Video Response: Alone

Around the world, authorities have come up with different types of torture to punish those who have done wrong or those they believe to be wrong. Never have I ever seen a type of torture such as this one shown in this video. Although no physical image of blood or screams of pain were shown, this type of torture is able to bring as much desperation as having someone cut your flesh wide open. The type of torture is called sensory deprivation in which persons are left days, months, or even years without using senses such as sight, touch, hearing or speaking with someone. It doesn’t sound as bad as physical torture but in reality, it is so much worse. The brain needs constant stimulation for it to be healthy and develop under the right circumstances. Patients being tested in a laboratory in which they had no sight or someone to speak to for 48 hours began to hallucinate, sing to themselves, pace around the room in desperation, and become terribly scared and drive themselves mad. Depriving one of these senses changes the person’s life forever; they become eternally segregated, even when given the ability to use their senses again. It makes them scream to God and wish for the pain to be physical instead of having to survive this unusual torture than creates a permanent sentence until the end of their existence.