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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Jennifer Wong

My first time in a float tank: ‘the only part of me I was sure still existed was my head’

Jennifer Wong in a float tank with her eyes closed as blue light illuminates the water
‘Quickly I felt like I weighed nothing’: Jennifer Wong in the tank. Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian

An hour sounds like a long time to float.

As a first-time float tank user with a love of statistics, I was across all the major numbers before dipping a single toe in the water. I knew, for example, that my toe would go into a double bed-sized pool filled with 400kg of Epsom salts and 1,000 litres of water.

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