Experience Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality may be experienced in one of two ways:
- Imagining a future goal as if it were already achieved.
- Imagining a situation, either created by you or a pleasant memory from your past, that is associated with good feelings.
In my experience, Virtual Reality works best when you use the second method for one reason: it can be difficult to think purely about a future goal without also bringing to your attention that you have not achieved it; your Virtual Reality experience is weakened by the intrusion of reality.
The steps below are those that work best for me. Try them for yourself and then modify the process to suit your own style.
- Spend a few moments deciding what the subject for Virtual Reality will be.
- Close your eyes.
- Begin to create the scene in your mind's eye. If you are a visual person then picture the details. If you are an auditory person then tell yourself the story. If you are a kinesthetic (feelings) person then concentrate on the feelings that the subject evokes for you.
- Enhance your Virtual Reality with questions: Who is there with you? What time of day is it? What can you hear? What do you see?
- Experiment: Make colors more vivid, or soften the focus of the image; amplify sounds, or mute them and experience the calmness in silence; intensify feelings; imagine yourself laughing or smiling—whatever you feel is right to make the Virtual Reality experience more intense, thereby making your good feelings even more fulfilling.
- Bask in the Virtual Reality you have created. When the feelings are as strong as they can possibly be get out before reality intrudes and weakens the experience. Whether the Virtual Reality experience lasts 2 seconds or 20 minutes is not important; what is important is that your experience of Virtual Reality is pure—i.e. uncontaminated by what you perceive as "real".
