The People Tanks

I've had an experience on several trips that I'd like to share and see if anyone else has been there.

The People Tanks are a very odd thing experience, and alarming to an extent. I've been there a couple times, each on at least 3.5g, and I've experienced it in two distinct sets of sensation. There is the sensation of being in two places at once, which is weird, yet common. Most of the time isn't that what a trip is? The simultaneous experience of the inner world and the outer world? Two places at once. When I've experienced what I'm calling The People Tanks, I've been sitting quietly in the outer world, yet feeling like I was also in this other place, which felt very real, at the same time.

When blind-folded, the CEV's I would get were of a small, dark room with a faint, possibly green lighting, and around this room are what would appear to be coffins, except I don't think they contained dead people. It reminded me more of the people tanks in the Matrix, though not a grand or as organized. It was more like someone piled a bunch of those tanks in a storage closet somewhere. What's more, I had the feeling that I was in one of these tanks and I was looking around this room at others.

When not blind-folded, I retained the physical feeling of being in one of these tanks. At the same time I felt that I was both sitting on the couch minding my own business. In the outer world, I was free to go about my business as always, yet in the inner world I felt trapped, thrashing around in a tank trying to get free. The combined sensation felt like I was literally coming out of my skin, like the two works were diverging and in a sense tearing me apart. I felt paralyzed in this inner world. This was accompanied by a sensation that if I didn't maintain a grasp on my outer world self, that self would disappear, and all that would be left is my inner self, which would "wake up" inside this tank, in this small dark room, unable to move.

The overall impression is that of being a psychological prisoner. I don't know if this is something other people have gotten a sense of, but I'll go ahead and coin a phrase here and call it being "mind-cuffed". I guess it's the sense of being trapped spiritually. If mushrooms give us access to another world, it seems to me that someone or something else may be trying to control that other world, and in fact perhaps some of us are actually captives in this other world, I guess I would be one of them. That's something to meditate on right there huh? Whatever you want to call it, there is an inner, hyper-dimension that we access while dreaming, tripping, etc. At the same time we're experiencing this outer dimension, this common, consensus reality. While we're all (I for one) trying to figure out what's going on here, and explore this inner hyper-dimension, is seems maybe someone or something has been hard at work there already, trying to take it over and control it.

I've yet to come across anyone else mentioning a similar experience, so I don't know yet if it is a fantasy I created for myself or something more. Has anyone else out there seen or felt the People Tanks?