How I learned to lucid dream when I float. - My floats tend to be very visual in nature. Sometimes I am overcome with waves of emotions, other times I am able to enter into a lucid dreamstate and explore the vastness of my mindscape and sometimes my mind just rants, raves and yells at itself. I’ve been obsessed with sensory deprivation tanks for about a decade now.
Throughout my time in university, I was lucky enough to have amazing professors who allowed me to research them as my theses, which greatly added to my theoretical knowledge of floating. Until Float House Vancouver opened, I was only able to float sporadically, once or twice a year and more often than not, I would enhance this experience with psychedelic substances, going for extended lengths of time, inducing intense and personalized Sacred Ecstatic Experiences full of religious imagery. Now that I float on a more regular basis, I have learned how to include it as a constant practice and have seen how it has changed many aspects of my life. Floating and Meditation. Richard Bonk: Floatation Tank and Consciousness. Floatation Tank and Consciousness Altered States: from Fiction to Fact: Introducing the Alternate Waking States Induction Method Richard Bonk M.Ed.
Although REST has been the subject of a multitude of research studies and has been shown to be useful in clinical applications, much of the public's awareness of the floatation experience stems from the movie Altered States. And, it is often in the hope of producing unique, stimulating and consciousness altering states that many people decide to float. For many individuals, floating becomes a "done that," once in a lifetime experience when they emerge from the Epsom salt waters relaxed though certainly not significantly "altered. " However, many regular floaters do experience heightened states of awareness and unusual mental phenomena. In an effort to examine these unique states in a controlled setting it was important to develop a technique in which these ephemeral states could be reliably and regularly facilitated.
Following then, is. Richard Bonk - Portland Float Conference 2012 (UNEDITED) Search Results. Lucid Dreaming and Meditation at FLOAT - Flotation Center and Art Gallery. Richard Bonk: Floatation Tank and Consciousness.