Anyone here ever tried or researched sensory deprivation tanks… I would like to try one eventually. In it, you are placed in a pod with salt water with pitch blackness and deprived of all your sense, all is left is your thoughts… I’ve heard it is incredibly therapeutic and is similar to being in the womb, with all the benefits that carries…
I think it would freak me out. I tend to get claustrophobic in spaces that small, although I am also slightly agoraphobic 
I have to add that I don’t actually have a diagnosis for any of those, so I am using those terms loosely.
But yeah, I would probably panic.
I am curious as to what I would experience if I weren’t so scared.
Lol. I think most people on this site would panick at that idea. Neurotypicals are afraid sensory deprivation tanks. You, sir, are a warrior!
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In the eighties, I used to work at a small business that had one of those. My boss charged the public $20.00 for an hour and a half to use it but he let me use it for free a couple of times. I had been diagnosed just few years before.
Just about that time a movie had been released called “Altered States” in which the story had revolved around a guy who used a tank and it drove him crazy or something or he regressed into some weird person or something. But the movie did well at the box office and it popularized isolation tanks.
So while I worked there, when customers came to rent the tank about 50% of them had seen"Altered States " and they were a little afraid to use or they would go insane. I was a little afraid too but I got in it and to tell you the truth, the whole experience was a disappointing dud. None of the benefits I had heard about before worked for me. I liked the warm salt water and the sensation of floating without sinking but it did nothing else for me. I didn’t clear my mind, it didn’t solve any of my problems, being isolated did not give me any great insights into myself. It was a dull, boring dud.
But just for the record, my job was near San Francisco and some of the players for our San Francisco Giants baseball team actually came in to use the tank.
I didn’t mention this, but the isolation tank had a small opening above your head with a video screen installed in it. So the baseball players would bring videos of themselves at bat in a game and they would float there and study their swing and try to improve on it or study what they were doing wrong and it would hopefully improve their game.
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Last thing I need is anything to make me more withdrawn and more isolation. Just seems a very bad idea with sz.
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i like the idea but idk if it would work as a cure, sleep really helps though i guess maybe that is a similar thing
It seems gross to me. The thought of other bodies having been in it… ughhh
An old turtle crawls back to his cave.
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I didn’t even think of that until now! My therapist wants me to try it, but my insurance won’t cover it. The one by me has a room with high ceilings for the people who are afraid of the pods.
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Does anybody even know what you’re supposed to do in one of these?
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Basically, a warm safe, quiet, comfortable place to contemplate and relax with absolutely no distractions.
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They can be dangerous.
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Float in nothing but salt water…
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I am going to improvise a tank with my bathtub and record my before and after on YouTube. Here it is.
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Cool idea…!!!
“Sensory Deprivation Tank”
the new Matrix
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After Tank Immersion
Minus the salt water tank, being in a pitch black room with no sounds is kinda soothing, until ya gotta go pee - where’s the light switch!