{"id":13230,"date":"2024-02-28T23:10:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T23:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13230"},"modified":"2024-04-22T23:16:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T23:16:07","slug":"but-what-if-you-turn-into-a-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/02\/28\/but-what-if-you-turn-into-a-monkey\/","title":{"rendered":"But what if you turn into a monkey?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/wellness\/2024\/feb\/07\/does-float-therapy-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">If you yearn for the void, try floating naked in a dark tank<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/madeleine-aggeler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Madeleine Aggeler<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Altered States | Tank | Warner Bros. Entertainment\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V9awOgeWDBA?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Depending on who you ask, spending an hour floating naked in a soundproof, lightproof tank with only your own thoughts for company sounds either like a soothing respite from everyday life, or a nightmarish punishment devised by a uniquely devious and vengeful deity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Personally, I yearn for the void. So I signed up for a session in a float tank. These used to be called sensory deprivation tanks, but the term has fallen out of favor because your senses aren\u2019t fully deprived; the terms of art are flotation therapy or flotation Rest (restricted environmental stimulation therapy).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isolation tanks were first developed in the 1950s by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/10\/07\/us\/john-c-lilly-dies-at-86-led-study-of-communication-with-dolphins.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John C Lilly<\/a>, a neuroscientist who used them to enhance his psychedelic experiences. They didn\u2019t become commercially available until the 1970s but their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1981\/11\/21\/business\/relaxation-tanks-a-market-develops.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">popularity quickly grew<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/wellness\/2024\/feb\/07\/does-float-therapy-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Guardian If you yearn for the void, try floating naked in a dark tank by Madeleine Aggeler Depending on who you ask, spending an hour floating naked in a soundproof, lightproof tank with only your own thoughts for company sounds either like a soothing respite from everyday life, or a nightmarish punishment devised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}