Anybody here tried Floatation Tanks? (phobia, salt, therapy, effects)

[rishi85]

Floatation therapy is a niche market, hardly known. It is gaining steam in the Pacifica region(Vancouver, San Francisco and especially Portland) and float centers are cropping up around North America. Still nowhere compared to Europe which currently has more than 300 centers. It gained momentum in the 80s with a slew of articles in the New york times and a movie-Altered States- but fizzled out again.

Float tanks are basically tanks filled with Epsom Salts(great source of magnesium). A person enters the space and basically floats like a bottle because of the buoyancy provided by the salt. The effect is said to be different for different folks, ranging from a sense of rejuvenation to a spiritual high even. It has tremendous effects physically as well with subjects noticing a sense of well being.

Anyone heard of float tanks?
Anyone floated?

Please share your experience.

[Cheektowaga_Chester]

Sounds like one of those things that 99.9999% percent of people who did it, tried it exactly one time - just to try it. And the number of people who do it after the first time decays as a 10th order exponent.

[Miss Hepburn]

My friend's mom had one...I didn't realize they used Epsom Salt or magnesium sulfate...which we are
all so deficient in bec of our soil. Maybe bec she just used sea salt....hmm, don't know.
I also don't remember any bitterness associated with Epsom Salts...
I find the same effect with meditation...but understand I meditate for hrs
and hrs in a sitting for 4 decades...
It is a good thing...I support ANYthing that will cause people to go inside.

I am cautious with public places because of germs, tho...that's just me, I'm sure they're
fine.

[PhotogGal]

I had heard of flotation tanks back when I lived in the Chicago area and wanted very much to try one but never got the opportunity. I loved the idea of them but was a little fearful of a sudden onset of claustraphobia or something.