Anyone every try one?? I'm making an appointment somewhere in the city for an hour sometime this month, who's with me?!
StarSoprano426
I've always been interested in doing that. I would love to try it, but isn't it really expensive? Lemme know and if it's reasonable I'll go :)
DJ Eco
70 bucks an hour... It seems worth it, at least to try it...
kadomony
my friend and i were talking suggesting this hookah bar in edgewater get one. i dunno if he ever did.
StarSoprano426
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Originally posted by DJ Eco
70 bucks an hour... It seems worth it, at least to try it...
Oh that's not terrible. I had heard crazy things like 5 hundo an hour. I'm definitely interested. Let me know what you find out.
RoBDaWG
i'm a little confused how this works? are you acctually in water?
looks sweet as hell though, they should put 'em in at pacha
kadomony
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Originally posted by RoBDaWG
i'm a little confused how this works? are you acctually in water?
looks sweet as hell though, they should put 'em in at pacha
yea you're in hyper-saturatated salt-water at body temperature so your head floats above the water and you lose all sense of your body's boundary. sessions should last 90 minutes.
verndogs
I think I'd go bat crazy if I was in one of these tanks.
I'll pass
jonnypmo
I heard Rogan talk about this before and it sounds amazing. Unfortunately you don't have the relaxation 'trips' your first couple times because you need to get used to it. I'll get into that more below...
They're also called sensory deprivation tanks. The tanks are filled with 800 pounds of salt so it becomes very dense and you float. The water temperature is like...93.5 degrees or something, which is the temperature of your skin so while lying there you have no idea where the water begins/ends and where the air begins/ends. There is no sound, there is no light, nothing.
It was designed to see what would happen when the brain was deprived of all its senses. Your first few times apparently your brain makes 'busy work' and you feel very itchy even though you are not. The challenge is to not itch if you can help it.
I've always wanted to try an isolation tank. There aren't any around in my area, but I've had a few friends that have gone to them and they say its a really relaxing experience and completely worth it.
EDIT: Completely missed you had a video linked...would have saved me some typing :P
RoryJames
my studio is an isolation tank and i get 'these visions' when im in it.
GTS3gEclipse
Floatation Tank Center
936 Glenview Rd.
Ridgewood, NJ 07450 USA
Lets go!
Uncle ED
Anyone ever see the movie Altered States with Willima Hurt?
Edward Jessup (Hurt) is a university scientist, who while studying schizophrenia, begins to think that "our other states of consciousness are as real as our waking states."[2] Jessup begins experimenting with sensory-deprivation experiments using a flotation tank, and travels to Mexico to participate in an amanita muscaria ceremony, where he experiences bizarre intense imagery. Jessup returns to the U.S. with a mushroom tincture and begins using it while in the floatation tank where he undergoes a series of transformations, experiencing biological devolution. At one stage Jessup becomes a wild, neanderthal-like humanoid, and later, a sort of giant amoeba.
Ultimately the doctor devolves into a swirling, primordial mass, only to be rescued by his wife and restored to his humanity.
