I pay 70€ for an hour and this excludes the travel expenses to the big city (6 hours forth & back). But it's grounding regarding two reasons:

a) you know what it's like - reading a study about psychedelics and taking them are two different pairs of shoes. The same applies to floating.
b) you may overthink your investment building your own. Either delaying it or speeding it up. The second experience curbed my enthusiasm.

Not that I'd like to have my own. But I doubt the cost/benefit ratio. A kick-ass massage chair in a quiet room is probably as effective as a float tank. Maybe add a mind machine to the bill and the balance sheet is still in favor of the chair (my subjective n=2 view).

I only have a handful of floats under my belt, but IME the one at the tail end of an acid trip I had was the most profound. However, I can imagine if I had done a 4 hour float sober, it could easily be on par with it.

Thanks to Rising Spirit for that report and all who contributed.

Great Read!!

I suppose Im quite lucky as there is a float tank near me that does 10 hours for €150. And then you can have an hour or an hour and a half etc, whatever you like.

Im gonna try this soon on shrooms - Can't wait! Although I think I'll start with a fairly low/medium dose of psilocybin as I'm already quite sensitive in that Floating state. :-)

John C Lilly's books are great - Especially his autobiography "The Scientist"


Also Michael Hutchinson's The Book of Floating; Exploring the Private Sea is really good too.