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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Study Guide

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by Richard Feynman
About 49 pages (14,634 words)
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Part 5: Altered States Summary and Analysis

Feynman meets Dr. John Lilly and his wife who introduce him to the sense deprivation tank. In a sense deprivation tank, a person experiences complete darkness and silence. They are also floating in liquids kept at body temperature, so they do not feel anything either. In the sense deprivation tank, it is easy to enter a trancelike state and have hallucinations.

On one of his visits to the.....

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