Layyy😝💚 :
What really made me think was the connection between that experiment and sleep. Think about it… humans spend so much of their lives asleep. Some people sleep up to 12 hours, which is literally half a day. When I sleep, I like complete darkness and silence. I hate hearing noise or seeing light when I’m trying to rest. Obviously there’s still outside distractions like cars, sirens, phones, technology, and all these things around us, but imagine if there were none at all. Imagine complete silence and darkness.
That’s what made me start wondering if sleep is kind of similar to the experiment he did.
I’ve also heard people talk about how the body restores itself most in darkness, and how melatonin is produced when there’s little to no light. That alone is interesting because darkness clearly changes something in our brains and bodies. So if John C. Lilly sat in darkness long enough for his mind to start creating realities and experiences, then what are we really doing every night when we sleep?
When we dream, we’re technically still lying in the same place physically, but mentally we go somewhere else completely. Our minds create people, places, emotions, conversations, and situations that can feel completely real while we’re inside them. That sounds similar to what he described: entering a different state of mind where reality starts feeling flexible.
2026-05-13 02:33:23