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The headline is click-bait, the article itself interesting. As it says, sensory deprivation is nothing new (there was even a Simpsons episode about it; Lisa in
by Kristine1975 11y ago
The headline is click-bait, the article itself interesting. As it says, sensory deprivation is nothing new (there was even a Simpsons episode about it; Lisa in an isolation tank). The difference, of course, between the titular yoga studio and a CIA's torture site is that in the former, the person being deprived of stimuli is in control, while at the CIA it's the torturer.
- Apocryphon 11y agoI figure that used in torture, sensory deprivation forces the subject to fear the unknown future. Used in therapy, sensory deprivation allows the subject to focus on the certain present.
- dang 11y ago> The headline is click-bait Indeed. We changed it in accordance with the HN guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html