Dec '25 • General discussion
A Deprivation Tank
When I was just a kid I would make my own sensory deprivation tank in my bathtub. I would turn the lights off in the bathroom, close the curtain of the shower, then lay under the water fully submerged except for just enough of my nostrils exposed to keep breathing. I began doing this in the early 90s as a way to disconnect from the world, as if I had any reason to be disconnecting quite like that when I was that young. Maybe 4 or 5, was when I started doing this activity and I did it regularly until I was found doing it, when one of my siblings needed the bathroom… I was 13 and embarrassed to have been in such a meditative state while someone was looking at me. I quit doing it then, but looking back I realize I was preparing myself for disconnecting in a world that requires us to be so connected. It’s good to give our mind a break. It’s good to hear no noise and to see no light, to just let ourselves be in the moment with our thoughts. It’s wonderful we get to live in a world where connection is so readily available everywhere but sometimes we just need a minute. I don’t have a bathtub now but I sometimes wish that I did so I could do some disconnecting at home on any given day.
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