Patent attributes
Improved methods for rehabilitation, transformation, training, and learning are provided for a person as a viewer which enable the viewer to experience a virtual session, comprised of one or more virtual scenarios intended to activate the mirror neuron system, that includes suggestion, hypnosis, hypnotic induction and/or hypnotic suggestion in verbal and/or visual forms, where said suggestion, hypnotic induction and/or hypnotic suggestion may possibly be applied to and/or utilized in relationship with the various components and/or aspects individually and/or collectively that make up a virtual session which are presented in this description of the present invention, which includes one or more virtual scenarios, a virtual character which may be created to be in the likeness of the viewer, where said virtual character and possibly additional virtual characters that are human and/or non-human may be animated to properly perform one or more acts and/or motions and/or movements and possibly express dialog and/or speak and/or otherwise be represented to speak and/or think and/or make sound, where said virtual character made in the likeness of the viewer may be animated to speak and/or otherwise be represented to speak and/or think using the voice of the viewer themselves, that may include other audio, including narrative-based and/or the virtual character(s) expressing verbal hypnotic suggestion(s), hypnotic guidance, hypnotic instruction(s), and/or suggestion(s), guidance, instruction(s), and/or similar, which may be viewed from one or more perspectives and/or one or more points of view, may include one or more virtual environments, locations, special effects, weather, and/or similar, being displayed through video based imagery and/or computer-based imagery, in 2D, 2D stereo, 3D, 3D stereo, and/or more advanced methods such as holography, with the viewer experiencing the virtual scenario through playback and possibly passively, actively, and/or with interactivity using proper apparatus, with the virtual session allowing for data collection, and the viewer experiencing the virtual session alone and/or with assistance, for rehabilitation, transformation, training, and learning.