- [Woman] Evolution Float Pod
for your flotation experience.
- [Chris] Someone is talking to me!
- [Woman] We will begin momentarily.
- They're talking to me!
- [Woman] Find a comfortable position.
- I gotta get in here.
(upbeat, bouncy music)
I'm Chris Beier.
- And I'm Kevin Ryan.
- And today we are testing,
- [Both] Sensory Deprivation.
- What are we gonna do here?
- We are gonna float.
- What does that mean?
- [Kevin] So, there's Sensory Deprivation Tanks
in the rooms right over there.
- [Chris] That's right.
- [Kevin] There's gonna be, nothing to see, nothing to hear,
nothing to smell, and we're gonna touch water,
but it's gonna feel like we're touching nothing,
because it's perfectly body temperature.
They say it can ease anxiety, insomnia,
symptoms of depression, PTSD.
- Wow. - It can help you relax.
- [Chris] This is quite a place.
- [Kevin] Yeah.
- This is called Lift,
and they have a few tanks here, they have a lot of salt.
This is, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine, 10,11,12,13,14,
15,16,17,18,19,
20 bags of salt.
Epsom Salt.
And this is for one tank.
In order to float you gotta have salt in these tanks,
- [Kevin] Uh-huh.
- and I guess the idea is,
brilliant minds go into these tanks to problem solve.
- Yeah, and that's
why we're going in there. - Here are two more
brilliant minds ready to go problem solve in these tanks.
- Every problem Inc. has ever had,
will be solved in 60 minutes from now.
- We're gonna bring ourselves into a state of Theta,
- Yeah. - Thinking?
- Consciousness, I think?
- Theta consciousness? - Theta consciousness?
- Where we'll be able to see, woop!
Is this really the Fountain of Youth?
- It could be. - Maybe it is!
- Let's drink from it.
- Welcome to your spaceship!
- Wow. - Thank you.
- Here's your float tank.
So, you're in a pod today.
- She's a good vessel.
- [Gina] You can shower first, body wash, shampoo.
No conditioner.
Push button on the right controls the light,
push button on the left controls the music,
so you are in control.
- Okay.
- [Gina] That's your neck rest.
- That's the neck rest, so you put that under.
- The float halo.
- Okay. Yeah, so you're gonna be
wearing a little halo in there.
- The point is to make us, not to fall asleep,
but to just relax.
- It's not to fall asleep.
It's to get into theta brain wave activity,
which is a deep state of consciousness.
Like a meditative state.
When it ends, you'll hear a little spaceship lady,
she'll come on and say your session's over.
- Is that you?
- No, it's not me. (laughing)
- She's mic'ed into our ear.
- So here's my tank.
Got my shower supplies.
About to strip down,
and jump in this coffin filled with water.
- I'm now going to get butt naked,
and just lie in a shallow pool of water for an hour.
And come back with brilliant insights.
- Now I'm going in.
- I'm getting into the tank.
(upbeat, bouncy music)
(clock ticking)
- Just got out.
There were times when I didn't know if my eyes
were open or closed.
That's how, deprived I was of my senses.
I feel like I have a better sense of the big picture.
Take that at face value.
Goodbye Mr. Spaceship Pod, you were good to me.
- [Kevin] Do you feel relaxed right now?
- I do feel relaxed right now.
I'm trying to bring forth energy
for the sake of your entertainment! (laughing)
- We've lost him. - Why are you not entertained?
- We've got the old Chris back again.
- So I tried to bring in things that were making me anxious,
things that I was stressed about,
things at work that I didn't have a solution to.
- I got in, got out to get the earplugs, got back in,
got out to get the face towel, got back in--
- You got out? (laughing)
- Shut the door on the tank,
and then thought it was too hot, opened the door,
then the lights outside came back on,
then I had to get out and shut the lights again. (laughing)
So it took some adjusting,
but then, (laughing) you adjust everything
to the way you want.
and that's when all the magic happens.
- You were just running around wet and nude. (laughing)
- In this room. - Trying to make
your environment right. (laughing)
- Like a naked monkey in the pitch black, (laughing)
just like feeling out for the walls,
and the sides of the tank.
I wouldn't say I solved anything,
but I no longer feel stressed about those things.
- So here's what we're gonna do now,
we're gonna go back to work,
we're gonna see if work is easier, more pleasant.
- [Kevin] Mhm, more productive.
- [Chris] More productive I guess.
- [Kevin] Yeah, less stressful.
- [Chris] And we're gonna see if it's easier or harder
to go to sleep and what kind of sleep are we getting?
(upbeat, ethereal music)
- Alright, I'm back at work, energy level is pretty good,
I have a busy day, I'm not stressing too much,
let's see how I sleep tonight.
- So, it's four o'clock,
I still feel a nice sense of peace and calm.
I am waiting though, for this peace and calm to wear off,
because I think, inevitably,
this feeling can't last forever.
It's the end of the day, I'm leaving work,
I have no more calm or peace, it's gone,
it's like I used it all up, I have to get back in the tank.
The more you do sensory deprivation,
maybe the better you get at getting into
that theta state of consciousness and keeping the feeling,
having the feeling endure for a longer period of time.
It's the next day, we went through a whole day,
having done sensory deprivation in the morning
to see what the benefits were.
Here's my conclusion.
- Yeah.
- Sensory Deprivation in the tank was pretty boring.
(record player needle scratching)
In fact, there were moments when I was like,
has it been an hour yet?
- The naked part of really what gets me.
- What do you mean?
- It made me feel naked.
I wouldn't say I was like noticeably high energy,
or like efficient.
- No, not high energy.
- Yeah, yeah.
- It was like, I don't know if I was efficient either.
- Uh-huh. - But there was like, a peace.
How did you sleep?
- I slept like a baby.
- So, does that mean that,
that sense of calm didn't wear off
until you woke up this morning?
- It was definitely a well above average night of sleep.
I did not wake up during the night,
I woke up in the same position I fell asleep in.
So I guess if you're an entrepreneur,
and you're a busy founder,
and you're a CEO. - Or just you have a busy
nine-to-five, whatever it is. - You have a busy life.
- You can see this being something
where you work it in maybe, once a week, or once a month,
or maybe more.
- How much is it?
- 65 to 95 bucks.
- Okay.
- The 60 to 100 range for most places,
from what it seems like.
- Would you do it again?
- Yeah, yeah absolutely.
- And pay the 65-70 bucks?
- Yeah, I think it would be worth it,
because I would feel more benefit the second time,
and then that's I think where I would know,
is this really something for me?
- Mm-hmm.
- Would you do it again?
- I would do it again,
when I knew I needed to be in that zone.
We don't recommend a lot of things
on Inc. Tested. - That is true.
- This show is usually Inc. Debunked. (hand hits table)
- Uh-huh.
- But I would suggest trying this at least once.
- Give it a go, you don't know till you try.
- That sense of peace,
(lips kissing)
I'm just gonna work to get back there every day.
- Yeah, oh I pray that you do.
- Regardless, I think we can now say that
Sensory Deprivation has been,
- [Both] Inc. Tested.
- Look at how peaceful that was.
- Very peaceful.
(upbeat, bouncy music)