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I had my first sensory deprivation tank experience about a month ago and I gotta wonder what kind of drugs you all are doing before hand to have these experienc

I had my first sensory deprivation tank experience about a month ago and I gotta wonder what kind of drugs you all are doing before hand to have these experiences you're describing. I had heard a lot of stories and I was looking forward to seeing something. All I saw was the same shit I've ever seen behind my eyelids when laying down in bed at night: random retinal ghosting. I didn't feel anything. There wasn't anything special about it. It was exactly the sum of all the parts: like taking a warm bath and having some peace and quiet for a change. It was nice, but not in any way approaching anything that could be life changing. Go sit in a hot tub with ear plugs and a sleep mask and you're 99% there at a fraction of the cost and without the bullshit "healing crystals" upsell. Or maybe that's the problem. Maybe y'all got some serious problems of being way too high-strung in your daily life.

vxNsr 5y ago
It sounds like the author and many of the commenters here (who claim benefits) didn’t go into it blind. They began their mindfulness journey by practicing meditation, and then after a while got into a tank. Thus they were predisposed to having a useful experience, bec they’d done a lot of the mindfulness work already. The float tank just makes reaching a mindfulness state easier, if you already have some of “the tools”. You sound like someone who hasn’t done any of the work to reach a mindful state and thus had a terrible experience more akin to solitary confinement. I actually wholeheartedly disagree with the author’s conclusion that a SDtank is a shortcut. He’s using his own experience and the results of one or two studies in a field fraught with badly managed studies that can rarely be replicated. That is, I don’t believe the studies can be taken at face value.
- moron4hire 5y ago
  I don't know how you got from me saying "it was nice" to "you sound like someone (who had) a terrible experience".

vxNsr 5y ago

It sounds like the author and many of the commenters here (who claim benefits) didn’t go into it blind. They began their mindfulness journey by practicing meditation, and then after a while got into a tank. Thus they were predisposed to having a useful experience, bec they’d done a lot of the mindfulness work already. The float tank just makes reaching a mindfulness state easier, if you already have some of “the tools”. You sound like someone who hasn’t done any of the work to reach a mindful state and thus had a terrible experience more akin to solitary confinement. I actually wholeheartedly disagree with the author’s conclusion that a SDtank is a shortcut. He’s using his own experience and the results of one or two studies in a field fraught with badly managed studies that can rarely be replicated. That is, I don’t believe the studies can be taken at face value.

moron4hire 5y ago
I don't know how you got from me saying "it was nice" to "you sound like someone (who had) a terrible experience".