The float tank and the new dimension
"The flotation tank is a window, a portal, into another part of the universe — one which is within us always." Sometimes you come out not quite all the way back.
Sometimes at the end of a float you feel halfway gone, a little fuzzy — like part of you is still in that other place, drifting. You loosely follow your body down the hall and out into the lounge. Your senses are pleasantly sharp, but you're not altogether there to interpret them. The tea pulls you in like an anchor: peppermint on your tongue, the hot liquid heavy. You realise you'd forgotten you were even a person, and not some transcendental thing floating through space and time.
A thought experiment
So here's a game I like to play. What if, in the tank, you're briefly dislodged from this reality — the bonds that hold you down loosened, like a plug pulled from a switchboard? And what if, as you tune back in, holding your tea in the lounge, you begin to suspect it isn't quite the same reality you left an hour ago? A little slower. A little more relaxed. Sounds smoother, smiles wider.
As the world solidifies around you, will yourself to materialise in the dimension where the float had its best effect.
Choose your reality
Quantum multiverse theory, via the many-worlds interpretation, leads to the popular notion that the reality we inhabit isn't the only one. I'm not asking you to take that literally. I'm asking you to play. As the sounds sharpen and your thoughts return, will yourself to land in the dimension where things are brighter and happier, where you're more positive and even the people around you seem to be — not because they can sense your "energy," nothing woo-woo like that, but simply because that's how this dimension happens to work.
Sink into the silky water, take a bullet train through spacetime, and come out somewhere your problems matter a little less.
Because the truth is your problems were, and always will be, exactly as important as you decide they are. The float doesn't shrink them. It just hands you the dial, for a moment, and lets you choose. Play the game once and tell me it doesn't make your day a little brighter.
The portal's in Grafton, in the middle of Auckland. Step through whenever you like — and if it's your first time, the intro offer is the easiest door.