Joe Rogan Experience - The Float Tank

Here you use flotation tanks. Yeah, I have one in my basement. You have one, and do you use it regularly? Oh yeah, yeah. I've been using them for, uh, I bought my house in 2003. So for more than 10 years, I've had this in my basement. Please describe the thing to me. You get into this- You've never done it? I've never done it. Oh my goodness. I want to do it. Where are you staying while you're out here? I'm staying in Malibu with friends. Oh, perfect. I'll get you in if you want to go tomorrow. Okay. There's a place in Venice called the Float Lab. All right. It's the best place in the country. And you just go in there and float? Yes. It's amazing. How long do you need anything? I'd like to do two hours. Okay. If I have two hours. But if I only have an hour, I'll set a timer, and I'll put a timer outside of the, uh, the box so I can hear it when it goes off. Okay. But, uh, that's my old one. You see it up there. That's my, that's a Samadhi tank that I had. The one that I have now, though, is built by the Float Lab, which is far more complicated. It's a really immense, huge, seven feet tall, nine feet wide, or nine foot long, six foot wide. It's huge. Right. It's like a, it looks like a walk-in freezer. Okay. And it has oxygen pumped into it. When you're in it, you're in water, right? Yes. And there's salt water that keeps you suspended. I can't believe you haven't done this, Graham Handcar. I haven't done it, no. We're going to change your life tomorrow. It's amazing. It's, it's like a psychedelic experience except completely natural, completely safe, and you can end it anytime you want. Right. Like, that's my new tank. But when you, when you climb into that thing, the, the water is set to the same temperature as the surface of your skin. And there's a thousand pounds of salt in that water. It used to be 800 in my smaller tank. This one's a thousand. And so you can't sink. Exactly. It's about 11 inches deep. So even if you did sink and you can't drown, you're fine. And you're floating like half of your body is above the water. And as you lie there, you're in total silence, total darkness. Your ears are actually underwater. You close the lid on this thing and you don't hear a thing. You don't see a thing. You have no input and you don't feel the water because the water is the same temperature as your skin. So you're floating completely weightless. It's really great for your body. It feels great because you, you alleviate all the pressures of gravity and stress. You feel your muscles relaxing and unwinding. And for me, the way I describe it is the first 20 minutes or so, it seems like a seminar on my life. It gets me to start examining various aspects of life. You start to go through like a life review. Well, in the absence of sensory input, you know, even while we're having this conversation, it's very quiet in here, but we're having to deal with the fact that there's computers and screens, there's a ceiling, your butt is feeling the chair. All those things are gone in that tank. In the tank, it's just your mind. It's the only place ever, the only environment on earth where your mind is untethered from your body. It's an amazing, amazing experience and completely safe, completely natural, completely beneficial, completely refreshing. It's amazing. Even if you're not into the psychedelic aspect of it, you just want to relax. It's incredible. I love it. It should be something that everyone has in their home. It would benefit so many people in so many ways. And you don't feel a thing. You feel like you're flying through space because your body is completely weightless. It's the weirdest feeling ever, but it's amazing. You've convinced me. Oh, I can't believe you haven't done it. But you're such a psychedelic adventure. I would have thought that would have been a part of your daily life. We've got to set you up with one in England, man. We've got to send one over there and send a crash over. Have them set you up in your basement or something. I wouldn't live in a house if I didn't have space for one. Right. Literally. It's that important to you. To me, it's massive. Anytime I've got something I'm thinking about or trying to work on or new material, ideas, I go through jiu-jitsu moves in there. I go through scenarios. I'll visually spar. Okay. Yeah, it's amazing. You don't get an opportunity to have the mind at its full resource capacity other than in that tank. Yeah. In this world, constantly bombarded by sensation of all kinds. We're torn apart. I can't wait to talk to you. I have to get out.