Thread: Floatation tanks= Amazing!

Originally Posted by dragonoverlord

Hey talkinghead have you tried a floatation tank yet? Can you tell us what it was like and just the details of your experence?

Hahaha.. I heard about that Simpson's episode.. And I know this sounds like the sensory deprivation torture device but somehow I think that was a lot different.. This really isn't intense at all and its not risky.

So far my experience has been really deep meditation.. And when I get out its like I have heigtened senses of everything. I'm trying it tonight with some melatonin so I'll report back

Originally Posted by TalkingHead

Hahaha.. I heard about that Simpson's episode.. And I know this sounds like the sensory deprivation torture device but somehow I think that was a lot different.. This really isn't intense at all and its not risky.

So far my experience has been really deep meditation.. And when I get out its like I have heigtened senses of everything. I'm trying it tonight with some melatonin so I'll report back

Thanks for replying and good luck

I always thought it was like on the simpsons though...to bad.

I have one of those floatation tanks in my basement, which I used for a couple of years about 18 years ago, but then never hooked it back up after I moved to where I live now.

My wife calls it my coffin.

I was using it to try to have an out of body experience with, and used to sleep in it at night.

Although I never had an out of body experience while using it that I remember, I did have several times that I felt I must have been trying to leave my body, because my body would jerk like it was pulling me back in.

It was a little boring laying there floating in total darkness just listening to my heart beat, which was usually quite loud from my ears being underneath the water while floating, and my back would usually pop really good after floating in the water for a while.

Maybe if I had known about lucid dreaming at the time it would have been more beneficial to me.

I may set it back up again the next time I move, although it is a little expensive to buy the 800 lbs of epsom salts, and keep the water heated, as I had 4 water bed heaters underneath it that I used to keep the water heated with.

where do you live IADR? Is it a Samadhi?

Originally Posted by TalkingHead

where do you live IADR? Is it a Samadhi?

Nebraska. No, it is something other than a Samadhi. Unsure what brand it is. It just looks like a large coffin.

BTW, here's a link to the Samadhi sight that has a lot of useful information about floating.

I was reading what one of the customers wrote about their first experiences in the tank, and their experiences were about the same that I experienced, no visions, no 3-D objects, no leaving the body, no entities, no infinite space, no nothing.

http://www.samadhitank.com/firsttime.html

Originally Posted by Through the Looking Glass

I've been wanting to try this in my own home. I don't have my own flotation tank but I was thinking of just using my bathtub. My bathroom has no windows in it (weird I know) so it can be really dark. I just need to make the water the room temperature (approximately) but do you really need 800 lbs of epsom salt? My problem trying to WILD is feeling the force of gravity being exerted on my body I can't detach myself from reality so I think this could be really useful for me.

I tried several things before purchasing my float tank from a float tank center.

I had a swimming pool filled with water with a large piece of foam that I floated on in a dark wooded room I had built, which was fairly good, although the water got a little cold because I was not heating it.

So there may be a way a person could build something like this without having to use the epsom salts, although the epsom salts allow a person to really feel what it is like to be floating.

I've thought about having a permanent type of float tank built into my bathroom someday when I retire.

You would want the tank close to a shower because when you get out of it you need to take a shower since the epsom salts starts drying on your body.

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Now that I think about it, the best way to experience something like this without messing with all of the epson salts, etc, would probably be to use a water bed, one without all any foam built into it, and just build a dark little room around the water bed, as this would give you somewhat of a similar experience to floating without all of the hastles. Although the advantages of floating with your ears underneath the water is that this allows you to hear all of the internal workings of the body, like the heart beating, the stomach growling, etc.

How high is the chance of falling into the water, I can just imagine. Your first WILD ever in there, you feel so great as you enter into the lucid dream after 7 months of practice. Finally you feel what it is like to be lucid...but the dream starts to fade, you try to stabilize it, but you cant breath! You wake up extremely annoyed and extremely disipointed.

i didn't know it sticks to your body. I'll remember to keep that in mind if I ever decide to try it. And as for what hootman said, that's my biggest fear. I'd definitely make sure part of my head is resting above the water. I mean what if you don't wake up!!

I love float tanks and just did my 20th float. I float for 90min at a time. There's no danger in using them at all. I get lucid at times which is very easy to do in the tank.

I record my visions here: patterntology.blogspot.com

I'm in Tucson Arizona and float here:
Still Waters