New York Press
ALTERED STATES REVISITED
Inside the city’s last isolation tank
By Tony Dokoupil
There are obvious virtues to sensory deprivation in a city that kills you one unwanted input at a time, while bombarding your eyes, ears and nose in every direction at once.
Once mainstream enough to spawn a major Hollywood film, and life-changing enough to turn a Village Voice reporter into a guru dedicated to “Exploring the Private Sea” of the mind, sensory deprivation tanks—aka floatation tanks, aka isolation chambers—are very nearly extinct in New York City.
Sam Zeiger’s Blue Light Floatation Co., established in 1985, has ridden the whole waxing-and-then-waning wave, and today remains the last dedicated outlet in a formerly crowded local market. Chelsea’s Blue Light offers New Yorkers a chance to exchange their beeping, blaring, scowling everyday lives for an hour of utter oblivion. All is zilch, while bobbing weightlessly in a sea of therapeutic nothingness.
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