>>14720013the wet cloth simulates your face being undeerwater, that's enough to trick your brain into thinking you are underwater
you're on your back and tied down so your usual methods of expelling water from your airways don't work
Your brain gets the info "I'm underwater, I'm disoriented, I can't swim, I can't get this water out of my nose and throat" and decides "Yep, I'm fucking drowning, I have literally one minute of existence left, dump every hormone, this is maximum crisis"
And then they can induce that traumatic edge-of-death experience 12 times in a row
It is physiologically brain-breaking