This is a perfect example of how our society, people today, have withdrawn into itself. No one, at least the younger, more I have to have my phone in my hand people, that refuse to communicate face to face with one another.
Sensory deprivation or in this episode, sensory trickery is the showing of how people are left alone with their tech devices and they are deprived of actual one on one relationships. It's no wonder as to why we have so many websites of people trying to find one another in today's world. They do not know how to have an actual relationship where people talk to, eat together, love, touch and relate to each other. Sucks to be young in today's world of not knowing who your neighbors are.