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With ears plugged, their eyes beneath translucent goggles and their bodies either encased in cotton wool, or floating naked in water at body temperature, people are deprived for considerable periods of external stimulation.
Contrary to what one might expect, however, such circumstances result not in a lack of perceptual experience but rather a surprising change in what is perceived.
The subjects in such an experiment begin to see, feel and hear things which bear no more relationship to the immediate external world than does a dream in someone who is asleep.
These people are not asleep yet their hallucinations, or so-called "autistic" perceptions, may be as vivid, if not more so, than any normal percept.

Yahoo翻訳やらで変換してみても、（´д｀；）？？な状態です。
知覚的経験やら自閉症やら、言いたいことがわかるようでわからない。
翻訳できる方、おねがいします。