Sensory deprivation really is a way of producing extreme monotony. It’s apparently a horrible experience. Professor Donald Hebb
8Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind. F Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure. Dejan Stojanovic
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
The worship of the senses has often, and with much justice, been decried, men feeling a natural instinct of terror about passions and sensations that seem stronger than themselves, and that they are conscious of sharing with the less highly organised forms of existence. But it appeared to Dorian Gray that the true nature of the senses had never been understood, and that they had remained savage and animal merely because the world had sought to starve them into submission or to kill them by pain, instead of aiming at making them elements of a new spirituality, of which a fine instinct for beauty was to be the dominant characteristic. ibid.
History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood. Friedrich Nietzsche
Are there more than five senses? … Is there a sixth sense? … Scientifically it’s entirely possible. Morgan Freeman’s Through the Wormhole s2e5: Is There a Sixth Sense? Science 2011
Some scientists believe this is how the sixth sense works: that human thoughts merge into a collective consciousness than spans the globe. ibid.
‘Floating is about creating a unique experience for the brain … [with] a lack of sensory input.’ Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia: Sensory Deprivation Tanks
With three tanks, Cloud 9 made it clear they would accept nothing less than total domination of the Boulder [Colorado] tank market. ibid.
A blind man that can see with his ears, a deaf man who hears with his eyes, and a man who lives in a world completely devoid of pain … What about people whose abilities are so acutely developed they challenge everything we know about our lives and our bodies and even reality itself. The UnXplained with William Shatner s1e18: Superhuman Senses, History 2021