flotation tank

British  

noun

1. an enclosed ventilated tank filled with a saline solution at body temperature, in which a person floats in darkness in order to relax or meditate

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Example Sentences

McDermott’s childhood memories are matched by naïvely excited music; the flotation tank, by a soporific étude; the simulated coma, by music so shapeless yet alluring that it could have been written by Satie.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2023

And I got a vision, floating in the flotation tank, of me and Philip onstage together.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2023

At Lift, the flotation tank looks like a cross between a sleek car top carrier and a huge bidet.

From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2016

Zeiger has operated a flotation tank service in New York since 1985, and runs the only commercial flotation business that has survived since the last time flotation was in fashion.

From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2016

Developed in the 1950s, the original goal of the flotation tank was to explore and experiment with consciousness, and the activity has had new age undertones ever since.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2016