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Torpedoed
Identifier
001363
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Dr. Grassian was a Board Certified Psychiatrist who was on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School for over twenty-five years.
A description of the experience
From Psychiatric Effects of Solitary Confinement - Stuart Grassian Quoting Philip Solomon et al., Sensory Deprivation: A Review, 114 AM. J. PSYCHIATRY 357, 357–58 (1957)
Walter Gibson, a soldier in the British Indian Army, was on a ship torpedoed in the Indian Ocean by the Japanese in World War II . . . .
[The shipwrecked survivors] reported that “all of us at various stages in that first week became a prey to hallucinations” . . .
The source of the experience
PubMedConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
Being shipwreckedDehydration
Hypothermia
Overwhelming fear and terror
Sleep deprivation, insomnia and mental exhaustion