Dopamine Nation

Float blog My phone, my family, and Dopamine Nation Too much pleasure is its own pain. I found this book while I was trying to break my own phone habit. A Stanford addiction psychiatrist explains why the easy rewards all around us leave us more anxious and less satisfied, and why the way back starts […]

How clean is it?

Float blog How clean is a float tank, really? A germ walks into a float tank. It’s the question every first-time floater asks, and it’s a fair one. Instead of handing you our cleaning checklist, we’re going to follow one germ from the moment it hitches a ride into the tank. Spoiler: it has a […]

186 times a day

Float blog The habit nobody calls an addiction 186 times a day. That’s how often the average American checks their phone. We talk about alcohol, weed and meth as addictions. We rarely talk about the one in our pocket. Here’s what the research says it’s doing to your mind, your body, and the part of […]

Floating for Inflammation

Float blog My 30-day float challenge 6.4 to 2.0 in four weeks. Note; this is an update from a blog I wrote in July 2025. Since then I did a 30 day float challenge and learned more about how inflammation works with floating so an update was needed. That’s my hs-CRP, the blood marker doctors […]

Aquahenosis

Float blog New float research, August 2026 Scientists just named the float feeling. In a randomized trial, an hour in a float pool did something an hour in a zero-gravity chair couldn’t. It dissolved the line between body and water. The people who felt that most were the ones whose mood lifted most. Researchers call […]

Floating While Pregnant

Float blog Floating while pregnant Can I float while pregnant? You’re carrying extra weight on your back, your hips and your feet, all day, every day. For one hour in a float room, you aren’t. Here’s what that does, what the research says, and how to do it safely. The short answer: for most pregnancies, […]

Seasonal Affective Disorder

Float blog When the light leaves Boston Why winter gets heavy Every November the clocks fall back, the sun sets before most of us leave work, and a lot of people start feeling flat, tired and not quite themselves. There’s a name for that, a reason it happens, and things you can do about it. […]

This Is Weird. It’s Literally Floating on Water.

Float blog A made-up story we watch happen every week “This is weird. It’s literally floating on water.” That’s what Mary thought the first time a friend told her about floating. Eight weeks later she’d tell you something very different. This is what happens in between. First, the honest part: Mary isn’t real. I made […]

Better Games, Better Grades: The Edge Teen Athletes Aren’t Using

For parents & coaches of high school athletes Steph Curry doesn’t float to recover. He floats to see the game before it happens. Every parent is looking for the edge — the better season, the better transcript, the better shot at the right school. The tool some of the best athletes on the planet use […]

After Dark Floats

The Unhour Late-night floats on the nights that matter, if you’re the kind of person who keeps track of which nights matter. Your browser doesn’t support video. Watch it here. Yes, that’s me floating. Yes, I edited it with AI. I really wanted a moon in there, and unlike Gru I could not lasso it […]