🤓 Sensor deprivation camera

In my childhood I’ve heard a story about Blaise Pascal and The Waige of his, originally mentioned in his Thoughts.

The story from my childhood said that he come up with this idea in some sort of war situation, when he had to spent a night in a big warm oven, in a ruined house, which was still slightly warm, and outside — it was a cold winter.

Haven’t found any proofs for this story, but the main idea is: it was a prototype of a sensor deprivation camera, where you can’t hear anything, no light, and the temperature is close to the temperature of human’s body.

Many years have passed, and finally I had a chance to test a sensor deprevation camera myself.

Here how it looks like

And inside it’s filled with super-salted water, which density is close to the density of humans body — so you don’t drawn but stay on the surface.

The tempreture is also similar to human’s body.

Youi’ve got 1 hour inside, within which you have to entertain yourself by:

• you can slightly push from one side of the camera, and slooooooooowly float to another side. You’ll feel like it takes around 30 mins, but it’s, obviously, less. You have no sense of time there
• you can turn on/off some sort of meditation music
• you can try to do some thinking, like Pascal did. Never worked for me tho.

At the end you’ll need to take a shower to wash out this salt

dry the hair

And drink some tea at the reception

As a conclusion I can say that it was an unusual experience, but I see no reason to repeat it again. What is it similar to — it’s solarium.