Prisoner's cinema
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The Prisoner's cinema is a phenomenon reported by prisoners confined to dark cells and by others kept in darkness, voluntarily or not, for long periods of time. It has also been reported by truck drivers, pilots, and practitioners of intense meditation. Astronauts and other individuals who have been exposed to certain types of radiation have reported witnessing similar phenomena.
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Popular culture
The pilot episode for the original Twilight Zone series, "Where Is Everybody?," depicts elaborate, fully realistic hallucinations by a test subject undergoing prolonged isolation and sensory deprivation as part of research into human space travel.
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See also
- Closed-eye hallucination
- Dark retreat
- Sensory deprivation
- Isolation tank
- Hypnagogia
- Phosphene
- Ganzfeld effect
- Eigengrau
- Charles Bonnet syndrome
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