Here’s What Happened During My First Float Tank Session

Sensory deprivation float tanks have always intrigued me. When I say “always,” I mean for the past year or two because I only just discovered they were a thing. For my birthday last year, my sister gifted me a float tank session at Samana Float Center and I finally experienced it last weekend. And let me tell you, it was an experience.

How does a float tank work?

Of course, I didn’t know what to expect so I researched floating before I went to the float center. Floating in a float tank with Epsom salt means you’re lying on your back, floating in massively saturated water.

The difference between just your regular ol’ floating and a float tank session is that you’re in a cabin or pod while floating in about 11 inches of body-temperature water, with the option for no lights and no sounds — complete sensory deprivation.

What a float tank is supposed to help with

This is what intrigued me about float tanks. I wanted to see if floating would help me with Depression, Anxiety, and Migraine because supposedly it does. I’m always thinking to myself how badly I want to just sleep for two and a half days straight or I just want some extended rest or a break from reality. To get away from it all, frankly.