Locked in a Sensory Deprivation Tank

we each got locked inside a sensory. deprivation tank for an hour let's talk. about that good mythical morning yay we. are leaving the studio to take a sensory. deprivation adventure. okay I'll trip now you know we live in. Los Angeles there's lots of weird stuff. that happens here we heard about these. things called sensory deprivation tanks. the idea that you get into this.

completely lightless soundproof chamber. that's filled with water that you're. floating in a box you experience no. sensations they started doing this back. in the 50s there was a guy named John. Lilly I think was his name and he was. experiencing this this sensory. deprivation and seeing what would happen. and he started having hallucinations he. said.he him he made contact with beings. from other planets he went to other. dimensions a bit kind of a crazy feeling. people use it for meditation and. relaxation like an alternative medicine. thing now they're fully paying money to.

do this they float on their backs but. you it feels like you're floating. weightlessly is what they say right so. we decided why don't we go and find out. what this is all about maybe we'll come. in contact with someone from another. plant or maybe we'll just have a great. relaxing time so we've documented the. process let's begin the field trip now. here it is it doesn't look like this is. look like a shop. it looks like a home I wanted to be a. strip mall I was expecting a cryogenic. chamber to be at a strip mall well it's.

somewhere in his house so I'm till we're. supposed to meet edy in the backyard hey. hey I'm a link Rhett hey yeah should we. prepare to evolve it's up to you see. that's the whole point of floating. floating is about doing nothing you have. to make the choice of whether or not you. want to do that because otherwise it's. just a boring nothing okay but you want. it to be a exciting nothing is this is.

your house yes it is okay it's pretty. you got a Christmas ornament over here. when you come out of nothing it's here. for you to join the world in a place. where you can enjoy life and color and. be with your friends and express. yourself but what you're saying is that. this is nothing there we'll have to. experience nothing you have to. understand at the moment that you try to. define nothing you filled it with. something can we see this nothing let's.

let's check out yeah let's take you to. chamber is it in a dungeon kind of. situation no but we can arrange it. Nassau use the tank for astronaut. pre-flight space training whoa whoa yeah. what how deep is it it's a void it's. about 80 25 feet deep it's this little. hole all the way down here are you. joking David no I meant no no K is 10.

inches I'm shining the light flash on I. still can't see anything I couldn't even. see that yeah what'd you think it was. gonna be like I thought it I he told me. I was 25 feet now believed it like I. couldn't see anything it's just. blackness the tank it does nothing. really it does nothing but it does. nothing really well I do want you to go. first because if you don't make it then. I'm probably not going in. yes simple no we're all going in the. arrest room now well what happens where.

you're gonna start okay this is where. your end. so rest right you're gonna get telling. naked and you're gonna put on like a. robe row and then you're gonna you're. gonna get in the chamber yeah and I know. we're gonna say goodbye farewell voix. nice knowing ya and we're gonna shut the. lid that's the process yeah looking for. consciousness in the brain is like. looking inside a radio for the announcer. the word listen contains the same. letters as the word silent did you write.

down no ready you look like you just. came out of the tank robes a little. small. we're not you ready to get in the. chamber yeah and there's listen there's. nothing under this room except me. haha let's do it okay all right wrap are. you yeah what's that noise that's the. ocean waves back. the water sloshing around yeah you got.

the earplugs in yeah I'm gonna make. contact right I have preached an hour. for instead man I appreciate the times. we've had together and I wish you the. best I can't hear anything you're saying. got your plugs in I love you like a. brother yes okay great I'll see you on. the flip side we'll open it for you okay. it'll be okay don't worry. [Music].

there's nothing better than doing. nothing.

okay it's been approximately 60 minutes. since Red's been in the cryogenic. chamber is that what it's called. no that's freezing him to death we're. gonna get him out now and hopefully he's. still of one mind you're alive dude you. okay Rhett come out come out dude.

Rhett snap out of it dude for real you. all right. what happened what was it should I do it. what was it like should I do it. are you okay do what. he's in the process of reprocessing yep.

so seriously I should have I should do. this yeah I mean do you have any. last-second advice I just feel like you. should take the same expectations that I. took in the earplugs are the hardest. part okay I've got my earplugs in okay. I'll see you in about an hour okay bye. it's getting dark it's getting dark in. here this is supposed to be totally dark.

I mean it's pitch black head it's. supposed to be dark. that's pretty cool ed.

you. [Music]. [Laughter].

welcome yeah oh man man you want to come. down to the to the table and we can. debrief yeah. well I'm actually gonna brief meaning.

I'm gonna put my briefs on okay welcome. the laughter like coming out of the. chamber was authentic was out there. oh I mean he's like me I knew that I. wasn't like putting on I don't think I. went to sleep for long but I was I was. definitely doesn't often like jerk thing. would happen it you jerk - it's all. phases really phases of people being.

presented to me know people I don't know. people that weren't real people people. that look like they were drawn to minute. just got two-dimensional people like it. was just so relaxing to me at first I. felt like there was a disorientation. that I imagined was like being in space. like I was Sandra Bullock identify more.

with George Clooney. I was totally Sandra Bullock okay just. totally lost and these robes are nice. and if the fruit tray was very nice. touch in the ornament. well that was quite an experience of. nothing yeah. but it was really something yeah and we.

do want to thank ed for having us over. and for showing us the ropes and thank. you for liking and commenting on this. episode it also support the show by. signing up for a hassle free mobile. phone experience would use rhett and. Link king.com to get a twenty five. dollar credit you know what time it is. hello i'm derek from oklahoma it's time. to spin the wheel of mythicality. yeah if you're in the Southern. California area and you would like to. experience nothing check Ed's website.

out at I float space.com is set up an. appointment it's worth it i flow. space.com nothing is awesome flick. through the end of this video to get our. candid reactions and processing of our. experience a lot of details good. mythical more the sixty Seconds link is. rets marionette so does that mean that. who's the puppeteer and who's that which. ones I think the marionette is the man. oh you want to be the puppet thank you. alright alright.

legs this is not nearly as cool as I. thought it would be it's kind of got a. mind of his own we kind of looked like. two Meredith two puppeteers is there a. puppet down there well your eyes open. when you saw the faces that you're. making up about huh I'm not making. anything up they would come from the. side and they would settle in front of.

me and then they would move on.