Float Tanks

It is a pleasant activity to think about our time on earth, its beauty and its surprising adventures, hopes and wishes, desires and passions…warming up ones heart, like a sweet symbiosis, an engagement to life.

Other times, your thinking is being such a weight that all you would want to, was to switch it off. All of a sudden you get overwhelmed with emotion, leading to the darker characters that inhabit us, our own inner demons, trying to tumble us down. I was imagining some kind of thinking-reset-machine you could use to appease them. Something like the pensine of Dumbledore in Harry Potter but enrolled into an overall process. 

I am very thankful to the person who gave, one late night in a smoky karaoke bar in Brooklyn, a name to my concept:
Float Tanks. The idea: the possibility to put oneself on standby and get thoughts sorted out. The execution: A 48-hour-thoughts-resting-escape of the everyday turning machine. In these Float Tanks, time would be suspended; it would be a place where you don’t get to experience your being on earth. A black whole without movement or consciousness, and you would draw new energy of the possibility to pause and not turn along with the world around you. 

Developing further on, I thought, Float Tanks should be sophisticated and modern, which is to say digital. So maybe they could also analyze and calculate decisions and choices one needs to make…

Even though I realize the improbability to have it executed, I’m holding onto this delightful idea, the possibility to leave the world for a short while and come back, peaceful.