On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > At 07:40 PM 11/24/02 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: > >Bullshit. I (and several others) built a tank nearly ten years ago. > >No big deal. Note that psychoactives (at least if you have any > experience > >with them) don't modify the experience a great deal either. Certainly > not > >to upset anyone this much, this fast. > > > >The biggest threat is wrinkled skin and bacterial infections. > > > >You've been watching way too many movies, you won't morph into a > proto-ape > >or glow like lave either ;) > > You were using the wrong psychoactives then. > Indeed.
Don't think I turned into an ape, but for about 30hrs (reconstructed) I'm not sure what I was. PS, anything less than a full cycle in a tank (16 hrs at least) is a bad place from whence to judge. There were tanks and tanks. I used the one at LSU back in the seventies. It was completely illegal. The tank was properly ventilated, completely mechanically isolated (not easy to accomplish), anechoic and of course dark to the point there was no visible light, even to to the meters. There was some energy being devoted to the concept that folks could set up shop with these things, kinda like gyms. Go to the strip mall and reboot yer head in a hour kinda deal. Didn't really take off. I fasted for a day before entering the tank, I dosed with 300 mikes of LSD, cooked in the LSU labs by buddy chem students in 100 mike doses taken an hour apart, last dose before stepping in. I was already peaking badly when they shut the door. It was a baaaad weekend, I'll tell ya. Had a friend, aquaintence really, who did the tank at Ga Tech. Yes, there was one. Done on the original Doc John Lilly concept of full imersion with a free flow full face mask with a blacked out face plate. He stayed in for about 22 hours, had a hard time talking coherently about it. He was our inspiration to do our set of experiments. I bailed on the project after my time in.
