When I invited my friend Sarah to join me in trying sensory deprivation tanks, as invented in 1954 by a so-called “consciousness researcher” named John C. Lilly, I saw a flash of understanding on her ...

If you visit a flotation therapy center, you’ll put in earplugs and step into a rounded, podlike tub big enough for a tall person to lie back and stretch out. Depending on the center’s policies, you ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience.View full ...

“In the basement of a university medical school, Dr. Jessup floats naked in total darkness. The most terrifying experiment in the history of science is out of control … and the subject is himself.” So ...

MADRID — On July 16, 1962, geologist Michael Siffre launched a particular experiment. He wanted to know what happens when the human body is plunged into total darkness. To find out, he went down into ...

On a cold November day, Kiana Aran awoke to a surreal vision: Beyond a glass partition, she saw her mother, her cousin, and her grandmother—who had passed away years earlier—watching something on an ...