My Trip Into the Darkness of Sensory Deprivation

Yesterday, I went for a float in a sensory deprivation tank.

I haven’t done it in a few years but I was glad to be back into the womb.

It takes meditation to a whole ‘nother level as you float in pitch-black darkness. You can’t see a thing and you sometimes don’t even know whether your eyes are closed or not.

You also have earplugs that form an airtight seal over your ears so you don’t hear a single thing either.

So you float there in the saltwater, listen to your breath, and meditate. You might bump up against the sides of the tank on occasion but most of the time you feel like you’re in the vacuum of space with the infinite embrace of the darkness around you.

There are certainly times when you’re not sure whether you’re awake or not. Sometimes you jolt awake because you’ve reached a trance-like state, and sometimes you start seeing shapes in the darkness. Shapes that aren’t there because your eyes are playing tricks on you.

Some people will tell you that it’s such an intense experience that you start hallucinating, but that seems like the type of thing people say who don’t have experience in the matter.

Overall, it’s a really relaxing experience and definitely centers you in a way that other types of…