flotation tank? (1 Viewer)

[La La]

anyone ever tried it? im curious to try it - worth it? what do ya get out of it?

 

[hanley]

according to the simpsons, you get refreshing hallucinations

 

[shitepipe]

anyone ever tried it? im curious to try it - worth it? what do ya get out of it?

yup, i did it once, disappointingly boring. because you've got no sensory stimuli to distract you, any tiny itch or movement in your body becomes magnified to the most important thing in the universe makes it really difficult to actually shut down your brain.
think you need to do it a few times- people i know who've done it a few times have really gotten into it. and i would do it again if i had the chance...

 

[bad cop]

yeah i did it too. but i made the mistake of seeing what it was like with my face down in the water and it stung my eyes like a bastard and then i was sore and halfblind and i had nothing to wash out my eyes and i couldn't find my glasses and it kind of hindered my enjoyment of the whole expwerience.

 

[BC]

i have used these a few times. the use of water which is meant to be the same temperature, roughly, as body temperature provides after a little while (getting used to not bumping off the sides, for one thing) a feeling of displacement or dis-awareness of the body and its dimensions. the lack of any stimulus, combined with the consciousness of the mind, basically leaves one confronted with your own thought processes. in this way, it is almost an (very mild, admittedly) approximation of the ketamine state (however without the powerful dissociation and physical effects - strigtly the mental aspects). after a while, hallucinations pretty much identical to those experienced in the natural hypnagogic / hypnopompic (between sleep / wakefulness) states occur.
its interesting, though not overwhelmingly so. also, the cost - in this country at least - is prohibitively expensive for thorough in-depth experimentation. it is also physically relaxing.

 

[c0De_n1NjA]

its a bath in a box right?

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

no this is the thing they help keep luke skywalker alive with after he's captured by the Wampa on Hoth

 

[La La]

this way, it is almost an (very mild, admittedly) approximation of the ketamine state

awesome.

 

[paramour]

i've done it twice, and thinking of treating myself to another one soon.

I loved it. you spend the first ten minutes feeling a bit freaked out. I was convinved i was gonna drive myself nuts, cause my internal chatter was just amplified in the silent darknes. but then your body goes though a series of really strong rushes as it re-aligns itself without the influence of gravity. (it's worth it for the rushes alone actually). Then you just reach this point where you're not thinking at all. it's unbelievable! i was shocked when the girl knowked on the tank to tell me an hour was up! i'd completely spaced out, although i was totally awake.

afterwards, you feel so completely relaxed that all the silly stresses in life seem absurd.

actually, i'm definitey gonna do one soon.

 

[ernesto]

well, ill hire out my bath, provide lukewarm water and smash the lights.

any takers??


id actually like to try it