A sensory deprivation chamber is a small chamber filled with water which has plenty of salt to make you buoyant and allows you to float with your senses being tricked into emptiness. Why would you need such device? I asked myself that too but listening to Joe Rogan and his experience I feel like I need to try this. Perhaps with a good dose of DMT, the only drug I would allow myself to try one day. All in hopes to reach a new spiritual level and find some answers. So sad…we are so lost.
Floatation tanks are great!
I did a series of experiments in them about 30 years ago and spent a little over 300 cumulative hours in a variety of tanks.
I forget the exact numbers now, but the general theory was that we take in about 40 bits of data per second with our conscious mind, while our subconscious mind takes in 40 million bits per second (again don’t quote me on those numbers).
As I understand it, one of the ideas behind the development of the floatation tanks was to deprive you of your conscious inputs so you could access your subconscious mind (which some say is the real you) more readily. Some believe there is a 3rd level of consciousness, often referred to as the Universal Mind, a kind of collective intelligence or hive-mind that is not bound by man-made constructs like time. I believe that is what the gentleman in the 2nd video may have been referring to when he suggested he felt a kind of universal connection.
Creative types have often claimed to have their greatest breakthrough’s or “eureka” moments when they have successfully been able to relax and access this Subconscious/Universal mind during naps or baths or other times where they have shut down at least a portion of the noisy conscious mind.
If the above thinking is correct, that would kind of make sense. If one of the primary foundations foundations of creativity is abstract thought or the ability to connect ideas across multiple fields of interest, then having access to much more data through your Subconscious/Universal mind may be what leads to what we refer to as genius.
My own experiments were more along the line of whether we could accelerate our learning capacity by delivering and retrieving data directly via the Subconscious mind, by-passing our much slower conscious mind. We actually used techniques to try and replicate the womb-like environment (like the fellow mentioned in the second video talked about). The idea was to trick the mind back into that “purely absorbent” state when our minds are more receptive to input and spend less time critically analyzing the input based on our experience biases. The results were quite amazing!
Sorry about the long diatribe. I just wanted to suggest that in addition to being able to tap into a deeper level of yourself, there could be a lot of undiscovered work that could be harvested through sensory deprivation tanks.
Thanks for the input Grant, it definitely gives me more motivation to try one on my own. I always found it hard to meditate due to distractions, perhaps this is the way for amateurs like me.
Thanks for your explanation, fascinating.
No problem!
I think you definitely would find it helpful for getting your mind and body attuned to meditation. Once you are able to reach the meditative state in the tank quickly and easily, you will probably be able to do the same outside the tank.
Best of luck!
Grant