Munich's first ever float tanks opened at Münchener Freiheit a couple of months ago. You pay about €1 per minute, sessions usually last 30 or 60 minutes. ...
The tanks are made by FloatAway. They are 2.3m long and 1.45m wide. Inside there are 350 Kilos of medicinal bath salt disolved in 600 liters of water. This high salt concentration enables your body to float with neutral buoyancy - just like weightless floating in the Dead Sea. The water is maintained at skin surface temperature, i.e. 34.8'C. Once the lid is closed it is completely dark and quiet inside. You do have the option to switch on gentle lighting and soothing music but that would defeat the purpose.
The water is not replaced every time. But the high salt concentration ensures sterility. Between runs the water is also filtered and treated with UV light to kill any bacteria left behind by the previous occupant.
The Float Center also offers massage, either full body or just problem areas, for about €30 per half hour.
Sensory deprivation - Munich
Floating therapy also works well along side Rolfing. See: Floating and Rolfing
Float Wellness-Center Feilitzschstrasse 26, Schwabing U-Bahn U3 or U6 to Münchener Freiheit Open daily 10-22hrs Tel. 089 3303 9699 Website: www.float-muc.de
Munich Float Wellness
Reviews:
...the first time in the tank I didn't get any hallucinations, and the second time I didn't get any hallucinations. But... the third time... I figured I'd try anything to get a hallucination, and went into the tank. At some stage of the game I suddenly realized that - it's hard to explain - I'm an inch to one side. In other words, where my breath is going, in and out, in and out, is not centered: My ego is off to one side a little bit, by about an inch.
I thought: "Now where is the ego located? I know everybody thinks that the seat of thinking is in the brain, but how do they know that?"... The Greeks thought the seat of thinking was in the liver, for instance.
...I figured that if I could move my ego an inch to one side, I could move it further. This was the beginning of my hallucinations.
I tried and after a while I got my ego to go down through my neck into the middle of my chest. When a drop of water came down and hit me on the shoulder, I felt it "up there," about where "I" was. Every time a drop came I was startled a little bit, and my ego would jump back up through the neck to the usual place. Then I would have to work my way down again. At first it took a lot of work to go down each time, but gradually it got easier. I was able to get myself all the way down to the loins, to one side, but that was about as far as I could go for quite a while.
It was another time I was in the tank when I decided that if I could move myself to my loins, I should be able to get completely outside of my body. So I was able to "sit to one side." It's hard to explain - I'd move my hands and shake the water, and although I couldn't see them, I knew where they were. But unlike in real life, where the hands are to each side, part way down, they were both to one side! The feeling in my fingers and everything else was exactly the same as normal, only my ego was sitting outside, "observing" all this.
From then on I had hallucinations almost every time... It developed that when I would move my hands I would see them as sort of mechanical things that were going up and down - they weren't flesh; they were mechanical. But I was still able to feel everything. The feelings would be eactly consistent with the motion, but I also had this feeling of "he is that." "I" even got out of the room, ultimately, and wandered about, going some distance to locations where things happened that I had seen earlier another day. Posted by: Richard P. Feynman at November 9, 2004 11:59 AM
Sweetie, Patsy tried this yonks ago. Ended up having all sorts of wierd schoolday dreams. It's VERY mid-90s. Champagne darling? Posted by: Edina at November 9, 2004 01:55 PM
o yea i've heard of that.. it was in one of the dean koontz books i read recently.. put a little girl int here at first just for like an hour but they uold her up to like a week at a time.. needless to say she was really messed up. anyway, i'm clausterphobic so i would never get into one of those things..and i dont really like the dark :P Posted by: Anonymous at November 9, 2004 03:13 PM
The tank is best experienced as it was originally intended with healthy dose of LSD and you'll need much more than 30 min or an hour. 200 micrograms and 6 to 8 hours and you will see God, guaranteed. Double the dose and you will get a guided tour of Heaven and Hell. Highly recommended for all you seekers out there. Posted by: Floater at November 9, 2004 07:57 PM