Virtual Reality and dreams...

Have you ever had one of those dreams where you feel so powerful, happy and hopeful, that when you wake up you either try and force yourself to go back to sleep so you can experience more of it or you get up feeling over the moon. Those dreams where you’re given powerful abilities (my favourite), where you are an important figure that everyone looks to, a celebrity or whatever you want! Honestly speaking, I tend to live in my imagination. A place I feel safe to explore, powerful enough to fight in and open to creating more. ‘My own world.’ An escape. A rope that allows me to climb out of reality, even if it is for a few seconds so I can experience happiness on my own terms. It’s hard enough to describe our dreams to people or even paint a picture of what we see when we enter the vast dimension of our imagination. The most expansive and technical source that science has come to know. Yet, now we have stepped further in to actually manipulating technology into creating our own virtual reality. Allowing us to warp into our imagination or a ‘different world’ to which the user has created. We can in fact allow ourselves to fall into avatar bodies, so we may freely roam a different universe entirely without having to worry about any physical harm travelling from this fictional world into our own reality. Providing a sense of understanding of how it would feel to live a different life.
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Virtual reality to the untrained would seem to have popped out of thin air - similar to genie’s ‘unforeseen’ presence in Aladdin, yet if we widened our scope (unintended joke) we would begin to realise that this highly innovative device was actually designed through the development of the first ‘virtual reality’ known as the stereoscope. “In 1838 Charles Wheatstone’s research demonstrated that the brain processes the different two-dimensional images from each eye into a single object of three dimensions.” (1) Therefore, his genius invention was created to enhance our experience of the vast landscape murals displayed in museums. It provided us an insight to the whole other dimension to our own, even if in such a small scale.
Such a light weight contraption, similar to a pair of goggles that if we put on. We are transported to another reality.  Who would want a turn in actually experiencing their imagination or a morphed reality with all their senses intact. When we are in our imagination, our mind tends to wander as we are merely a vessel that is experiencing the reality before us. Yet now we have full control, not just 50% (not accurate) of our bodily functions. We are actually aware of what is happening, and it really does test on what we would do if we were actually put into that situation.
So that's all for now…
Keep dreaming and reaching your goals xxx
Tamz

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