Simon Lee                                                                     Approximately  200 Word

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Scientific Writing 105-19

Postcards From the Edge of Consciousness

Meehan Crist tries her first float. During the float, one’s sense slowly start to fade out. Whats interesting is that after Crist’s sensations were gone, she was able to connect with her own body a lot more. Crist said after her session ended her sense were extremely heightened. Although sensory deprivation is slowly making a come back, when it was first discovered it was considered taboo. Sensory derivation had such negative connotation because of the fact that it was used as a torture method. Sensory deprivation wasn’t directly the torture, however, it was the over stimulation that came after.

This article definitely reminded me about an article i read about night terrors. Night terror is a kind of sleeping disorder in which the person mind is conscious; however, the person has no control over their own body. From what I read, the body is tricked into sleeping because the body gives our cues such as an itch and it expects a response. However if it doesn’t it believes the mind is asleep and will shut down. After that the mind can run wild bring out the worst nightmare a person can have into life and the person can do nothing but suffer through it until it passes. This article definitely made me respect how complex the mind is.