Your body is suspended in this salty solution, which allows you to float.

It is just a tank filled with over 1,000 pounds of epsom salts and 'skin-temperature water' (roughly 94 degrees) devoid of any outside stimuli. Luckily for me, they no longer require any such machinery. Lilly's first sensory deprivation tank required an underwater breathing apparatus. 'In the province of the mind, in the inside reality, what one believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits,' Lilly writes in the book, which sounds like acid-dosed dolphinspeak for the psychology term 'self-fulfilling prophecy,' and I am glad I did my sensory deprivation sessions prior to reading this book. This may not seem immediately relevant to the floating at hand, but makes sense when reading his book, Deep Self: Consciousness in the Isolation Tank, and he refers to things like the 'metabelief operator,' a suitably psychedelic concept aimed at tempering one's expectations before hopping into an isolation chamber. Lilly is best known for studying dolphin communication and taking LSD, as well as giving dolphins LSD. Lilly developed them for the purpose of exploring one's consciousness. Sensory deprivation tanks have been around since 1954, when neuroscientist Dr.

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