Reining the "Wild Horse" Sensory Deprivation Experiments

But controlling the conscious mind, as we have seen, is not so easy. The ten wild horses of sense and motor organs are ceaselessly chasing about from one object of pleasure to the next with the agitated mind in tow. Reining in their restless activity is the first step in calming the mind, as some very interesting research in the West, called "Sensory Deprivation Experiments" has shown.

In these experiments, which were specifically designed to "turn off" the ten organs, the subjects are suspended in huge tubs of warm water, the exact temperament of the skin, so there will be no sensation on the skin at all. They are fastened so they can not move (their hands and feet motor organs are turned off), and they are blindfolded (eyes turned off). They do not eat or excrete during the course of the experiment (taste and excretory organs turned off); they do not speak (vocal cord off) nor engage in sexual activity (sexual organ off). The room is completely soundproof (ears turned off) and no smells enter (nose off). All their ten sensory and motor organs have become completely inactive during the course of the experiment. And …. They fall asleep.

They sleep sometimes for as long as twenty-four hours. Without any external stimulation to draw their sense and motor organs into activity, the conscious mind turns off, and they lose all track of time. After they wake up, and feel no more need for sleep, what do you think they experience next?

Into the Subconscious mind

Hallucinations. Visions. Daydreams, waking fantasies more vivid than any experience they have ever had in their lives. Even people who consider themselves quite unimaginative, experience brilliant visions which startle them with their intensity and they become absorbed in these internal cinemas. With the sense and motor organs turned off, and their operator, the conscious mind, also not functioning the subjects plunge deep into the subconscious layer of their minds, the receptacle of dreams, memories and stored images; and without any external disturbances or interruptions, these, images combine and recombine in a fantastic kaleidoscopic college.

The functions of th subconscious mind are memory and deep reflection, and when it is given free play  by the absence of conscious activity, the subjects relive memories, and experience imagined images, as if they were indeed real.