Not quite a WTF but...work paid for managers to go do a sensory deprivation float experience. They put you in a tank with like a 60% epsom salt solution so you float, buck naked, about 6 inches off the bottom of the tank. The water is the same temperature as your skin so you aren't supposed to feel it. Inside the tank its completely dark and the room its in is sound proof.
And I'm not gonna like....I was kind of disappointed. I've read about total sensory deprivation and that's kind of what I was hoping for. This was sense dep lite. About the only time you really drowned everything out was when your ears went under the water line, but you still get that kind of thrumming effect.
For the first 20? minutes I was kinda bored. Then I relaxed into it and, surprisingly, my mind kind of cleared. Probably about 50 minutes in and I think I was starting to fall sleep. Then the music came on, which I heard through the water, and it was over. Truth be told I was pretty relaxed and peaceful in my mind afterward, but that may as easily be the fact I didn't drink coffee to start the day, for the first time in.....I don't want to think how long.
And it was kind of neat to feel my back side totally suspended in water.
But all in all, it wasn't total sensory deprivation and that's what I was hoping for. I found some benefits but it wasn't that much of an experience. I'm glad work paid for it, but I wouldn't pay $75 to do that for an hour on the reg. I took the whole day off from work as a "me" day and got a massage too, for about the same price, and I'd say a massage beats out that experience 3x.
Also the waiver was funny. "If I defecate/urination/ejaculate in the tank I understand I may be charged up to $1500 to clean the tank and replace the salt." Along with over waivers about psychotic breaks, open wounds, injuring yourself, etc....The things that place has probably seen.