I went back to the swamp on Sunday, May 13. I returned to the site of my May 5 mud play. This time, however, I took the lead weight and my breathing tube. I had a plan to sink in a ball tie, with the help of the heavy weight, pulling me down by my genitals. The plan went okay, until I wriggled myself into the mud up to my ears and I could go no deeper. The weight, in the thick mud, wasn’t enough to pull me under, and I couldn’t do any more to pull myself under, while tied in a ball. I had to “escape” before I could go deeper, so I worked my wrists free and continued my sink with my arms free. Even with my arms freed, it was still really hard to get the weight to continue down. The mud there got thicker as you went deeper. I did get to spend some time, completely under the mud with the breathing tube, and held down by the weight attached to my genitals.
The weighted ball tie was pretty good, but I wanted to try something else, so wriggled out of the thick mud and tied my genitals to an overhead tree limb, so I could get inverted in the mud with a rope tugging at my genitals for motivation. That was pretty intense, since I was, essentially, hanging upside down, with my head and shoulders deep under the mud and a rope from my genitals preventing me from righting myself. It was good.
