Would you try out the sensory deprivation tank?
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elledriver89 — 16 years ago(January 18, 2010 10:03 PM)
I tried it once. It was very relaxing, except that I kept bumping into the sides of the tank. After it was over I felt peaceful and my body was very relaxed. While I've had many psychedelic experiences, I've never had a chance to go into a tank with an expanded POV. A five gram mushroom trip is intense enough in a dark, silent bedroom. But I suppose if you REALLY wanted to talk to a higher intelligence you could couple the 2 together and cruise hyperspace for a trillion light years. I don't think it would turn you into a primal ape/blob-thing though
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OldDood — 16 years ago(March 10, 2010 07:45 PM)
You can have an Out of Body Experience (OBE) without drugs in a deprivation tank.
You can have one just going to sleep.
However a tank could help induce it. You do not need any kind of drug to do it
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drivingmissjenny — 16 years ago(March 13, 2010 03:21 PM)
About 1994 I was in college taking classes for a degree in Psychology. One of my professors told us about this type of sensory deprivation and that if we wanted to try it, there was one "close by" in Grass Valley, CA.
This was in some guy's home. My friend and I decided to try it out. With a stranger owning the tank and it being in his home we were wary but open to the experience
You have an hour to be in the tank and ear plugs were provided - which I didn't use and later regretted - to keep the salt water our of your ears.
He had a room made up just for this mork from ork like egg shaped tank with a shower in the corner of the room to rinse off in.
My time in the tank is something I didn't forget for a long while. It is pitch black and the water is the same temperature as your body. After feeling weird for a short period of time (uncomfortable that I was floating naked in a strangers egg pod) I eventually couldn't feel the difference of my "body" in or out of the water unless my outstretched fingers touched the sides of the tank.
Eventually, I hallucinated or had some kind of experience. I felt I was reaching out to touch Jesus. I felt like I could actually feel and touch him with no boundaries. I felt within a presence.
This coming from a person who is not religious and does not attend church. So that was a very profound experience for me.
After the experience my friend and I went to dinner. I told my friend that I was in such a state of peace that if two people got in a fight, right outside the window, I was so peaceful that I didn't even think I'd flinch.
She didn't feel anything special while in the tank. But thought it was a nice time to relax and think. She did not feel as relaxed or peaceful as I did afterwards.
So I suggest if you ever have the chance to do this, that you do. One of the most unique experiences of my life. Afterwards I thought that man was very lucky to be able to do that everyday of his life.
p.s. We were on no drugsand had no expectations of what we would experience
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expostdelirium — 15 years ago(October 19, 2010 09:25 PM)
I was in one not long after this movie came out. I was probably 12 or 13 (my parents were pretty cool looking back on it). I don't know what the place was called, but it was in a really random place to have a dep tank. There was a free-trial coupon in the paper, my Mom saw it and asked if I wanted to go - so yeah, I went. I'm not completely sure that it wasn't Dr. Phil's place (yes, THAT Dr. Phil), because he had a spa-thingy in this town. I might have to try to find out if he had it or who did. I won't be long on the experience, but it was trippy and relaxing.
I've had similar experiences floating in my Dad's very warm swimming pool at night with a snorkel. During the first one, after I "came out of it", I decided to see how long I could hold my breath, so I swam to the bottom of the pool. I don't know how long I was down there, but I know I haven't held my breath that long before or since. Oh, and I hallucinated I was a big, blue fish. I dreamt of that same fish years later in college. -
WileyDairyGnome — 15 years ago(February 08, 2011 05:02 PM)
Yes. To the people asking where they're locatedwell if you live in southern California, there's one in Santa Monica.
http://www.floatlab.com/
I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been