When considering the debate on water-boarding, a healthy skeptic or student will not just trust the opinions of others but go straight to the source, or as close as they can:
Try this at home:
1) Get into your shower as you would on any normal day. Water temperature can be whatever you like (remember it really would be ice cold). Stand with your back to the shower-head as the stream of water rushes at the back of your head.
2) Begin to tilt your head back as the stream of water begins to shift to the top of your head and over your eyes and ears. By now, your hearing is muffled, eyes are closed but breathing through your mouth.
3) Here is the hard part, now slowly tilt your head all the way back as your nostrils fill with water. Water may begin entering your mouth - This is the moment you need to experience. Do you try to breathe? I did, and man did it hurt and quickly put an end to my experiment.
STOP HERE. DO NOT try to continue this, as you could aspirate water into your lung tissue and cause irritation, do further damage or eventually cause infection.
My nostrils are burning and my chest burned for only a minute or so, but I only allowed myself possibly a second or maybe two "full-tilt" - and I was under my own control. If someone else were doing this to me and I was blindfolded and restrained and didn't know when it would end - I know I would be terrified.
This is a little experiment to try, that maybe you should consider when studying the Water-boarding debate.
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