Joe Rogan Floats

**booner** · 11-16-2007, 05:03 PM

I caught Joe Rogan on Opie & Antny on the way home tonight...very interesting stuff. He was describing this "floating" business and it sounds unreal. He has this tank at his house that allows you to achieve complete sensory deprivation. It is a tank filled with water/salt mix that is a crazy amount of salt so you float. It's at 94 degrees or something, which is the same temp as your skin, so you can't tell that your in anything. It closes so you can't hear anything, and is pitch black. He said your mind goes into this altered state and basically it's the best psychedelic experience you could ever have..and that's doing it sober. He does it on shrooms sometimes and stoned the rest of the time. I'm sure a bunch of people know about this, but I'm fascinated.

**rideit** · 11-16-2007, 05:30 PM

SD was all the rage way back when.
See 'Altered States'.
decent B flick.

**Cliff Huckable** · 11-16-2007, 05:35 PM

I've done it - very worthwhile.
I've recently thought about getting my own tank - damn, I felt like a nut writing that.

**bio-smear** · 11-16-2007, 06:20 PM

I'm sensory deprived enough as it is. Would this help or enhance a person's anxiety? Or just make you saltier?

**skiHOG** · 11-16-2007, 06:28 PM

"let me tell ya something about me, joe rogan, that you might not know.......i smoke rocks."

**Adolf Allerbush** · 11-16-2007, 06:32 PM

Originally Posted by booner

It is a tank filled with water/salt mix that is a crazy amount of salt so you float.

The Dead Sea...believe it

**Tippster** · 11-16-2007, 06:54 PM

You float in seawater.

**booner** · 11-16-2007, 07:02 PM

Originally Posted by Tippster

You float in seawater.

..no way

**Odin** · 11-16-2007, 07:05 PM

..no weigh

**runethechamp** · 11-16-2007, 07:41 PM

Something like this was described in a Tom Clancy novel as a torture instrument.

**Sensisnow** · 11-16-2007, 08:05 PM

Originally Posted by runethechamp

Something like this was described in a Tom Clancy novel as a torture instrument.

One man's pleasure is another man's pain.

Z · 11-16-2007, 09:05 PM

That sounds way cool. I bet it'd rule if you're sore from skiing...

**72Twenty** · 11-16-2007, 09:19 PM

I made a floater today.

**Brock Landers** · 11-17-2007, 02:03 AM

Rogan also chatted on O & A about how aliens came down and taught the Sumerians everything they knew and are the reason humans favor gold. The aliens developed humans to farm gold for the both the protection of their planet and the addition to their atmosphere.

**Benny Profane** · 11-17-2007, 03:06 AM

Michael Jackson was into it way back.

I did it way way back in college as part of a psych experiment. It was cool. I wish I was stoned.

There ya go. MJ and BP in the same post.

**Tunco** · 11-17-2007, 06:16 AM

But will he blend?

**timnormandin** · 11-17-2007, 06:27 AM

Originally Posted by runethechamp

Something like this was described in a Tom Clancy novel as a torture instrument.

Wo Fucking Fat used the tank as an instrument of torture in a Hawaii 5-0 episode. As I recall Steve McGarrett kicked the tank's ass.

**lionelhutz** · 11-17-2007, 10:34 AM

Starting the Korean War the CIA and the KGB both conducted extensive experiments with sensory deprivation torture. Most effective according to the CIA was the use of a white room. The premise was to place a person in a small white room that was totally soundproof and bathed in light and just leave them there. The effects were stunning. The weightless tanks sensory deprivation model was more expensive and not that much more effective.

**willywhit** · 11-17-2007, 10:59 AM

http://forums.joerogan.net/showthrea...ighlight=float
I wanna try it. Funny how "licking toads" is all over the radio, the colorado river toad or whatever. Like joe said, you don't LICK the toad, you gather the excretion and ingest it.
what was the search for float tanks again ? I found one outside boston while listening to the show yesterday.
Joe rocks, if he skiied, he's be a maggot BIGTIME.
google that DMT stuff, pretty crazy
better than gettin high on butt hash

**splat** · 11-17-2007, 11:57 AM

I wanna hear what the guy from Maximum Exposure does for kicks.

**leroy jenkins** · 11-17-2007, 06:32 PM

As an interegation instrument that shit is nuts. I can't even comprehend how easy it is to fuck with someone in one of those if you can keep them drugged, arragne so that they have no idea how they got there. You could even have sounds/voices playing at very low levels, divers in the tank to make sure you never touch the walls or your air hose, you could keep the water temp just cold enough that your skin is semi numb. Then talk to em as if you're god or a dead son or something.

Think about it man, scary shit.

**Cliff Huckable** · 11-17-2007, 08:56 PM

Originally Posted by Z

That sounds way cool. I bet it'd rule if you're sore from skiing...

Wouldn't be of any help, really. But a massage would be very useful.

Originally Posted by leroy jenkins

As an interegation instrument that shit is nuts. I can't even comprehend how easy it is to fuck with someone in one of those if you can keep them drugged, arragne so that they have no idea how they got there. You could even have sounds/voices playing at very low levels, divers in the tank to make sure you never touch the walls or your air hose, you could keep the water temp just cold enough that your skin is semi numb. Then talk to em as if you're god or a dead son or something.

Think about it man, scary shit.

1. Divers? The water and epson salt solution is about 2 feet deep - and there just isn't room for more than one person, despite how it looks from outside.

2. If you push off from one wall it feels as if you never stop moving in the direction you've pushed. In fact, you move a tiny bit and stop. It's cool for relaxation, but if you were trying to torture someone this tank wouldn't do much by itself.

3. Keeping the water cool would work against the idea of depriving your senses of stimulation.

4. Torture is ineffective, as we've all read, so it might be a better idea to just provide these to the troops so they can relax a little.

**Tourette Dude** · 11-17-2007, 09:04 PM

Originally Posted by leroy jenkins

As an interegation instrument that shit is nuts. I can't even comprehend how easy it is to fuck with someone in one of those if you can keep them drugged, arragne so that they have no idea how they got there. You could even have sounds/voices playing at very low levels, divers in the tank to make sure you never touch the walls or your air hose, you could keep the water temp just cold enough that your skin is semi numb. Then talk to em as if you're god or a dead son or something.

Think about it man, scary shit.

And I thought I had way too much time on my hands.

**DharmaBum** · 11-18-2007, 12:44 AM

Originally Posted by timnormandin

Wo Fucking Fat used the tank as an instrument of torture in a Hawaii 5-0 episode. As I recall Steve McGarrett kicked the tank's ass.

I think he was in tears when they got him out, but he pulled it together before the end of show. But he wasn't truly "floating," as he was in a latex suit or something and was strung out spread-eagle style by some wire. Also, he wasn't in a dark room; they had a latex hood over his head and gummed his eyes up with some pasty stuff.

**Cliff Huckable** · 11-18-2007, 02:17 AM

Originally Posted by DharmaBum

I think he was in tears when they got him out, but he pulled it together before the end of show. But he wasn't truly "floating," as he was in a latex suit or something and was strung out spread-eagle style by some wire. Also, he wasn't in a dark room; they had a latex hood over his head and gummed his eyes up with some pasty stuff.

The darkness inside is a big part of the experience (or "non-experience" heh heh). It really relaxes the eyes - most people's eyes are rarely, if ever, bathed in total darkness.
The silence is nice, too.