| Professor Thomas Taylor of Texas A & M recently conducted a fascinating test of the effects of floating on learning and thinking. Taylor had tested subject groups to see which were visualizers and which were verbalizers, and concluded; "when the same learning records are analyzed on the basis of persons who are basically visualizers verses those who are primarily conceptualizers ( non-visual thinkers), a greater degree of learning occurred in the visual then in the non-visual group."
Taylor also noted that the float group appeared to visualize better than the non-float group, and produced significantly higher amounts of theta waves, which are known to be associated with strong mental imagery.
The Book Of Floating by Michael Hutchison
"It (the isolation tank) was quite useful, in the sense that you could get into a dream state, and I think that did allow... different thoughts and pictures to come through. And I tend to write a lot of times from pictures."
Peter Gabriel
"One of my jobs is to take data and feed it into a computer to construct 3D models of the earth's surface. In the blackness of the float tank, I utilize the computer-like qualities of the brain to program data into myself and can actually see the resulting models in my visual cortex." In short, he hallucinates models which he'll later construct:
"I'm just at the beginning stages, but the float tank has amazing potential for use by artists, by designers, by people like myself who do technical work, by anyone, really, who works with his brain. Of course, my colleagues don't quite understand what I'm doing."
Houston City Magazine 1979
"I'm going to get a pedicure and spend time in a sensory deprivation tank contemplating what I can do to kill the Y2K bug."
Seth Green (quoted in Cosmo Magazine 1999)
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