Alone

Harsh punishments are used on criminals to get information from them, but something I learned about this video was that a technique that is used frequently as a punishment is Sensory Deprivation. It consists on starving people's senses from stimulation, reducing their ability to process information. This also harms the Central Executive, affecting your language, memory, vision and the ability to interact with people. To prove this, scientist did an experiment on 5 individuals for 48 hours. Some of them were constantly stimulated like a student, comedian, runner but another loved to spend time alone and meditate. The three that were placed in a dark room started to hallucinate after several hours, like a man who had been in prison for 18 years in the darkness, he also saw things that were not really there. Most of them started to walk back and forth and started talking funny. This is because the detrites start loosing connections because of the lack of stimulation. At the end, just by hearing the voice of another person frightned some individuals becasue of the long hours of brain understimulation. Processing information was reduced becasue before they did the tests they were asked to do simple things and did them slower after they went out. As for the man that was locked up 18 years, he lost  the ability to follow direccions and cant remember the order in which he did something. I think it suprising how understimulation affects a person's developemnt and how it changes people. I think the idea of being like that for 18 years scares me, a person may go insane! But if i was choosen to do something like that for 48 hours, im sure i would sleep most of the time.