Unconventional Therapies - Visual Imagery (Waking Dream Therapy)

In Healing Visualizations: Creating Health Through Imagery, Geral Epstein explains the technique of visual imagery, also known as waking dream therapy. Below are some of the points that will contribute to my research document:

• Visual imagery is a mode of non-logical thinking that aims to make contact with the "inner subjective reality".
  
• Used for mental illness and other forms of ailments.
• Consists of an extensive range of exercises that involves the individual closing their eyes and imagining a scene or experience. This visualization experience aids in healing through the sensation felt by the body as a response.
• Based on the premise that humans are equally capable of working with visual language as they are with written language and the images that we perceive with our mind are so powerful that they cause physiological changes.

This can be applied to creating a therapeutic piece of multimedia seeing as it displays the potential for images to change the way a person feels. One such piece could possibly instruct the viewer to close their eyes and imagine a scene that is specifically therapeutic to their illness, and when combined with sound, the experience of the visualization might be enhanced, thus increasing the effectiveness of the treatment.