Chapter 38Martin Thomas woke up. With the blindfold on he couldn't open his eyes. He was falling apart. It felt as if he were left locked in some kind of sensory deprivation tank. He'd heard about these things. They used the tanks as a form of therapy in some hospitals. Patients floated inside a tank filled with body temperature water, and Epsom salt. The person floating was deprived of light and sound. Doctors believed by cutting away external stimulation stress was reduced, and patients entered a deep state of relaxation.
Thomas remembered hearing how short-term treatments inside the dark tanks achieved many of the desired and expected results. Something different happened when the treatments lasted too long, were too frequent, or were forced. Patients in the ladder situation oftentimes
