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24th July 2019
09:49am BST

There are two options: one is an entire room if you are in any way claustrophobic and the second is an actual tank, but it’s way bigger than the one Homer jumps into so don’t worry.
I’m not going to lie, for the first 15/20 minutes it's very hard to relax. A lot is going through your head as a first time participant. What am I supposed to be thinking of? What am I supposed to be doing? How do I relax? Have they changed this bloody water since the last naked floater?
As it was my first time, they also gave me a floating neck pillow which I started off without but my neck got very sore about 5 minutes in and I had to grab it.
After this initial period you do seem to drift away, pretty much daydreaming as you get lost in your own thoughts.
It was similar to lying on your bed in darkness without any distractions, just you and your thoughts, but what I found interesting was that without these distractions, only important thoughts seem to surface.
I wasn’t worried about social media and followers but more on real life decisions, like career and health, and real life people and relationships. This is the time that’s supposed to be very good for creative thinkers and it’s not often you slip into this state of mind so I enjoyed this part.
In saying this, you are still quite aware you’re in this tank and return to reality every now and then.
Until the last 10/15 minutes.
For this period I couldn’t tell you if I was asleep, dreaming, awake or hallucinating. Quite trippy.
Not that anything mad was happening, I was just so relaxed my thoughts either seemed like dreams or my dreams were coming to life. Most probably, I was slipping in and out of sleep.
You feel neither here nor there; no stress, no worries, just calmly floating in space.
I can’t report too much on this part as you really have slipped away into complete relaxation at this point which is the entire goal of this practice.
So yes, this had worked on me.
You then hear a big knock on the outside of your tank and the hour is over.