Floatation tanks= Amazing!

I've seen some outlandish claims about floatation tanks by people that have never done it before. Hallucinations? Hallucinations after the float? Never. Dream visions like the ones gained from meditation or relaxation or WILD, yes.

It ain't drugs. It's like meditation. Advanced bathing. With the lights off. Nothing to be scared of. You can't be scared of a really good waterbed. The tank I float in has lights and underwater speakers you turn on and off yourself.

There is something weird about it, aliens and mad scientists or something. The movie Altered States doesn't help. I assure you, it's a perfectly benign thing to try. It's a great creative tool for me.

ya know guys, you're not supposed to sleep in these tanks, that ruins the whole point of using them lol..

The idea is to have the senses taken away, so the mind can wander....if you look up the greek meaning to hallucination it means 'to wander in mind'

So, the point is the stay conscious and to let your mind wander, you will see things...feel things...hear things and from what I understand the use of cannabis prior to the tank REALLY helps propel visions and sounds.

I really don't recommend sleeping in those things, defeats the purpose and you will wakeup with mushy skin from being submerged too long. Plus, I think epson salt isn't really great for your hair if you sleep in that thing.


I wish I had a sens. dep. tank...I would practically spend all my time in there during the day because day to day life is such a boring repetitive drag.

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Originally Posted by guerilla

I really don't recommend sleeping in those things, defeats the purpose and you will wakeup with mushy skin from being submerged too long. Plus, I think epson salt isn't really great for your hair if you sleep in that thing.


I wish I had a sens. dep. tank...I would practically spend all my time in there during the day because day to day life is such a boring repetitive drag.

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Sleeping in the tank doesn't defeat the purpose, it's just using it for something else, i.e. having lucid dreams (WILDs) more easily. Which, personally, I think is much better than taking drugs to hallucinate. I doubt that's what they were originally intended for. :roll: Besides, like a couple of people said already, using a float tank doesn't make you hallucinate. I think the original purpose of float tanks was just to relax, but I'm just guessing.

You also don't recommend sleeping in it because staying in too long is bad for your skin/hair. And yet if you had one, you would spend all your time in it. I highly doubt it matters whether you're awake or asleep when you spend extended amounts of time in there.

yea I guess you have a good point with that last paragraph with the hair...that was a dumb blonde moment, only im not blonde lol..

oh and just to confirm this, relaxing in the tank does cause profound hallucinations if you let yourself go, watch that joe rogan interview, he has been using those tanks for years and he goes in sober and still hallucinates...

Heck, I can make myself hallucinate normally, I bet a sens tank would make me have a full blown trip.


And the whole idea of using drugs in the tank was sprung about from the movie Altered States, I recommend seeing that movie...its so crazy.

But its not exactly...realistic, people can't turn into prehistoric monkeys from psychedelic states lol

I've never seen Altered States... maybe I will.

I started learning about DMT from the Joe Rogan interview, which led me to his site. Then I saw the flotation tanks, and he was talking about them and he mentioned the "Altered States" Movie. I have netflix so I watched it on the site and I was like WTF??? That movie tripped me out.

I would love to try a flotation tank. I think I'll trip out if I smoke some mary jane beforehand. I am craving a psycadelic experience ever since I saw the Movie, and the Joe Rogan interviews. The nearest flotation tank is at least 3 hours away.

Yeah. I saw one of them on a simpsons episode and I said, Like OMG!! It's just like lucid dreaming!! COOL!

Anyone have any ideas how to make one of these tanks? I know you need some kind of UV filtration and a way to heat the water but does anyone have any idea how this works and what kind of things you need?

I have an underwater heater which has a temperature control on it to regulate the water temp, but I'm thinking I should use a thermostat to more accurately control it.

Other than that I guess it's just a matter of building water-tight 8ft tank that is complete pitch black,sound proof and ventilated.