[QUOTE=rathat48;21476520]NOT sensory deprivation if you are watching a movie.[/QUOTE]
Exactly, that's what sets this apart. You lead in and end with sensory deprivation, but the senses are excited by a movie which is the only stimuli in a 48 hour period... so the effect that the movie has on the subject is greatly amplified.
I am not entirely sure if you are even allowed to do this.
OP I'd do this happily. Where's my 300 dollars?
[QUOTE=x2cube;21474007]I'm not a random guy, I've taken various psychology classes.
Tell me what makes the people in the video mentioned in the original post more qualified than me, and what they can do that I can't.[/QUOTE]
No, no you haven't(and even if you did, i worry about the quality of them if you think this is anywhere close to a good idea), that or you just want people to suffer, either way this is an incredibly stupid idea, you're going to screw up people's lives here and cause potential liftime scarring, think about what you're doing first, just because it sounds like a good idea to you, doesn't mean it is.
And to the people who think they can manage this, try playing Doom 3 in a small locked room at 3am, put on your headphones(some VERY good ones), max out the sound, and blindfold yourself. You're going to be doing backflips in about 5 minutes, now imagine this for 48 hours. Yeah, you're going to snap, very hard. Things like this really get to you, and you aren't that "one special person" that's immune to it, though nobody gets it until it's too late
For 300$ I'll suck your cock.
WHY THYE FUCK DID I CLICK ON RUBBER JHONNY, OMFG!
brb searching cute kittens on youtube until I can fall asleep.
[QUOTE=IWHeadHunter;21480549]WHY THYE FUCK DID I CLICK ON RUBBER JHONNY, OMFG!
brb searching cute kittens on youtube until I can fall asleep.[/QUOTE]
You fail. Rubber Johnny is like the best abstract techno music video I've ever seen. It's like -50% scary.
I'd do this for $300.
I do a lot of it already, except the TV, I don't watch TV.
300 is a great 2 days work lol.
I want to experience COMPLETE sensory deprivation. Like somehow tell my brain to stop processing ANY sensory data of any sort at all (light, vibration, touch, heat, odours, taste).
I don't think you could go through that for very long without losing it, though.
What? like what?
I'd do it.
Too bad I'm from other continent :v:
I'd totally do it.
I could really use $300. I live nowhere near there anyways.
I love to push myself to my limits. This shit is right up my alley.
I'd do it for $100.
I make more money in 2 days of work than your experiment pays.
Should up that to around $1k, then it might me worth it.
But if they give up, it should be 0.
[QUOTE=DrMortician;21481622]I make more money in 2 days of work than your experiment pays.
Should up that to around $1k, then it might me worth it.
But if they give up, it should be 0.[/QUOTE]
Thinking about this... This would make awesome reality show.
OP wait 10 years and sell your idea.
How is this sensory deprivation? You're not cutting anything off. INfact, their sight and hearing will be used completely.
this is stupid
This is going to mess lots and lots of people up. Check their backgrounds before you decide to test on them. You don't want a heart-attack prone guy going in there.
I will do it for 40% of all money you make with this, as long as it is properly advertised prior to the experiment.
What kind of mental screening are you going to put the "Subjects" through before you do this? Picking people at random could give some pretty bad results. If you want to see what this does to the human mind, do it to yourself, first hand experience is second to none.
[QUOTE=shakey42;21483037]What kind of mental screening are you going to put the "Subjects" through before you do this? Picking people at random could give some pretty bad results. If you want to see what this does to the human mind, do it to yourself, first hand experience is second to none.[/QUOTE]
Probably just a simple history of mental illness check and maybe a quick personality test. I'll be interviewing them before and after, so if they seem unstable at all or crazy in their first interview I will call it off.
This isn't sensory deprivation.
You should do what Quaid does to Stephen in the Clive Barker story 'Dread'.
Chain them up in a pitch black room with a device clamped over their head and ears that allows no noise to be heard.
Note: I just found out there's a movie of this, but I don't know if it's accurate, so just read the story.
When someone said social experiments were stupid, it counts if you do it to yourself.
If you really want to screw with people's mental states just keep posting and you will be able to examine the behaviour of people who are experiencing brutal animalistic rage
If I do it to myself there's no $300 reward. I would happily do it for $300.
[QUOTE=redking;21483797]This isn't sensory deprivation.
You should do what Quaid does to Stephen in the Clive Barker story 'Dread'.
Chain them up in a pitch black room with a device clamped over their head and ears that allows no noise to be heard.
Note: I just found out there's a movie of this, but I don't know if it's accurate, so just read the story.[/QUOTE]
How exactly isn't it sensory deprivation, because I play the TV for a bit? I agree, that doesn't make it fully 100% sensory deprivation. The TV will influence their mind, they will believe what they see. That's probably going to cause some interesting behavior and thoughts, and I think we can learn a lot from it.
Chaining people up and clamping devices over their heads goes too far. Everyone will have the option to stop the experiment whenever they wish.
[QUOTE=x2cube;21474273]It's a controlled experiment, [b]what makes it biased?[/b]
What declassifies it from being a sensory deprivation experiment?[/QUOTE]
There's no control experiment I suppose.
Dunno how you would have a control experiment though.
[QUOTE=x2cube;21471690]so I saw a video about sensory deprivation experiments, and I want to conduct my own tests. (video is here [url]http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/alone/[/url])
Here's the plan:
Rent an office space or warehouse space, set up a small room that has a tv, a bed, and two mounted infra-red cameras.
Post on craigslist job boards about this, as well as put up flyers downtown.
If they last 48 hours in the room they get $300, if they don't I'll just give them $20.
Simple sensory deprivation is too tame though, so I'll spice things up with the tv. At 3 hours the TV will turn on and show the movie Jacob's Ladder, it's a crazy mindtrip that will probably lead them to think that they are dead and in some sort of hell.
At 9 hours the TV will turn on again, and this time it will show a clip from Rubber Johnny ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3far9oHZOsI[/url]).
At 30 hours I'll show them Begotten ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPWGXYBNYqA&feature=related[/url])... I don't think they'll be able to last through that whole thing.
I'll also be playing white noise the whole time.
To keep things scientific I'll be administering before and after mental tests. Also I'll be posting videos on youtube of the whole event.
Opinions?[/QUOTE]
That's not sensory deprevation, that's just "Come to sleep in my warehouse! I'll play some strange videos!". They won't even have to watch the films, they can just turn their back.
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[QUOTE=bravehat;21483892]There's no control experiment I suppose.
Dunno how you would have a control experiment though.[/QUOTE]
Probably without the videos or white noise. Better still - one with no white noise but videos, one with no videos but white noise, one with neither and one with both.
But it's not an experiment really; you'd need a large sample size for it is viable and you don't really have a hypothesis beyond "Doing this will fuck them up!"
[QUOTE=Splurgy;21483925]That's not sensory deprevation, that's just "Come to sleep in my warehouse! I'll play some strange videos!". They won't even have to watch the films, they can just turn their back.[/QUOTE]
So you're saying that by having three hours of videos, and 45 hours of sensory deprivation... that that disqualifies it as sensory deprivation?
They don't have to watch the films, I'll be very interested in what thoughts ran through their heads while they turned their backs to the glow of the television.
Will they actually not watch a video after being starved of stimuli for 30 hours? I doubt it. If that is the case, and people simply don't end up watching I'll just make it a mandatory part of the experiment from then on.
[QUOTE=Splurgy]Probably without the videos or white noise. Better still - one with no white noise but videos, one with no videos but white noise, one with neither and one with both.
But it's not an experiment really; you'd need a large sample size for it is viable and you don't really have a hypothesis beyond "Doing this will fuck them up!"
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I like to keep things simple. The people in the video that inspired me had around 6 people do their experiment, with no control group.
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