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Location: Dublin, Ireland
since i don't have anyone to spoil me i've decided to spoil myself and have just booked 3 1hour sessions in a floatation tank. i'm really looking forward to it
they say that 1 hour floating is the equivalent of 6 hours sleep!
has anyone ever been in one? i'd love to hear about it.....
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playing the days away
7,263 posts
Location: The Middle lands, United Kingdom
no but they sounds fantastic!! I slept on George's little boat last wek and had the best sleep for probably years with all the gentle rocking and such.
Let us know how it goes cuz I wouldn't mind trying this myself!
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veteran
1,459 posts
Location: Dublin, Ireland
yeh, i'll be sure to let you know
here is where i'm going. it sounds amazing. you have the choice of listening to the sound of panpipes and waves, or floating in total silence. i can't wait
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journeyman
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Location: Germany
enjoy it
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Sounds good - Let us know how you go
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Location: Tampa, Florida, USA
hopefully it doesnt turn out like that simpsons episode.....
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old hand
845 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
That looks really good!
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HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
I've done a float. It wasn't at all what I expected, tho.
It certainly wasn't the equivalent of 6 hours of sleep and I didn't trip balls like I was told I would. Maybe I needed to be in there more than an hour. But it was really cool and really relaxing.
A couple of tips from experience:
Don't shave that morning if you can avoid it. The water is super salty and it will make your face sting. Felt like fire ants crawling on my face, it did!
Leave your eyes open as much as possible. In the dead silence, with your ears submerged, you can actually hear the vibrations of the muscle fibers in your eyelids contracting if you close your eyes. It's completely dark, so there's no need to close your eyes.
Take a GOOD, LONG shower afterwards. The water is ultra-salty and it will leave a film on you if you don't get it all off. Wash your hair twice or three times. I thought I had it all off of me, but I spent the rest of the day feeling all gross from it.
Oh, and don't use the music. Complete sensory deprivation is pretty cool.
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holy man
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Location: Upstate, NY, USA
OMG, that looks so cool. I would love to try it.
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that sounds pretty cool
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Still wiggling
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Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Have a lovely time Lisa,
That'd be great - to have a full hour of total peace and quiet
xx
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I agree with lightning, Afterwards i did feel like i had a second skin though from all the salt.
Don't worry if your first time is not the most relaxing time ever because i've been told the more time's you float the deeper relaxed your body will go each time. The hour goes Incredibly quick and when your finished i think i was told to make sure i drank heaps of water.
Otherwise enjoy it. It is an incredible experince.
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wow it must be fantastic to get so much outta nothing!!
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veteran
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Location: Dublin, Ireland
Written by: There is no 'e' in 'Lightning'
A couple of tips from experience:
Don't shave that morning if you can avoid it. The water is super salty and it will make your face sting. Felt like fire ants crawling on my face, it did!
why is it everyone on HoP thinks i'm a guy 
*considers name change*but yeh, they've already told me that it will take a while to adjust, and that i'll probably relax more during the 2nd & 3rd session than the 1st one.
told some of my friends about it last night, and now there 1definite, & 1 maybe coming with me
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Pirate Ninja
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Location: Galway/Ireland
I thought you were a guy because ummm *decides to shut the hell up*
I was very pleasantly surprised to find out you were indeed a girly when we met!
Love is the law.
veteran
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Location: Dublin, Ireland
My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely
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Location: Cork, Ireland
I wanna go there too sometime. My former boss once told me about those tanks. They were pretty famous in the 70s. He said it's nearly like a *ohherecomesahardword* psychedelic trip because your body is nearly like flying / agravic and since you nearly have any sense at all left (no noise, no light,...) your brain starts playing tricks on you...
I don't know if it's the same in those tanks though.... "I see," said the blind man.
veteran
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Location: Dublin, Ireland
i certainly hope it is
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playing the days away
7,263 posts
Location: The Middle lands, United Kingdom
Written by: Fab
ok don't shave your legs or armpits before you go in, I hear it feels like fire ants if you do
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284 posts
Location: Cork, Ireland
Yeah just imagine... what did it say? 300kg Salt.... Jesus!
"I see," said the blind man.
505 posts
Location: cambs england
theyre like crazy alien pods! ahh!!!!
but still wow! the the next sessions will be more intense then...
and yer! im not a man, but my title is deceiving...
in state of metamorphosis
HOP Mad Doctor
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Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Written by: Fabergé
Because I thought I saw a gallery of you and you were a guy...
Oh well, then DO NOT shave your legs. Or your bikini area, for that matter! EEEEEEEK!!!!
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
veteran
1,459 posts
Location: Dublin, Ireland
believe me, i have never been a guy. and i have witnesses who will attest to this if you saw a picture of me and thought i was a guy i might be quite offended, but that's quite impossible, as i don't have a gallery on HoP (yet)
but thanks for the shaving tips ( .....
..... look what you've done man, you even have me speaking like a guy ) My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely
playing the days away
7,263 posts
Location: The Middle lands, United Kingdom
Maybe you're a gay man trapped in a womans body! 
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HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
That would suck...
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
veteran
1,459 posts
Location: Dublin, Ireland
that's not nice
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HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Oh, honey, it's not so bad. It just means we need to update your wardrobe a bit. *giggles and runs for his life*
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Pirate Ninja
3,882 posts
Location: Galway/Ireland
I can attest to the all round womanliness of Faberge, she is truly a girly (she's also a hippy mind, this may add to the confusion).
You are delightfully girly faberge.
Love is the law.
veteran
1,459 posts
Location: Dublin, Ireland
thank you aidan 
* wonders if anyone notices how she's dressed up the post with lots of pink fluffy girly stuff
i'd still like to see this photo that lightning thought was me as a man.......
My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely
505 posts
Location: cambs england
i got called that by my "friends" for ages just cos i flourished my arms to describe metaphors and imagery (in english, not literary conv *sigh*) and cos when i hear music with a catching beat, i click my fingers, shake my finger, wiggle my shoulders and butt and tap my foot-cant see how thats camp at all...
in state of metamorphosis
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Oh gawd...we have another Alice now.
Not that it's a bad thing, mind you.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
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