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flotation tank
(redirected from Isolation tank)

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flotation tank
a once-popular, but now little used, technique of suspending a horse in a harness in a tank filled with water for long periods while a limb bone fracture healed; still used for brief periods of several days for lesser injuries.


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In Orgone Accumulator, 1999, the artist paid homage to Reich's Orgone Box (a mystical isolation tank designed to infuse its inhabitant with sexual energy) and in Analogue Fountain, 1999, to Ian Sommerville and Brion Gysin's druglessly psychoactive Dreamachine (a simple device that filters light from an ordinary bulb to create a flickering pattern with the power, when observed through closed eyelids, to induce a visionary state).
Stokes last Monday, might want to spend some time in the isolation tank.
Here's one for the folks who like to keep a Nextel in their isolation tank.
 
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