How many times do we take the time to listen to what's in our mind?
It's quite an acclamation to go from experiencing the outside world to experiencing the inside
world.
Going into the float tank, I didn't know what to expect.
I was pretty terrified by what might happen or what was going on in there.
Probably in my last 15 minutes or so, I started really experiencing some wonderful things
in my float.
It's just peaceful.
I'm already floating.
Float tanks or sensory deprivation tanks are essentially a very large bathtub, generally
about 8 feet by 4 to 5 feet.
In it is just 10 inches of water, but mixed into that 10 inches is 850 pounds of epsom
salt.
So, you're in this kind of weird anti-gravity space that humans don't usually get to experience.
I just had a visualization, I was like a completely still pond, and there was just
no movement at all.
I just had the visualization of like a lily pad or a lotus on the pond, and that was me.
And there's a whole range.
You know, it's everything from just a feeling of ease and relaxation, to a feeling of floating,
to a feeling of flying, out of body experiences, regression to past memories tend to be much
more vivid.
Just thinking this day and age, it's a good thing to just balance out our hectic lives
with something like this.
I see like swirling purple, yellow, green, and it's like a light show.
It's usually for me this feeling of that really deep space between everything.
Yeah, so it was like the exact opposite of every day of my life.
After floating, I feel really present to everything and really fully experiencing all my senses
and things I feel really in my body.
And that usually lasts me for a few days.
People go in there and they see swirling colors, and they see, you know, gorillas riding on
surfboards, and someone just saw like a lady in a portrait that ran away as soon as it
got close to him.
I remember all of a sudden, I was in like a catacomb, you know, like a cavern, kind
of like an Italian grotto or something.
Well, it's initially black and then I get a lot of red and a lot of red.
It's like a light show.
You just watch.
I don't know whether it's in my mind's eye or in front of my eyes.
I remember walking after the float and just kind of like crossing the street feeling like,
wow, I feel like in a really good mood right now.
There are a lot of benefits to floating and they kind of break down into some major categories.
So there's the physical benefits, which all comes from the gravity reduction in there.
So injuries heal faster while you're in a float tank.
Your body actually physically rests faster while you're in a float tank.
And that's one of the primary reasons I come to the Float Shop, to experience that anti-gravity,
the weightlessness, because when I'm weightless, there's a lot of healing that's going on in
my body and my muscles and my joints.
And then there's the whole mental side of it, which has a lot to do with the sensory
deprivation, the fact that you're cutting off external stimuli in there.
The mental piece is huge, I mean, there's a physical component, of course, but most
of it's a mental.
That's stretching a bit.
And there's no scientific study that says that float tanks restore harmony in your body
but stress is what it feels like once you get out.
Everybody has this glow.
I don't know exactly what it is, but it is a glow.
I think floating for me helps me create the mystical experience in this body that we're
given in this world that we live in.
So it's kind of like finding the mystical experience inside yourself, it's pretty cool.
It's sort of like an invitation to the greatest adventure.
It's right there every single day, and most of the time we ignore it.
You guys are wet, just like me.
There's never going to be any flying cars for starters.
No flying cars in the future.
You can mix that idea.
Other than that, man, that's pretty badass.
I recommend it.
At about 30 minutes of that, that Theta wave action where you literally feel like you're
sleeping but you're not sleeping.
And then outside of that, you're just playing, you're just playing, you're just getting comfortable,
you're floating.
I just got to process it now, back in the reality, cut.
