Would you try out the sensory deprivation tank?
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Owen-13 — 19 years ago(July 10, 2006 04:46 PM)
Lots of research has been done on dep tanks, and from the results I wouldn't want to try it without a LOT of trusted people on the outside. You can get very suggestible after a few hours. It has been used as a technique to aid brainwashing and reprogramming sometimes.
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damiensyde — 19 years ago(July 13, 2006 10:19 PM)
I've also tried it, and had an rather interesting experience. I couldn't get amanitas at the time, but settled on psilocybe cubensis. The trip was nowhere near as intense as "Dr. Jessup's," but it was certainly amazing, nonetheless.
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Gorminicus — 19 years ago(August 16, 2006 01:10 AM)
I've done it. However I was clear-headed and not under the influence of psychedlics. It was more of a relaxing, meditative experience than anything else. It's definately a different experience than, say, meditating in a quiet room in your house, but I wouldn't say that I found it trippy. As far as getting in one after taking an hallucinogenI'd have to put that on my list of things that I think would probably be incredible to try but won't for fear of winding up in a padded room for the rest of my life.
As far as where to find an isolation tank: I went in one in Portland, OR about 7 years ago. As I recall, there were 3 or 4 different places that offered time in isolation tanks for public use. I would think that any kind of progressive city with a sizeable alternative population would have at least one place that offered them. In Portland I found them in the yellow pages.
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swami73 — 19 years ago(September 03, 2006 11:08 AM)
Try doing a search on John C Lilly at wikipedia. He was the pioneer of the sense deprivation tanks in the fifties and sixties; infact i read somewhere that he actually invented the technique. He (John C Lilly experimented with LSD
many times while in the 'SD' tank until it was outlawed by the government.
He works with dolphins at his institute these days and does international circuit tours and lectures for the science community.
Whether I would try going in one of these tanks im not sure. Probably not.Becasue of too much isolation.I once saw an episode of 'The Rockford Files' where Jim Rockford visits a new age cult in the counrtyside, and the members of this cult used the 'SD' tanks there aswell.
Is it true that the peole who have done this type of thing are like really overly peaceful people? I compare it to the type of people who spend alot of time out on the ocean for months and months; or in the wilderness. -
xxTheDudexx — 19 years ago(January 03, 2007 01:15 PM)
Try doing a search on John C Lilly at wikipedia. He was the pioneer of the sense deprivation tanks in the fifties and sixties; infact i read somewhere that he actually invented the technique. He (John C Lilly experimented with LSD
many times while in the 'SD' tank until it was outlawed by the government.
He works with dolphins at his institute these days and does international circuit tours and lectures for the science community.
Whether I would try going in one of these tanks im not sure. Probably not.Becasue of too much isolation.I once saw an episode of 'The Rockford Files' where Jim Rockford visits a new age cult in the counrtyside, and the members of this cult used the 'SD' tanks there aswell.
Is it true that the peole who have done this type of thing are like really overly peaceful people? I compare it to the type of people who spend alot of time out on the ocean for months and months; or in the wilderness.
THX for the information man
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myklesemailaddress — 19 years ago(January 26, 2007 06:54 PM)
yeah ive actually read 'the scientist' a novel autobiography by lilly. ive had an interest in the idea and lilly long before i saw this movie. what you need to take in an isolation tank is ketamine, or even just lying in bed. im sure you are all familiar with k. though k in submersive water is a drowning hazard, prime example DM Turner. do a search, pretty interesting guy too.
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craig-884 — 18 years ago(August 18, 2007 07:44 AM)
"[Are] people who have done this type of thing are like really overly peaceful people?"
That's an interesting concept, considering how far the war industry has gone in taking over US foreign policy. "Overly peaceful" - not even sure what that could mean anymore.
It is true that John Lilly, who tried for years to communicate directly with dolphins and made some remarkable discoveries about them in the process, seems to be a peaceable person. The few people I've known who experimented with sensory deprivation also have been fairly serene.
I never got around to trying an SD tank but I'd certainly want to experiment with one clear-minded several times before trying it on acid or other psychedelics. Of course I'd travel to a less repressive country where such experimentation is legal to do so. Wouldn't anybody? I wonder if such a free place still exists anywhere. -
mineofilms — 19 years ago(February 06, 2007 12:37 PM)
sure would, what is the worst thing that will happen, turn into a caveman style ape, masterbate and throw it at everyone, doesn't most the male race behave in such a way, i think when this film was first shown that would have been odd to see on the street not today, it is a Jerry Springer Standard, lol Mineo
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terror_and_submission — 19 years ago(February 21, 2007 05:41 PM)
Sensory deprivation is definitely pretty cool. The whole ape thing in the movie I thought was kind of stupid and took away from the really profound stuff. The sort of regression into naked thoughts of sensory deprivation opens a lot of doors of thinking. It can be explored with lucid dreaming as well, and psychaedellic drugs would only take it to new levels (maybe dangerous levels).
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mineofilms — 19 years ago(March 07, 2007 11:40 AM)
maybe? ha, sure it would, taking those kinds of drugs do very weird things to a person thinking patterns, i know from first hand experience, i just wish i would have a tank to explore, lol, anyone know where i can find one, lol?
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davidemartin — 19 years ago(March 17, 2007 12:32 PM)
I'm a little ambivalent about the things, givcen the only two times I've seen them used on film, they were used for unfortunate effect. In the 1968 pilot film HAWAII 5-0, the Red Chinese spymaster Wo Fat uses a sensory deprivation tank concealed in a tanker's hold to mentally break spies. He almost broke MacGarrett!
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Nephilim-6 — 18 years ago(May 12, 2007 06:00 PM)
Hell yeah that would be cool. I wouldn't take drugs though while doing it. Bad experiences with hallucinagenic drugs.
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howcanyoubesure — 18 years ago(August 01, 2007 10:21 AM)
Yes I would try , but I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to bear the claustrophoby.
If I managed to do it the first time , I would try it again with cannabies. I don't know if I ever would have the courage to use LSD or mushrooms in a SD tank though, but I'm a bit jealous of those who have the guts.