What I'm trying to do is make impressions. I think of myself as a colourist, adding different colours and shades by using different techniques and touching the guitar in different ways. I'd like to play sounds you can see if you've got your eyes closed.

~ Lenny Breau

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One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him.

~ Ryan Lilly

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When I first tried a sensory deprivation tank, people thought I had lost my mind. In fact, I had found it.

~ Ryan Lilly

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The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.

~ Criss Jami

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The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one.

~ Ryan Lilly

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In truth, there is no such thing as an “intuitive boundary” of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as brain-bound is not an intuition, but a prejudice.

~ István Aranyosi

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All our desires are desires of the soul, ultimately, Though they look like desires mental or sensory;- 39 -

~ Munindra Misra

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Dining at the rare reasonTo get between the circumstanceAnd start milking the Caesars For what enters the earsAnd is for their eyes to air and advise.

~ Initially No

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I drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the special pleasure of sucking nourishment, the body focused with the mind upon one vital source.

~ Anne Rice

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Arabella dangled her legs out of the bedroom window and closed her eyes. She felt a butterfly brush against her knee, rubbed her skin against the mortar and bricks, drank in the warmth of the morning sunshine on her face, her arms, her feet.

~ Pauline Fisk

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It was as if I had only just been able to see colours and shapes for the first time. I was so enthralled with the buttons on Lestat's black coat that I looked at nothing else for a long time.

~ Anne Rice

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