On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, cubic-dog wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
>
> > At 07:40 PM 11/24/02 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
> > >Bullshit. I (and several others) built a tank nearly ten years ago.
> > >No big deal. Note that psychoactives (at least if you have any
> > experience
> > >with them) don't modify the experience a great deal either. Certainly
> > not
> > >to upset anyone this much, this fast.
> > >
> > >The biggest threat is wrinkled skin and bacterial infections.
> > >
> > >You've been watching way too many movies, you won't morph into a
> > proto-ape
> > >or glow like lave either ;)
> >
> > You were using the wrong psychoactives then.
> >
> Indeed.
Hardly. What I suspect is that the effect is more related to the mental
hardiness of the subject. Their ability to step outside of their normal
perceptions and beliefs. Are they driven by fear or curiosity. The fact is
that most people (I'd say somewhere in the mid to high 90%'s) are driven
by fear. Those who can't would seem to have a much harder time of it.
I've also noted that females (no insult intended, just a non-scientific
observation) tend to last a considerably shorter time than males.
I found the experience interesting but after a few times rather boring
because the experience wasn't that different after you'd built up some
experience.
When I was 12 I was in a shop accident and lost the sight in my L. eye. As
a consequence I spent about six weeks with both eyes patched so I'm quite
familiar with SD effects. Perhaps that had something to do with it
<shrug>. Pretty light shows for the first couple of days, after that it
was just an annoying pain in the ass.
I also suspect that a lot of people expand upon the experience since they
expect it to be 'wild' because that's what they've been told it would be.
> Don't think I turned into an ape, but for
> about 30hrs (reconstructed) I'm not
> sure what I was.
>
> PS, anything less than a full cycle in a tank
> (16 hrs at least) is a bad place from whence to
> judge.
Spent way more than that in there, and more than one or two times. I
operated that tank for about six months. We finally ended up using it on
the back porch to put a couch in so it was protected from the rain.
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