How I fell in love with a sensory deprevation tank!
Back in 2015 I finally had my appointment at a research lab in austria’s capital city Vienna. I decided to try the „floating experience“ for myself and this was the day.
Let me share my authentic experiences with you as a “first time” user.
What is floating, where did it come from and why even do it?
“Floating” means floating in a tank of saturated salt-water, that’s being kept at body temperature. The tank is sound- and lightproof and while you’re in there, you completely lose orientation, your feeling for the passing of time and more or less „detach“ from the real world. Good.
Sounds spooky? Not necessarily but possibly. Floating was originally used as „sensory deprevation tanks“ during the CIA MK-Ultra experiments and also as torture method. There’s lots of declassified information on this, which was once “only another conspiracy theory”.
The goals of MK-Ultra were mind control, remote viewing and enhancement of mental abilities. For that purpose probants were injected with LSD and put into such tanks for hours — with really weird consequences. Some lost their mind and went crazy, others had horror-trips, but most and many recovered afterwards.
