I declared August 2021 Adventure-a-Day Month (yes, I can do that)! Every day of August, I embarked on some type of adventure, 31 days, 31 adventures, some big, some small, some physical, some mental. It’s my way of making adventure part of everyday life. I write about each adventure below.
Day 18: Wednesday, August 18
Floating/sense deprivation therapy
You’re lying motionless in a tank filled with salted water such that you floating, suspended and touching nothing. It’s pitch black so you can’t see even your hand held in front of your face. You’re wearing ear plugs obscuring the slightest sound. This is float therapy, also known as sense deprivation. Floating removes every external distraction, leaving you alone inside your head and, presumably, able to relax and destress. It definitely has that effect, as it forces a kind of meditation, a total relaxation that eventually may lull you into an infantile nap, carefree and lethargic. At first, floating is slightly disconcerting as you are disrobed, alone and out of familiar context. But little by little during the hour or hour and a half in which you recline in the tank, you let go of concerns and allow the total absorption of literal senselessness to enfold your consciousness. 
Adventure: Float therapy, first time.
Distance traveled: One mile, to Eastworks, Easthampton.
Challenges: Remaining still, letting go, being present.
Risks: Very little risk, but potential for slight fear of dark and disorientation.
Difficulty scale 1-10: 1.5
Highlights: Total relaxation, meditation, euphoric feeling.