I certainly would! Becoming a monkey wouldn't stop me. Would anyone else on this board try one of these puppies, or have they ever?
shareHell yeah that would be cool. I wouldn't take drugs though while doing it. Bad experiences with hallucinagenic drugs.
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Yes I would try , but I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to bear the claustrophoby.
If I managed to do it the first time , I would try it again with cannabies. I don't know if I ever would have the courage to use LSD or mushrooms in a SD tank though, but I'm a bit jealous of those who have the guts.
I've done floatation tanks a few times, not quite the same but heading in the direction of the Sensory Deprivation Tanks. It's quite spooky floating in the dark with your own breath being the only sound you can hear.
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they don't use them in gitmo, they don't need to. The torture technique known as "the vietnam" where the subject is forced to stand on a box with a bag over his head is enough to induce sensory deprivation, and a sense of overwhelming disorientation. Add in electrodes attached to the fingers to instill fear of being shocked any second, and it breaks the mind of the subject quickly enough. A dark room achieves the same result. The main goal with interrogation based sensory deprivation is to deprive the person of human contact, to the point where they want to see and interact with any living person, and will become subservient to even their own captor, if only for the interaction. A tank would take up space, they'd need to keep it the right temperature, keep it filled with magnesium sulfate, and would need to lock the subject in, which would make it easy for him to drown himself, so it's not practical to use as a torture device. It only works if you want to be in it.
shareif i built the mother myself, i would. if someone else was operating, heck no.
shareActually, a slight temperature variance too hot or too cold and you can end up in trouble in a tank. Much better off with a well intended operator the first few times.
shareWhat, there's not a plug at the bottom I can pull to release the water? Is this a Houdini act? I have to figure out how to get out or how to signal? Forget it. I'm out.
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Hell, I've been wanting to do it since I saw it on the simpsons.
But now I REALLY want to.
I should have just done the honest thing and murdered those emusshare
I tried it once. It was very relaxing, except that I kept bumping into the sides of the tank. After it was over I felt peaceful and my body was very relaxed. While I've had many psychedelic experiences, I've never had a chance to go into a tank with an expanded POV. A five gram mushroom trip is intense enough in a dark, silent bedroom. But I suppose if you REALLY wanted to talk to a higher intelligence you could couple the 2 together and cruise hyperspace for a trillion light years. I don't think it would turn you into a primal ape/blob-thing though...
shareI'd love to. But only after smoking DMT.
shareYou can have an Out of Body Experience (OBE) without drugs in a deprivation tank.
You can have one just going to sleep.
However a tank could help induce it. You do not need any kind of drug to do it...
After all it is ONLY a movie...Not Real Life!
About 1994 I was in college taking classes for a degree in Psychology. One of my professors told us about this type of sensory deprivation and that if we wanted to try it, there was one "close by" in Grass Valley, CA.
This was in some guy's home. My friend and I decided to try it out. With a stranger owning the tank and it being in his home we were wary but open to the experience...
You have an hour to be in the tank and ear plugs were provided - which I didn't use and later regretted - to keep the salt water our of your ears.
He had a room made up just for this mork from ork like egg shaped tank with a shower in the corner of the room to rinse off in.
My time in the tank is something I didn't forget for a long while. It is pitch black and the water is the same temperature as your body. After feeling weird for a short period of time (uncomfortable that I was floating naked in a strangers egg pod) I eventually couldn't feel the difference of my "body" in or out of the water unless my outstretched fingers touched the sides of the tank.
Eventually, I hallucinated or had some kind of experience. I felt I was reaching out to touch Jesus. I felt like I could actually feel and touch him with no boundaries. I felt within a presence.
This coming from a person who is not religious and does not attend church. So that was a very profound experience for me.
After the experience my friend and I went to dinner. I told my friend that I was in such a state of peace that if two people got in a fight, right outside the window, I was so peaceful that I didn't even think I'd flinch.
She didn't feel anything special while in the tank. But thought it was a nice time to relax and think. She did not feel as relaxed or peaceful as I did afterwards.
So I suggest if you ever have the chance to do this, that you do. One of the most unique experiences of my life. Afterwards I thought that man was very lucky to be able to do that everyday of his life.
p.s. We were on no drugs...and had no expectations of what we would experience
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