“Oshin Vartanian of the University of Toronto and Peter Suedfeld of the University of British Columbia report floating in an Epsom salt solution one hour per week for four weeks boosted the technical ability of a group of college music students. This suggests such periods of minimal sensory stimulation can improve performers’ perceptual-motor coordination.”
This starts to show you how floating can increase creativity — in this case with improvisation, as the group that was the subject of the experiment were taking an intermediate level jazz improvisation course. This article contains a lot of references to the supporting papers as well as related experiments. Definitely worth a read.
The more you read these articles, the easier it is to skip past the obligatory paragraphs about what floating is and how it works.
Read the full article on psmag.com.
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