One way I've heard schizophrenia described is that it feels like sensory deprivation; if you sit in an anechoic chamber for hours, you might start to "hear" the

One way I've heard schizophrenia described is that it feels like sensory deprivation; if you sit in an anechoic chamber for hours, you might start to "hear" the things schizophrenics experience in minutes instead. Sensory deprivation has been used as torture, so this does not sound like something you would subject people to unless they were 100% willing and motivated.