Today I went for a much needed float. If you've never done it, I highly recommend it, it's super relaxing.
For those who don't even know what I'm talking about, they used to be called "Sensory Deprivation Tanks" because they were supposed to be depriving you of all your senses for nothing but a total mind-blowing psychedelic experience or something. Of course, the idea of depriving you of your senses just by being shut in a light proof tube is patently ridiculous. You still have every sense you had going in.
More correctly, it's a float tank: a tank, filled with water and about 800lbs or so of Epsom salts. That makes it have a positive buoyancy. You float in these puppies, let me tell you. And you can't feel the sides or bottom of the tank (it's pretty big). The water is warmed to average skin temp, so you barely feel it on your body, and it's dead quiet and dark.
It's amazingly relaxing... you have no pressure on your joints and no distractions from the outside world. If you think about it, how many of us get a chance to spend an entire hour on just us... with no phone, tv, radio, computer, kids, spouse, etc. That alone is worth it! (It's pretty reasonable, $30 for an hour with the ol' student discount.)
It's so relaxing I feel like jello afterwards. If there's a place with float tanks anywhere near you, I highly recommend giving it a try.
For those who don't even know what I'm talking about, they used to be called "Sensory Deprivation Tanks" because they were supposed to be depriving you of all your senses for nothing but a total mind-blowing psychedelic experience or something. Of course, the idea of depriving you of your senses just by being shut in a light proof tube is patently ridiculous. You still have every sense you had going in.
More correctly, it's a float tank: a tank, filled with water and about 800lbs or so of Epsom salts. That makes it have a positive buoyancy. You float in these puppies, let me tell you. And you can't feel the sides or bottom of the tank (it's pretty big). The water is warmed to average skin temp, so you barely feel it on your body, and it's dead quiet and dark.
It's amazingly relaxing... you have no pressure on your joints and no distractions from the outside world. If you think about it, how many of us get a chance to spend an entire hour on just us... with no phone, tv, radio, computer, kids, spouse, etc. That alone is worth it! (It's pretty reasonable, $30 for an hour with the ol' student discount.)
It's so relaxing I feel like jello afterwards. If there's a place with float tanks anywhere near you, I highly recommend giving it a try.
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I gave him his walking papers. I should order my Lourdes to puke in his bed; she is bulimic.