Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I tried a sensory-deprivation tank to overcome my claustrophobia. It was uncomfortable at first, but I'd do it again. I learned 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 ...

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.

To the uninitiated and claustrophobic, floating naked (or nearly so) inside a pearl-shaped tank, sealed off from the lights, sights, sounds and smells of the outside world, may sound anything but ...

LONDON — As I lay in the inky blackness, a strange noise began to rise. Scratching, rubbing, alien and unplaceable — the only sound in a cocoon of total silence. Where was it coming from? I darted my ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There is some scientific merit to the relaxing effects of the experience, in which you float in complete silence and darkness for ...

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 ...

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 ...