Sensory Deprivation Tanks: Floatation therapy for stress, anxiety and phobias

Having heard about sensory deprivation tanks around 10 years ago, during a time in which they were reported to elicit certain hallucinatory effects, I became interested and intended to try it myself. At the time the industry was extremely small, with only one venue in Melbourne offering the treatment, which was a small office with a single tank. The idea of trying out the tank was more a novelty than anything serious, hence the reason why it took me 10 years to eventually try a flotation tank!

Fast forward to today, a large number of research papers have been …read more