I preloaded my vape and took it with me to my float spa session. First hit spun me..as it does..second hit and the tile patterned floor started rotating and I lost feeling to my body..it was as if I was spinning down the drain..in fear of collapsing (because I was standing outside the pod) I quickly hit it another time incase there was anything left and crawled in the pod. My arms, legs and head felt like they were sinking deeper and deeper into an endless abyss..then the sinking turned into a flying sensation..there was an all encompassing 3-D type grid always shifting and rotating (very much like an early 2000s screen saver) and infinitely swirling clouds of color (though it was pitch black)..unreal pinks and purples..after that died down….it was like…remember in the movie Demolition Man where they hook themselves up to those helmets and bang virtually?...well it was kinda like I was plugged into the Ether or Mother Earth or some shit. That lasted almost the whole 60 minute session..crazy shit.
I know I've bombed the discord channel with this and heard some great things, so feel free to paricipate even if you were there. I want to hear your experiences, your questions, your thoughts!
A Sensory Deprivation Chamber does exactly what the name implies: it deprives you of your senses, making it easier for you to relax and enter "the void". You enter a chamber with 27 cm / 10 inches deep water mixed with approx. 450 kg / 992 pounds of epsom salt. The water is heated to match your outer skin, creating a sensation of weightlessness.
From what I've heard a lot of people managed to shift with the help of these floating tanks, and if not (and I quote) "could have easily shifted but decided to fall asleep". I had a session recently because why not and among other things I discovered that I don't remember the last time I truly relaxed... And not fully knowing how to do so made my experience a bit worse, along with other things: some loose parts in the tank making noise, etc. I'll be going back a few times as it's common for the first 1-3 times to be less than great.
I think it would be cool to try it, in saltwater tanks
So for Christmas this year I was given a certificate for a free 2-hour float in a sensory deprivation tank at a local spa. I believe the sensory deprivation tank to be a potential source of perspective/way to experience reality just like psilocin because youre completely alone with your mind and last time I did it the real world just seemed so intense when I finished, almost like I’m perceiving the objective world but not with the Uber-efficient perceptions I’ve developed over my life; so the implication is that I must have not been grounded in physical reality. I also consistently hear the anecdote that the best way to do mushrooms is in darkness. Anyone have any advice about what dosage I should take or wisdom about doing mushrooms with lights on versus in darkness?? Btw if you don’t know what a sensory deprivation tank is it’s where you float in water with a lot of salt that’s also the temperature of your skin and you’re doing it in darkness; so you literally can’t sense anything at all. Thanks!
What was that experience like for you?
Hi, I'm planning to buy some wireless headset with ANC and I thought, well, this could very well be used under a latex/whatever hood for a bit of sensory deprivation.
Has anyone already tried it? Does it work well or does the hood's layer mess up with the ANC mic?
Also, If this is the goal, I would need a headset that does not stick out of the ear. If anyone has a good recommendation, this is a feature hard to find and hard to evaluate on photos ;)
Some time back I recall reading about a special forces unit (maybe SEAL Team 6) planning for important operations by each of the members entering a sensory deprivation tank, simultaneously, while under the influence of some psychedelic substance.
I vividly recall a quote from one of the soldiers saying that, by training in this manner, they felt that in the midst of the actual operation they could predict and even 'feel' the presence of their team members through the walls.
Anybody else remember this and/or have a source on it? I'm having trouble finding anything now. Thanks!
There’s a floating spa and a town not too far from me and I am considering booking a session or two to see if it provides any pain relief. Even some simple relaxation would be helpful.
Have any of you tried this for your fibro and if so, did it help? Hurt? Do nothing?
I made the conscious choice to post here rather than r/drugs because I have to note this is especially dangerous and I do not recommend this to anyone. Ketamine is a powerful anesthetic and mixing that with any kind of water is always a bad idea. In my personal explorations of consciousness, however, I thought it would be a fun afternoon. Besides I trained my way up to it.
I took a microdose of LSD and headed to my sensory deprivation tank (SDT) around hour 2. I then sat in an infrared sauna for 20 minutes. Then I took a dose a solution of approximately 200mg of Ketamine in 20mL of distilled water rectally administered and began to float.
It was an incredible experience. I couldn't tell you how the Ketamine experience came over me to be honest. Was it slow and steady was it strong and all at once? I couldn't tell you. But I do remember feeling for quite some time underwhelmed at the experience--as in, I could feel the K but it wasn't much different than a sober experience--all the way to, "holy shit this is reaeallly kicking in high gear". Then for the last 15 minutes or so, it faded to a nice calm high. I was definitely still high by the time I got out so I decided to float for another hour. I've never floated more than 1 hour in a single day. The second hour is really what makes you encounter yourself. I really felt like I let go of things that were holding me back in there. It was incredible.
I never want to leave the tank if I'm honest. I have to rent the tank. I wish I could own one and just sleep in it every night. That would be amazing. Even though it was a very positive experience, I did not realize how emotionally spent I would feel after the experience. I had some serious life things that needed taken care of immediately following and I'm very anxious at the moment. I should have planned ahead to know that I won't be able to do anything productive the rest.
Life is really giving me curve balls lately and I'm trapped in this lifestyle* that I don't know how to get out of. I'm worried I might do something quick and without thinking. I almost just smashed my brand new laptop out of anger earlier today. I really had to sit with myself and realize that would not bring about a desirable outcome for myself. What would it accomplish?
To go into more detail about the differences of the float than a normal one, I'll go more into detail of certain aspects of the ketamine experience.
- usually when doing ketamine a greenish tint overcomes m
So a while back, I had stumbled across a post that brought up the idea of music for sensory deprivation. I started a playlist, and so far I only have Rev 22:20 by Puscifer and Infinity by The XX. Are there any songs people would recommend that have that sort of muddy sensation where you feel kinda suspended? Like you're not getting enough and so it heightens your sensation. These are played through noise canceling earbuds, so it's as if everything else is cut off.
Really appreciate any suggestions others who are more experienced might have!
My family got me a sensory deprivation tank gift card for Christmas and I’m worried about if I’d just be under stimulated and anxious the whole time. When I get under stimulated I need to stim and get really anxious but I’m worried if I’m in a weird pod thing in water I won’t be able to move. I also really hate being wet and easily get overstimulated from water touching my face or body. I want to try it but it’s freaking me out. Does anyone have any experience or advice on this?
I have used macro doses to achieve a past life regression experience that I desperately wanted and that curiosity has been satisfied. I no longer trip full scale, eliminated cannabis and nicotine which has resulted in an ability to Lucid dream although I cant seem to control the frequency which I’m sure is directly related to my mental state which varies throughout the year.
I’m toying with the idea of trying smaller doses while in a float spa. Has anyone here tried this? If so…. would you recommend or discourage the experience? Thanks in advance for any shared wisdom.
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Just wondering if anyone has tried floating in a big dark tank to relieve stress. Somewhere close to me has just started this service and I’d be keen but does it help or will it just make me think about everything 100% more because there is nothing to distract me?
Has anyone tried it and what was your experience?
has anyone tried this with hppd? i’d be curious to know of the results since they seem to help people with sensory issues and in a way hppd with the tinnitus and visuals is an overload and it makes you anxious, curious on peoples experience
Has anyone else tried one?
I did for the first time yesterday. I went into it skeptical but optimistic. WOW it was amazing. I struggle greatly with sounds and such. I started it with the colored light on and ocean sounds to help relax at the start of a 90 minute session.
After an unknown amount of time I slipped into a deep of relaxation for the first time in forever, turned the light off and the sounds and just relaxed. No anxiety, no tension, no nothing, not even a random sound. For the first time that I can even remember I was at complete peace and time just faded away.
I know that not everyone's experience would or can be the same. But I was amazed. It has left me with a clearer mind and sense of peace today.
I work at a Float Spa and have been practicing self enquiry within the tank for one year now and had a lot of radical shifts in awareness. The brain gets into a theta state around 30 minutes which usually leads to deep stillness. Lack of distractions and senses also seem to help integrate realizations into your life.
I’d love to hear your experience in the float tank, or even your reasons for not experiencing the float tank as of yet. Please feel free to ask any questions regarding floating or cold plunging and my method of incorporating self inquiry much love.
So at this point in my life I was trying to be more responsible with the way I take psychedelics. I worked on getting into a good mindset the day of, trying to be relaxed and did it with someone whom I had good trips with before. It was a cool fall day at the end of October. Me and my buddy both listened to Terrence McKenna and thought the pinnacle of the 5 grams of mushroom in silent darkness would be to take it in a sensory deprivation tank.
So we blended up our mushroom smoothies, drank them and got on our longboards to basically chill until our 1pm appointment when we figured we would just be leaving the peak of our experience. To give some more context to what we were doing, I was still living with my parents at the time (I was 20 years old) and I had previously had a trip at my house where I freaked out that my parents were going to come home and basically get pissed at me while I was tripping. So even though me and my buddy made the mushrooms in the house, I wanted to be out of the house to avoid the anxiety. I figured I would be fine if I wasn't home.
So basically everything that could go wrong with this trip did go wrong. As soon as we left my house we started long-boarding down this basically bike path through a natural/suburban area on our way to the lake. I shit you not this random guy walking his dog and wearing sunglasses on an overcast day comes up to us as the mushrooms are kicking in and asks us if we had seen two kids around. We obviously said no, and then he said that there was an amber alert out for them and that we should keep an eye out.
My thoughts were starting to race as we left on what could possibly be happening to those poor kids. Were they in trouble? Did some freak in a pedo van take them? To add insult to injury the Joaquin Phoenix Joker movie had just come out and I had gone to see it not too long ago and it just started to get inside my head. Somebody had definitely seen the Joker movie, decided to become a psycho and kidnap some kids. This is obviously delusional, but as I was sitting in the forrest with my buddy and I was watching the fabric of reality twist and turn, it all started to "come together".
Surprisingly I was able to shake it off a bit, I was having diarrhea so we stopped at a gas station so I could shit myself and I was basically just trying to hold it together. My buddy could see I wasn't having a good time and the mushrooms didn't seem to hit them as hard as they were hitting me, he asked if I was a
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