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From Float Tanks to Silent Retreats: Why Are People Looking for More Extreme Forms of Sensory Deprivation?

Published: June 23, 2016, 7 p.m.

Everywhere you look, people are trying to get away from it all. Sensory deprivation, or \u201cfloat\u201d tanks, are springing up all over the world. Meditation retreats are exploding, and pretty much everyone has a meditation app on their phone (even if they don\u2019t use it much). Google searches for terms like \u201cfloat tank,\u201d \u201csilent retreat,\u201d \u201cmindfulness,\u201d and \u201csensory deprivation\u201d have been trending upward for the last few years. Silence is in.

(This Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Tina Leaman)