I recently had a chance to complete a quest in the virtual world Second Life. In this quest, we walked through a hospital while hearing the “voices” in our head providing us “guidance”. It was an interesting experience and the goal was to teach students about the hallucinations that people with schizophrenia experience. This would be a good activity to use in a health or psychology class for college students to learn about this topic in a safe simulation in the form of a virtual world or virtual reality experience. My reflection on the experience is below.

Case study on a virtual reality version of this experience: http://learningandteaching-navitas.com/the-psychosis-experience-virtual-reality-psychology-education/

The quest I experienced was created by Amanda Hatherly, professor at Santa Fe Community College. http://w2.sfcc.edu/files/inside/Inside_SFCC_SUM2015_WEB.pdf

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