I had an experience yesterday. My parents had bought me a gift voucher for a magnesium float pod session. It is a pod you lay in with ears plugged and lights out so total sensory deprivation. It is supposed to put you into a highly meditate state as well as be beneficial for the muscles.
I spent the entire time bouncing off the walls and overall I didn't think very highly of it. But it made me think that it was a vanilla persons way of entering a light subspace. All it did for me was make me feel a little sickly and wish I had rather spent my time tied up in rope and blindfolded.
I was telling this to my friends and I realized how much of a snobby bdsm dickhead I sounded like. Now don't get me wrong i have both a vanilla personality as well as a kink side. But they run together not separately. And I'm starting to hate the term "vanilla" basically because I feel like an idiot..... can we become so self involved that we loose some of the wonder and joy in non bdsm things..... have I become a kinky snob lol