Altered States
Needed to get myself re-centered today, so I headed to Time-Space Tanks for an hour in a sensory deprivation chamber. What is that, you ask?
It's a box about 10'x5'x5', with about 9 inches of water in it. The water is body temperature, and is mixed with about 800 pounds of epsom salts. This makes your body extremely buoyant, so you float with effortless ease. The box is light-proof and sound-proof, so you can't hear or see anything.
So you climb into this thing, lie back, and just float. You can meditate, you can "peel the onion of your mind", you can listen to the voices in your head, you can even sleep (one hour of sleep in a float tank is equal to FOUR hours of deep REM sleep). Ideally, you reach an alpha state, which, if I understand it correctly, is the same as lucid dreaming.
Great attitude adjustment. I don't do it often, but when I do, I'm amazed at how relaxed and non-judgmentally focused I am for HOURS afterwards.
It's a box about 10'x5'x5', with about 9 inches of water in it. The water is body temperature, and is mixed with about 800 pounds of epsom salts. This makes your body extremely buoyant, so you float with effortless ease. The box is light-proof and sound-proof, so you can't hear or see anything.
So you climb into this thing, lie back, and just float. You can meditate, you can "peel the onion of your mind", you can listen to the voices in your head, you can even sleep (one hour of sleep in a float tank is equal to FOUR hours of deep REM sleep). Ideally, you reach an alpha state, which, if I understand it correctly, is the same as lucid dreaming.
Great attitude adjustment. I don't do it often, but when I do, I'm amazed at how relaxed and non-judgmentally focused I am for HOURS afterwards.
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