Of all the music in the world, I never would have guessed that the most beautiful sounds came from within the human body. The sound proof chamber magnified all the sounds within. I could not believe how loud and mysterious my own heart beat and breath sounded. With my ears submerged under the water, my heart beat echoed and spoke. I could hear and feel each breath as it gently vibrated throughout my entire body. Soon clear voices seemed to emerge from the sounds of my own body.

My body has never felt so relaxed and natural. All the stress was sucked out of me through the weightless void of space. At times, I could not even feel my body, I separated from it. Space and time disappeared. I felt like I was floating and twirling all around even though I was lying still on my back. I found the weightless, fluid environment to be much more conformable and natural then that of the normal world. Now, everything my body is in contact with annoys me. I don't want to feel the keys that I am pressing on my fingertips, my feet on the floor or my body in this seat. I want to be free and floating right now.

I saw a constant static, close to what is normally seen in complete darkness or when you close your eyes, although it seemed more intense. I began to see fractal images forming from the static. Some times the static would appear to take the loose form of a shape or a face. I also experienced a state somewhere between a day dream and a dream that was quite interesting, it is described in detail at the end of this writing.

When ever I let myself go, I felt some other kind of a force trying to sift it's way into my consciousness. It felt like a spirit trying to posses my body, trying to speak to me, through me, from within me. If it was from some part of my own consciousness, it was so abstracted from my normal state, that I could not recognize it at all. The force felt very ancient, powerful and alien. At times they spoke quite clearly, I was sure it was trying to say something tangible, although it was of another language. It almost sounded like a constant whispering, moaning or singing.

I was both fascinated and afraid of the voice. It completely captivated me. I tried to maintain my focus so that I could hear it more clearly, in hopes to possibly understand it's message. The more I thought about it, the harder it was to hear. Sometimes it was so clear that it would startle me and make me loose focus. A few times I bumped into the edge of the tank and that would cause me to loose touch with it. It seems that this voice is accessed from an altered state that I was on the verge of weaving in and out of. I must learn to let myself go.

The most powerful feeling I experienced was at one moment when I was able to focus deeply an entity that was trying to communicate with me. It was at a point when my consciousness was free from the distracting thoughts of the mundane world. The voices grew stronger and clearer and I think were in English, although I can't quite remember what they said. As I lost myself in the voices I began to feel them tingle throughout my entire body. It felt like I had pins and needles all over but it was not unconformable. I then began to feel my body sifting, as if through sand. I believe I may have been close to projecting my consciousness outside of my body, if such a thing is possible. This feeling startled me, so naturally I lost focus.

Towards the end of the session I intensely tried to focus on the voices that I heard earlier. I started to hear them again and they started to softly whisper. Suddenly I heard a loud blast of sounds and voices. They were distinctively being head through my physical ears. I thought to myself, what is happening? Did this force just materialize itself, right in front of me? Have I just tapped into something from another world? It made me jump up and quickly enter the physical world of gravity. I then realized that it was the radio being turned on to signal that my session was done.

I didn't realize that I entered such a powerful new world until I stepped back into the normal world. Suddenly I felt all this weight holding me down. My clunky limbs banging into physical space. I felt like being woken up by the piercing sound of an alarm clock in the middle of a wonderful st dream. After I adjusted to the properties of the normal world, I felt completely refreshed. I knew I must own my own flotation tank as soon as possible.

At one point during my session, I experienced a dream like vision. I remember feeling that I was engulfed in a void of fractals. I could see them emerge from beyond the fuzz of nothingness. I felt so comfortable floating inside something so natural and powerful.

It was as if I could navigate my perceptive view independently from my bodiless form. I saw Kirstin, a friend of mine, emerge from the sea of fractals. She was pregnant and her skin was transparent. I could see her from multiple angles, as if I was no longer looking through a lens, such as the human eye. It was one of the most magnificent visions I have ever seen.

Then Kirstin gave birth to a flowing river of fractals. It is so hard to describe what I experienced in words. The fractals just seemed to flow from within her and encompassed her. It was a part of the very same fractals that I was engulfed earlier that evolved from the static. I realized that I was inside her womb. I was reborn through her, through the fractal womb of creation.

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