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Examples Of Sensory Deprivation
The time before I was born, and the time after I die, are indistinguishable.They are gentle voids, chasms of indescribable nonexistence that excite the heart and turn the stomach.I try to orate what I see when I imagine not existing, but all I speak are lies.In a cave is one of the few times a person might encounter the try absence of light.Those of us who learn to explore the flooded caves of our world might experience and even deeper form of sensory deprivation.When there is no light, no sound, no smell, no taste, and hardly even the ever present sensation of gravity, we come the closest to experiencing our own deaths.The feeling is indescribable.Some chase it, others run from it. Some never experience anything after.The lack of sensation makes your inner voices scream, louder than anywhere else, any other waking moment …show more content…
For now, I live within the cave.Many imagine the rocks at the bottom, the ceiling. They create an entrance, an exit, something beyond that they cling to a hope of reaching.They do not understand that their cave is within them, and when they do leave, there will be nothing more, just as it was before they

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