After reading this article, I just went ahead and did a floatation session and here I am back after my first 1 hour float.
It was a great experience and 1 hour is definetely not enough to understand it all, but there is a lot of potential there.
The physical sensation itself is really interesting - you feel like a fish and you want to move like a fish in there (doing S movements with your body), then you hear the sound of your bones cracking and liquids moving through your body. The most disturbing was the sheer noise that I constantly have in my ears - a kind of tinnitis which resembles the sounds of a modem and it felt like the noise amplified as I was thinking about emotional things.
You also realise just how much sensorial input our mind processes at any point and how much of reality is filtered away automatically.
I had just a couple of instances when I really 'floated away' for maybe a couple of seconds, but then my mind would always jump back and take control of the situation.
I suppose if I go to more sessions, I will learn how to extend them and go deeper and deeper into the meditative trance state.
The feeling of not having all this sensory input made me feel small, almost microscopic to the point of wondering - who am I, really ?
And that is a good question to ask yourself.
35 EUR/hour is a bit expensive though - but they have sliding prices if you buy more sessions so I'm probably going to do that.
It was a great experience and 1 hour is definetely not enough to understand it all, but there is a lot of potential there.
The physical sensation itself is really interesting - you feel like a fish and you want to move like a fish in there (doing S movements with your body), then you hear the sound of your bones cracking and liquids moving through your body. The most disturbing was the sheer noise that I constantly have in my ears - a kind of tinnitis which resembles the sounds of a modem and it felt like the noise amplified as I was thinking about emotional things.
You also realise just how much sensorial input our mind processes at any point and how much of reality is filtered away automatically.
I had just a couple of instances when I really 'floated away' for maybe a couple of seconds, but then my mind would always jump back and take control of the situation.
I suppose if I go to more sessions, I will learn how to extend them and go deeper and deeper into the meditative trance state.
The feeling of not having all this sensory input made me feel small, almost microscopic to the point of wondering - who am I, really ?
And that is a good question to ask yourself.
35 EUR/hour is a bit expensive though - but they have sliding prices if you buy more sessions so I'm probably going to do that.