I learned I had claustrophobia, a fear of small spaces, while on a night bus in Cambodia. A lack of airflow triggers me, so I decided to try a sensory-deprivation tank to conquer my fear. Though I ...

“You don’t have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.” A simple sentence of complex proportions made by Dr. John C. Lilly, a neurophysiologist and psychoanalyst who, among other things, ...

White, boxy and equipped with a futuristic exit hatch, the Samadhi sensory deprivation tank resembles a space pod. It's filled with 800 pounds of Epsom salt dissolved in 150 gallons of ...

Flotation therapy was invented in the 1950s and caught on in the 1980s thanks partly to the movie “Altered States,” in which William Hurt played a professor experimenting with sensory deprivation ...

I am floating. In a black void with no visuals even though I wave my palm in front of my face, I hear nothing; an absolute silence tuned out through wax earplugs and noiseless walls, I feel nothing ...

It’s a pretty special experience to have a facial followed by a “float.” Add in a massage, and you can create a full afternoon of wellness at Dream & Dreams Float Spa and Wax It Skin Studio, at 70 W.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Levi Wertz’s first float tank experience began how many did in Lincoln in the early 2010s — in an industrial-looking steel box in Jeremy Warner’s basement. Wertz had been ...

I am a rubber duckie. No, a leaf. No, a flower petal. Adrift on a pond. No, on an ocean. A calm, salty ocean with no beginning or end. Boundless. Buoyant. Blissful. Do I have a body? I don’t know ...

If the words 'float tank' (or 'sensory depravation tank') bring to mind images of Homer Simpson splashing about in the dark and then going on a hallucinogenic trip (see the episode Make Room For Lisa ...