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Dr John Lilly, a medical practitioner and neuro-psychiatrist, developed floating in the 1950s.
During
his training in psychoanalysis, at NIMH (National Institute of Mental
Health), Dr Lilly commenced experiments with physical isolation. In
neurophysiology there had been a longstanding question of what keeps
the brain going and where are its energy sources? One answer was that
the energy sources are biological and internal and don’t depend upon
the outside environment. It was argued that if you cut off all stimuli
to the brain then it would go to sleep.
Lilly decided to test this hypothesis and with this in mind created an environment which totally isolated an individual from external stimulation. From here he studied the origin of consciousness and its relation to the brain. The first floatation tank evolved.
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