Floating is a fairly interesting thing that seems to have been slowly ticking up in popularity lately; it's been fairly niche for a while but I've seen a few articles popping up about it.

If you haven't heard of it, Wikipedia has some details on it, of course. The basic idea is that you lay down and float in an isolated, pitch-black pool. The air and water are kept at about body temperature, and the water's loaded with epsom salt to make it dense enough to float on with zero effort. The idea is that, with no sound, light, or feeling, your brain enters a meditative state.

I've done this once; there's a local place that's two blocks away from my workplace aptly named Go Float Yourself. For a while I thought it was more of a dessert place (you know... root beer floats ). I'd spent time researching the concept for a while, and a year or two later actually found out what it was. It's a little expensive — it was about $60 for an hour — but it was interesting and very relaxing.

The benefits are usually touted as relaxation, stress reduction, and easing pain; of those I can definitely say the first two are true, at least. Some people claim to experience entirely altered states of consciousness, but the effects vary wildly by person.

The question this time is, of course, if you've gone floating; and if you have, what your experiences were.


_{(Technically I made the last question yesterday by server time, so I'm still in the green for the daily series.)}

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