) 

 Sensory deprivation is what makes strong men break down. Sensory deprivation, with effective application on the human psyche, however, can also be used the strengthen that already strong man. While the senses are deprived, the mind is significantly bolstered and strengthened. Stop seeing what your eyes want to see, and drain them and your other senses from your normal sensory descriptors. If our nations invested more on sensory deprivation research, learning both its negative and positive applications, we could all function as a stronger world. Ciao!

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