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My floatation tank experience.
#7991248 - 02/07/08 11:22 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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It's a bit of a long write-up. Like I said in a previous thread, I seem incapable of brevity sometimes.
I arrived at the room number in the building where Blue Light was...and didn't realize that the floatation tank is run out of this guy's apartment. He was a really mellow guy and when I remarked about my surprise at the fact that the tank was just in his apartment he told me that he had ben doing it there for 23 years. After I used the bathroom, he showed me the room where the tank was, opening it briefly to allow me to see inside and see where the light switch (well, button) was.
The tank itself was essentially a modified jacuzzi that he had built into an isolation tank, surrounded by soundproof walls and in a soundproofed room, about half the space of which the tank itself took up. He closed the tank up, not wanting the treated atmosphere to leak out too much, and we went into the living room where he gave me a prep talk. He had a gorgeous living room with high, stuffed bookshelves. I saw one shelf that read DMT: The Spirit Molecule, LSD: My Problem Child, Tripping: An Anthology, etc. from left to right. A glowing crystal adorned one corner table, African style carvings peppered the high tops of the bookshelves. The whole atmosphere in the apartment was remarkably calm and relaxing.
I was given some instructions on how best to settle into it, different positions to try, and then was left in the half of the apartment with the bathroom and the floatation tank. He cut himself off from that part of the apartment with Japanese sliding doors and I went into the bathroom to shower - he doesn't want the saltwater mixture to get too polluted so it's important that you wash your hair and body thoroughly. Then I went, naked, to the floatation tank. Yep. I was naked in another man's apartment the other day. Go figure.
When you enter the tank, you want to do your best to minimize the amount of disturbance you inflict on the calm water. It is a viscous water, far thicker than I expected, even knowing how loaded with salt it was. I shut the door behind me, then I sat back into the water and then leaned back. The sensation was very unsettling. Instant buyoancy came up from beneath me. I laid back, steadying my hands on the sides of the tank and holding myself still while the thick water sloshed back and forth, and with my left hand turned the lights off.
The water was lapping the sides and I was holding on, my eyes trying to deal with the fact that there was absolutely no light. Or was there? I thought I could see the contours of the tank, which was as tall as a regular shower stall. But could I? My eyes started playing tricks on me immediately. I lay my head back in the water, only my face protruding, my ears submerged, and I hear my heart beat loud and clear. It doesn't take long for you to become hyper-aware of the lack of audio or visual input coming from the outside world. I could hear myself blink. It was crunchy.
I was very uncomfortable and couldn't find the right position for my arms and legs. Relaxing your body, even in a semi-weightless state, is not as easy as you might think it is. I tried breathing deeply, but a terrible anxiousness was creeping over me and I came very close a couple of times to just throwing in the towel, getting out of the tank and just quitting. It was really bothering me, the amount of "What do I DO with myself?!" that was bubbling up inside me. But then I realized how much of a parallel there was between this need to let go and the need to let go when tripping. And I realized much like when tripping becomes overwhelming in the come-up, that I was a source of most of the things distracting my mind. I was being my own worst enemy.
I calmed myself down through deep breathing and tried to do a yoga exercise the owner told me about, where you scan your body with your mind, thinking about the individual parts and trying to relax them. It was a very strange experience, because I would become aware of my calf muscle...there would be a sensation there as I would think about it. My mind would jump to label it pain or discomfort, but that was just because those are the only times when I am really in touch with my body, when it is hurt or uncomfortable. This was something else, this was just a throbbing awareness, an is-ness on the part of my muscles.
Meanwhile, my arms were tingling from the elbow to the fingertips. Absolutely felt like all the cells in them were vibrating. MY upper back muscles hurt and so did my neck so I tried floating with my arms stretched behind my ahead instead of at my sides. I immediately grew far more relaxed and was able to give myself over to the experience...
By the time I was really getting deep into the float, and letting go to it, I don't think there was much time left. I entered this semi-dream state that was unbelievably pleasurable and relaxing. It felt like all the best parts of being asleep, while being aware. With my eyes closed (though there wasn't really any difference between having them closed or open) I would see slow, unfurling explosions of the darkest purples and browns occurring behind my eyelids. With my eyes open, sometimes I would see little vectored lines against the darkness.
Towards the end of the float, there are speakers in the bottom of the floatation tank, and he begins to play light, soothing tones when you have a few minutes left, so as not to startle you from your trance but gently wake you from it. I really did feel like I was waking up from a dream. I sat up in the water, breathing heavily, feeling quite a glow all around me. and in fact, I thought I saw light in the room. I thought to myself, wait, is it really lightproof? I sat back and took in the last few minutes by soaking in the darkness, and I thought I could discern where the corners of the tank were, how far I was sitting from the walls.
I reached out my arms to where I thought one wall and one corner would be and realized I had absolutely no idea what angle I was sitting at and where anything was. Laughing, I turned on the lights, which are dim so as not to hit your eyes too harshly. I then rinsed off in the shower and dressed, and went back out to the living room where a chilled cup of delicious herbal tea awaited me. I sat drinking it for a bit while the proprietor prepared the tank for his next customer, then he came out and we discussed the experience a little bit.
I told him that I saw a lot of parallels between the psychedelic experience and the float, especially in the beginning of the float when you really need to Let Go and give yourself over to it. Sometimes when I trip I try and lay back and just quiet my mind and it will seem so unbelievably hard to do. There are so many distractions. And just like in those moments tripping, when I was trying to relax in the tank I realized I was creating all those distractions myself. Despite his impressive collection of books on psychedelics, he seemed less than eager to follow this line of conversation.
I told him that one part of my body I could not calm down the whole time was the underside of my belly, and he told me that was where the Hara, one of the chakras, is located. Apparently there are schools of meditation where you try and quiet the head-mind by redirecting your energy flow down to your other mind, which is located in the Hara, and that you can attain a quiet state that way. He gave me the names of books to read on the subject which I scribbled down. Then I finished my tea, walked out on to the street, and was quite aglow. I walked about 40 blocks feeling like I was on air the whole time.
So what did I get out of all this? I'm not quite sure, to tell you the truth. I wasn't entirely mentally prepared for the experience, which is kind of how I have been feeling in regards to many of my consciousness-expanding pursuits lately, especially my adventures with dimethyltryptamine (DMT). This experience reaffirmed my feeling that I have a lot of work to do on myself, on my mind, on the way I process information and float through the world and let the world float through me. My mind is not quite open enough, I'm not as prismatic as I aim to be. But I also realized I can't overthink that and I just need to BE it.
What do I mean by prismatic? Well, I can't stop thinking about that idea after this experience, because there was so little coming from without into me. I had a vision once, on LSD. Everyone I looked at had a prism nestled deep in their being. And in fact, they were an extension of that prism. The basic unit of human life was this prismatic soul. Each one formed completely uniquely, with its own bends and divots. Each prism accepted external input, and as that input crossed the threshold of their perception is was bent and bounced around inside them in the way only their minds could singularly bounce those ideas and concepts and things around. And then we each would refract those things back outwards. There is breathing in, and breathing out.
In the tank, when I breathed in, my mind was completely empty except from the knowledge of being alive and breathing. And when I exhaled, my mind would rush, scream, sing, yell, ideas would stream like hi-speed traffic in between my eyes and out my third and into the æther. I'm able to process input. I'm able to flow through life quietly and suck it in and experience it and engage with it. But the goal now is to attain a level of quietness and consistency in the way I exhale the world, the way I breathe back into the spiritual ecosystem that's nourished me all my life. I must learn to quiet my monkey mind. Every day is a step towards that. There's no attaining quiet mind on the turn of a dime.
I'll definitely go back into the tank. I don't know when, but I will. It was an experience I don't quite know how to process, and that is what is drawing me back to it, though it may be some months before I try it again. Much like tripping, the experience is a question mark. And I know it will never be the same twice. And while I don't necessarily have anything to hold on to or show for what it's taught me, it has left me with something, even if that something is nothing more than a quiet moment that can serve as a reference point for the more turbulent times in my life.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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wtf is a floatation tank? something u trip in? i didnt read all of ur post maybe thats why im missin something
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It was very much like a drug experience in that a lot happens in your mind that isn't exactly translatable.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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thanks for that very worthwhile read.
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: AlteredAgain]
#7991295 - 02/07/08 11:39 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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After some thought I can say the drug I think would benefit one most in a floatation experience is not LSD or psilocybin or THC, but in fact pure MDMA. I think one could get a lot of internal work done, really reach a peaceful state.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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wow dude, nice write up. ive always been a bit curious about floatation tanks myself. i bet your next time will be better, as you kinda know what to expect...
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Good read OMR
sounds like you had a good first experience.....
i would very much like to try this sometime in the future..i ,like you,could never be bored with my brain..i cant imagine how incredible it must have been to be completly isolated from sound and sight
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Quote:
OneMoreRobot3021 said: It was very much like a drug experience in that a lot happens in your mind that isn't exactly translatable.
Almost like cutting out some of the work in meditation.
What turns most people off with meditation is that you need to get past the sounds and noises and thoughts associated with the everyday auto play. Like the world is a cyclone or hurricane spinning around you, but there in the center of the storm it's quiet and still. But when you get through that and tap into that infinite inner space, things start to happen.
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: wrestler_az]
#7991310 - 02/07/08 11:42 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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wrestler_az said: i bet your next time will be better, as you kinda know what to expect...
lol, i just realized this is something i tend to say to alot of people regarding their first trip.
parallels indeed...
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: CaptainKirk]
#7991314 - 02/07/08 11:44 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Your ears are submerged under the water, so you hear your heart beating through this thick heavy water, it's one of the only sounds you hear apart from the water lapping if you disturb it (though ideally you end up so still the water isn't lapping against the sides) and also, like I said, you hear yourself blinking. But at one point early on I started humming and I think if you were someone who was into chanting or could engage in glossolalia, you'd have a lot of fun in there.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Thanks for sharing.
I've had only one floatation session so far, last october, and I simply couldn't relax into it. I kept bumping into the walls of the tank. Reading your post makes me want to try again. It's a shame that I'm flat broke atm.
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: koppie]
#7991330 - 02/07/08 11:49 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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You need to steady yourself against the side of the tank with your hands, just your fingertips. You hold yourself there, exerting pressure with your fingertips and keeping your body still. Do that for however long it takes to calm the water down. When you first get in, you want to do it as slowly and gently as possible, not like hopping in a jacuzzi. Otherwise it takes the water a long time to settle.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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I had never heard of floatation tanks until now. According to what I just read in Wikipedia, the inventor of this sensory deprivation tank - John C. Lilly - also used to experiment with dosing himself with LSD and spending up to tens of hours in the tank. That could turn out to be a pretty amazing experience IMHO. You could experiment with spiritual practices, various sounds and music etc. I'm definitely going to try this tank thing some day.
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so you were naked in another guy's bathroom enjoying a thick, salty substance?
that's the gayest thing I've ever heard. 
no really, that actually sounds pretty cool. Glad you enjoyed it!
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Quote:
OneMoreRobot3021 said: Your ears are submerged under the water, so you hear your heart beating through this thick heavy water, it's one of the only sounds you hear apart from the water lapping if you disturb it (though ideally you end up so still the water isn't lapping against the sides) and also, like I said, you hear yourself blinking. But at one point early on I started humming and I think if you were someone who was into chanting or could engage in glossolalia, you'd have a lot of fun in there.
I'm a spontaneous chanter/tongue speaker!! (that sounds weird after I re-read it heh)
I can see how that would be amazing, as I generally do this sort of thing when I encase myself in a dark room and focus on my throat and/or my brow chakra.
also generally under the influence of psychedelics tee-hee...
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: Todcasil]
#7991641 - 02/07/08 01:08 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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How much $$ for your sensory deprivation experience?
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: Cancer]
#7991655 - 02/07/08 01:12 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I did not have one!
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: Todcasil]
#7991678 - 02/07/08 01:17 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Lemme rephrase-
Onemorerobot>>
How much $$ for your sensory deprivation experience?
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: Cancer]
#7991698 - 02/07/08 01:20 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I was confuzorz, mostly because you replied to me.
My apologies dear Cancer!
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so,...for 90 bucks, some dude lets you use his tank?
man. that sounds like a good way to make $$ - if you have the upfront money. After reading the flotation tank come on - i thought it was in a facility.
you're a brave sonofabitch. i aint getting nude in some dude's pad...thats a deal breaker.
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What if he was a yoga instructor or really cute?
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: Cancer]
#7991711 - 02/07/08 01:23 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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i think he mentioned in another post 90$ for 90 min.
I go to toronto alot and noticed i wouldnt have a problem finding a tank there. I hope to try it with my girlfriend. I would need a place with two tanks i guess. (we wont want to wait for eachother) Anyways, fantastic writeup 
would you do it again on shrooms or acid? im sure this guy would be cool with that, just make sure u share with him.
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: StonedShroom]
#7991717 - 02/07/08 01:24 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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nice read, joe rogan is crazy about these things
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uhh, im engaged to be married. I dont go to guys houses, even if it is to float.
"Honey - he rents 'flotation tanks' - its all on the up and up..."
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: Todcasil]
#7991738 - 02/07/08 01:29 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Wow, Very nice write up. I am glad you were able to calm yourself at all, I imagine that you body was fairly frustrated not being used to such a sensory deprived state.
Thanks for doing something in the name of science and taking the time to tell us about it.
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: Todcasil]
#7991742 - 02/07/08 01:30 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Todcasil said: I was confuzorz, mostly because you replied to me.
My apologies dear Cancer!
No apologies needed- Cancer likes you. Here, have some

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$90/session seems kinda steep. Id be comfortable paying $50-ish. But then again- jacuzzi shells and sound proofing aint cheap either.
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Oracle Of Delphi said: uhh, im engaged to be married. I dont go to guys houses, even if it is to float.
"Honey - he rents 'flotation tanks' - its all on the up and up..."
I'm engaged to be married too! But My lady still has to get mostly naked in front of a guy for her next tattoo. I cant very well be like, "No more tattoos for you!!"
just gotta have some degree of trust, maybe build a relationship with the dude with the tank so its not just some random stranger, or have your boy do it first so he can see how cool it is.
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: Todcasil]
#7991813 - 02/07/08 01:50 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Hm, don't really think her unique circumstance would be much similar to OMR's, unless she happens to live nearby. Maybe she can just find an actual facility for that. That way, her and the homeboy would be cool with it.
Anyway, that sounds really bad ass. The fact that it's just one guy running it out of his own apartment which has been personally fitted by him to the utmost comfort def. adds more of an appeal; to me at least. The herbal tea waiting right after sounds like the icing on the cake, what a nice guy!. Sounds like a perfect way to ease your way back into the normal hustle and bustle of everyday waking life while mulling over what just happened to you.
Nekkid in some stranger's apartment sounds a bit harrowing, but hopefully you won't be finding any videos of yourself on the internet or something;)
Excellent write-up. Thanks for sharing!
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: Todcasil]
#7991824 - 02/07/08 01:52 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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CASIL!!
love your new avatar!
<3 Wizards
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: Acidic_Sloth]
#7991849 - 02/07/08 01:59 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Great read!, Thank you so much for sharing you're experience with this.. I Enjoyed it thoroughly!. You are a great writer, I felt as if i was there with you. I'm glad you found at least some answers to you're questions in life. Good vibes to you my friend!
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Great description, OMR. I'm going to do this sometime.
Just to clarify: you are floating horizontally in the tank, correct?
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#7991878 - 02/07/08 02:08 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Heh, buoyancy will not allow otherwise!
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: Acidic_Sloth]
#7991929 - 02/07/08 02:23 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Acidic_Sloth said: CASIL!!
love your new avatar!
<3 Wizards
hehe, sank you sweetness! Its actually from a few years ago, just thought Id change the pace a bit 
picante style.
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Interesting read.
Have you tried meditating daily?
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No, I don't think daily meditation is really for me.
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Awesome read! Thanks for sharing, Mr. Robot. So was it body temperature water? And how does he keep the jacuzzi heat pump from turning on during your session?
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: ToolTroll]
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Well it's just a modified jacuzzi...it's not in jacuzzi mode or anything. He has the thing completely under his control, all working at this settings. The water is pre-heated to body temperature to minimize the amount of feeling communicated from your nerves to your mind.
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I wanna buy my own flotation tank.
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AAAAHH-HAAAA!
Reeferaddict- I watched season one of Dexter over the past couple days and there was a scene where he was at a hotdog stand and they panned over a shot of that hotdog putting ketchup on his head. and it has REALLY been bothering me b/c I kept thinking to myself "where have I seen that hotdog before?"
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: Psy Baba]
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Nice write-up dude!
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: StonedShroom]
#7992299 - 02/07/08 03:34 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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StonedShroom said: AAAAHH-HAAAA!
Reeferaddict- I watched season one of Dexter over the past couple days and there was a scene where he was at a hotdog stand and they panned over a shot of that hotdog putting ketchup on his head. and it has REALLY been bothering me b/c I kept thinking to myself "where have I seen that hotdog before?"
Lolz
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Nice write-up OMR.
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: niteowl]
#7992438 - 02/07/08 04:09 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Cool writeup OMR.
Also, I'm curious as to what the proprietor himself was like. Just kinda wondering what sort of dude would set this kind of thing up.
This is definitely something I could go for I think.
Too bad I live in a pretty barren location for things like this.
Either way, you've made me want to try it for myself.
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Re: My flotation tank experience. [Re: BurningBeard]
#7993091 - 02/07/08 06:41 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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very nice frobot
i enjoyed that
and it makes me want to give it w a whirl
ever seen the Simpson's where homer and Lisa go in flotation tanks
"how am i supposed to hallucinate with all these swirling colors distracting me"
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Excellent read. I love isolation tanks.
I think a lot of people have a huge misconception about meditation in general. It doesn't have to be sitting in the lotus position humming mantras. Meditation is the art of practicing focusing the mind. That's all it is. Focusing your concentration, so that you.. the owner of your consciousness, may control it at will, with the preciseness of a laser beam. Meditation may simply be any time you turn your thoughts inwards to 'focus' your concentration on any particular thought or thing. It is a simple act of focusing will, and you know what they say.. practice makes perfect. In that regard it can be practiced, anytime, anywhere. Something as simple as the act of collecting your thoughts at the end of the day could be described as meditation. There are just many different avenues one may approach the focusing of the mind, which makes it very dynamic.
But I think isolation tanks give the best environment for that. After all, the "zen masters" would state that ultimately the "goal" of meditation is to be able to focus on one thing, and hold it in your mind without being distracted. In an isolation tank, external distractions are about as minimal as possible.. leaving only the self.. so that gives the utmost room to focus on the mind. Wasn't that what Terrence McKenna was referring to with "5 grams in silent darkness"? Same difference, in my opinion. It is to be alone with oneself.. and one who is in complete control of their own thoughts, is the master of their reality, for thoughts create reality (which is subjective). The better our relationship with ourselves, the better our relationships are with other people. As below so above and so on.
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You're a talented writer...I enjoyed reading your report very much. I also think that you would find MDMA quite wonderful.
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Sounds very cool. The guy probably didn't join you in the psychedelic discussion because of your age. lame.
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: moosehead]
#7993332 - 02/07/08 07:19 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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i liek the little aside you added about him and tha hara chakra or "gut brain"
there was a guy on the colbert report a few months back who had alot to say about the gut as a mind.
its pretty much just fueled by gravity. your brain does not need to tell it what to do at all
the flow of energy is always fasinating to read about
good show
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That sounds like a very awesome experience indeed. I've never been able to "meditate" other than while doped up on opiates but I don't know whether or not you'd consider that meditation. So yeah this definitely sounds like something I'd like to try for myself some day.
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: THE KRAT BARON]
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Sounds pretty sweet, I'll have to try one sometime... I never can meditate though, my mind is always too distracted.
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: Todcasil]
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Oracle Of Delphi said: uhh, im engaged to be married. I dont go to guys houses, even if it is to float.
"Honey - he rents 'flotation tanks' - its all on the up and up..."
I'm engaged to be married too! But My lady still has to get mostly naked in front of a guy for her next tattoo. I cant very well be like, "No more tattoos for you!!"
just gotta have some degree of trust, maybe build a relationship with the dude with the tank so its not just some random stranger, or have your boy do it first so he can see how cool it is.
yeah, I was just playing with hyperbole there for a bit - as a matter of fact, hubby to be isnt the jealous type at all - it was just funny at the time .
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Great read!
Very interesting indeed.
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: Kamek]
#7995351 - 02/08/08 09:09 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Interesting writeup, I would like to try a Isolation tank, but it seems like too much trouble to find one and go out to the place. Besides, I like being surrounded by friends while experiencing most psychedelic experiences. I might try it in the future though. Here is a list of places that have them if anyone is interested http://www.floatation.com/wheredetails_usa.html#USA
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Re: My floatation tank experience. [Re: fapjack]
#7995589 - 02/08/08 10:02 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yeah it's hard meditating, when you're on the shroomery 23 hours a day!
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