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While Dr. Donald Hebb's voluntary study capped out at 6 days, Cameron kept patients in sensory deprivation for over a month, sometimes combining it with psychic driving tapes.
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Before the CIA targets Cameron, they are watching his colleague Dr. Donald Hebb, whose voluntary sensory deprivation studies at McGill are producing startling results [1] — Carter Roy "Dr. Donald Hebb paid student volunteers $20 a day to lie in a plywood sensory deprivation box. After about 3 days, they began hallucinating…" 17:40 . Hebb pays student volunteers $20 a day to lie in a plywood box in near-total sensory isolation. After about three days, hallucinations begin. No one lasts more than six days. The CIA finds Hebb insufficiently willing to push the envelope, and their investigation leads them to Cameron — who has already been doing his own, far darker version. Cameron keeps his patients in sensory deprivation for over a month, combining it with psychic driving tapes so the only input patients receive is their own distorted voices. CIA head psychologist John Gittinger sends an undercover agent to persuade Cameron to apply for funding through the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology — a front organisation. Cameron applies immediately, and his work becomes Subproject 68 of MKUltra, one of the programme's largest subprojects. Carter Roy notes it is quite possible Cameron never knew who was actually bankrolling him. In 1957, Cameron signs a contract with the Society, proposing to continue psychic driving and to introduce a new, far darker technique — depatterning.
Dr. Donald Hebb paid student volunteers $20 a day to lie in a plywood sensory deprivation box. After about 3 days, they began hallucinating — and none lasted more than 6 days. Cameron looked at Hebb's humane, voluntary work and saw an opportunity to go much, much further.
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