Close your eyes and imagine yourself floating . . .

. . . floating in the ocean, listening to the waves and swimming with the dolphins . . . just letting go and . . . enjoying . . . the moment of peace, tranquility . . . and deep . . .  deeper . . . deeply . . . relaxing peace.

Now . . . imagine opening your eyes from this relaxing reverie and finding that there are the dolphins in front of you and that the sounds around you are those of the ocean and the waves and the dolphins.

Welcome to the world of Virtual Dolphin Therapy (http://www.virtualdolphintherapy.com) which gives you the feel of swimming and frolicking with the dolphins without the actual dolphins present.

Virtual Dolphin Therapy is a high tech approach to a recent trend for real dolphin therapy in which folks with various problems or setbacks swim with real dolphins as a therapeutic experience which seems to be helping a lot of folks (although there is also a lot of naysaying: for example, Dolphin Therapy a Dangerous Fad (web)).

Virtual Dolphin Therapy provides the experience for folks who can’t get to the ocean to frolic with real dolphins.  Centers are popping up in various locales throughout the United States (Let Your Mind Unwind with Dolphin Therapy (web)).  Now before skeptics dismiss it as a gimmick or a fad . . . which it very well may or may not be . . . the virtual system uses immersive technology that create a relaxing trance state and the whole thing provides a whole lot of benefits similar to a meditative hypnosis session, except with sea sounds and dolphin models and the like.

Actually, if they were to combine the system with some experiential trance processes, the benefits would increase even more . . . but as it is, it looks like folks would indeed get benefit from the experience . . . as long as they enter it with an open mind and let go and flow with the experience.