Healing Minds With Virtual Reality Summary

Virtually remembering the unearthly smell of burning garbage, diesel fuel, and the reside from the numerous rounds of ammunition fired comes to awaken the subconscious mind of former Infantry Officer of the Marine Corps named Tommy Furlong. In the meantime, the distinct whiff following the explosion of a Molotov cocktail suddenly takes Furlong back to a time where the past is lived once again. In reference to Christina Couch’s article titled, Healing Minds with Virtual Reality, explains how the immediate smell of the Molotov cocktail engulfed makes the former Infantry Officer relive certain experiences when he served abroad in Afghanistan in 2010. As Furlong sits comfortably in an office, Couch (2015) points that one of the sense of smell is one of the beginning stages of how the former Infantry Officer is mentally transported to a different time and place (para.
Primarily, based on what Furlong experienced during his time in Afghanistan (para. 1). Moreover, aside from noticing the distinct smells from his experience, the sense of sight becomes an eye-opener as Furlong finds himself in the passenger’s seat in a military Humvee, while a digitized driver steadily drives past Afghan roughed hills (Couch, 2015, para. 1). Simultaneously, Furlong’s feet feels the rumbling vibration from a pad beneath his feet (Due to the military Humvee driving amongst Afghans ‘bumpy hills) (Couch, 2015, n.p.). After remembering distinct smells of burning garbage, to the explosion of Molotov cocktails, and remembering the military Humvee drifting amongst Afghan hills, what does Furlong have to say about reliving his experience in Afghanistan? According to Couch (2015), Furlong observes, “It brings back muscle memory… You get right back into that mode. You put on the headphones and start hearing that radio chatter and it just comes right back to you” (para.