What does "floating" represent in the novel, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights?

Floating, as Mr Geronimo and then many other people experience during the strangenesses, represents disillusionment. It carries with it the associations of losing contact with reality and one’s life, sometimes the fear of appearing to hold oneself superior too. Simultaneously, it is the cruel hobby of a levitation-obsessive. And, since the victims don’t know what caused their levitation, it incites crisis, often an existential one as victims begin to question all they believe.