Thursday, June 28, 2012

Sensory Deprivation Tank: Float Session No. 2

So I finally made my way back to Space Time Tanks in Lincoln Park, after about a week and a half of thinking about it constantly since my first visit. Myself and El Jefe have been training ourselves to become super human savages that can transform back and forth between normal humans to blood-thirsty, hyper-intelligent, super beasts... It's going very well if I may say myself. Next week I think we are doing 2 hours to allow ourselves deeper psychological exploration. I had way more fun this time than the first, not to say I didn't like it then, but I came in with expectations of making contact with an superior alien race, so this time... I started by organizing, examining and moving through every idea that came to my mind, pondering longer on the ideas that seemed like they had more traction. The tank seemed a little hotter than last time which was a slight distraction at first but ultimately played a key roll in the incubation sensation I kept slipping into later in the float session. The thing with putting time restraints on a float session is that, when an hour starts coming around, you're thinking of when you're going to get that knock on the outside of the tank letting you know your session is over. It's a distraction. So when I got to that point, after some very deep, physically neutralizing states at the end, I started doing some stretching in the tank while I was floating, kind of like floating yoga, it was pretty rad. It served as a nice way to sort of mentally cool down from the experience. Think of an hour in the tank as doing an hour of intense physical training, but for your brain. You need an minute or two to decompress and adjust your light sensitivity. There's a shower in the room in which you use both before and after your session, so the owners can put a video on youPorn. I bought a multi-float package so I can continue to explore the deep and dark recesses of the conscious and sub-conscious human mind, which will later facilitate my physical transformation into the aforementioned SUPER BEAST! I will show no mercy, and I will kill all. Below you will see some pictures of the tank I took before and after my session, along with a video I pulled over from their website talking a little about the overall experience.





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