Inducing targeted brain states utilizing merged reality systems

As virtual reality becomes more accessible and the technology becomes greatly improved to immerse the individual in real time, there will be an impact upon the human brain and its direct functioning over states of mind. For as long as humans have noted that the brain responds to lights and sounds to aid or alter moods and mind states, technology has been used in one way or another to induce some desirable mood. This paper investigates how virtual technology could be used to forward this idea.