Notes transcribed from recording

After the adjustment of near to zero gravity. And the adjustment of no external extensions to the environment, no sound, no gravity, no wind, no nothing. I sort of… Ok, well a couple days ago some Jehovah Witness came to my house, no lie, and they tried to start up a conversation of the creation of the universe, so that thought was sort of in my head at the time. Well, I had, it felt as if, and like I was the big bang. Like the actual, the initial scientific, theoretical creation of the universe. But it wasn't like an explosion, like some people think of it… it was more of a pulse, that was sort of in tune with my breathing. It was really, really interesting, it started off really small and I could feel my heart beating, it started off like that, and then it went in tune with my breathing. I got larger, a little bit small, larger, a little bit smaller, larger. It felt like, the closest thing would be the big bang theory, how everything started and then it just kept getting bigger and bigger.

It felt as if my body was the particles that were inside of the big bang, my arms and my legs and my feet were actually… My body wasn't comprised of a human body. It felt like I was the actual matter, the physical matter that comprises of the big bang, which is really, really cool. It just felt like I kept getting larger and larger, expanding, expanding… Part of me knew I was still inside the tank, so I was waiting for myself to expand to the actual volume of inside the tank, to hit the sides and the top and the bottom, but it just didn't hit it, it felt like I was getting bigger and bigger. This probably lasted for about half the session.

I had fuzzy feelings rather then images. Like the mind was creating more of an illusion to what was there rather then seeing crystal clear images. It was more feeling then thought.

After that, I think there was a sound or thump upstairs and it drew me out of that, so I started going into other things, like dreaming about different random life events or whatever. At one point my neck started hurting, so I put my hands up and crossed them behind my head. I felt like I needed more support on my neck. I lost all the illusion because I was feeling myself. If you keep your hands in that position the blood circulation gets cut off and my arms totally fell a sleep. At that point, I no longer felt my fingers and my arms…

I started drifting back into nothingness. I started to move a little in the tank, arching my back, back and forth, from left to right. Like a snake… It felt as if the curvature of my body was completing all the way around in a circle and I was waiting for my head to touch my toes. It felt like I was curving that much. I kept going back and forth since it was an interesting feeling. I would do it really slow, I knew I was probably moving my back very little but the sensation, I felt as if my body was actually going to complete a circle.

There is a lot of theories that everything is a cycle or a circle and that was still in my head, the creation of the universe, everything's a cycle, I was a part of that. I was becoming a circle.

Overall I feel great and I can't wait to get back in it again, that was really interesting. It seems like it builds on whatever thoughts were in my head. Not necessarily at that moment but maybe subconsciously for the past week.

My heartbeat was faint, my breathing took over.

Additional Notes:

Zack has done meditation in the past. He hurt his back a while ago, the flotation session was like therapy, he said it felt good on his back…

Later he added the following comment:

It felt like my big toe on my right foot, it kept feeling like it was touching the wall. So then I would see if I could push off of the wall but there would be nothing there.

See Zack's Second Flotation Session

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