I Tried Five VR Meditation Apps, and One Was Clearly the Best ...Middle East

There are way more meditation apps available in virtual reality than you'd think, and I am their target demographic. I want to make progress down the Noble Eightfold Path, and/or experience the reduction in stress and other benefits that come from meditation. The problem is, I find meditation tedious, and I suspect I get the same relaxation benefits from sitting in a dark room and listening to Hawkwind. Maybe VR can fix that. I checked out a bunch of VR meditation apps to see whether they were helpful, and rated each on a scale from 1 (wandering ego trapped in the prison of the self) to 5 (liberation from the cycle of suffering and rebirth).

But there's a strong obstacle between the VR meditation applications I've seen and most traditional forms of meditation: visuals. For instance, if you're starting transcendental meditation, step 2 (right after "sit in a comfortable position") is "close your eyes." But Reality doesn't Virtual with your eyes closed. So according to Thibodeau, visualization/manifestation meditations might be better suited to the virtual world:

I asked Thibodeau to visualize a VR meditation app that used that kind of practice, and she said: "There'd have to be a visual that basically helps you get into that elevated state, right? So I don't know, maybe they could show you like winning the lottery, and then it prompts you to be like, 'how does this make you feel? Get into that state.'"

Leaving aside the efficacy of meditating for manifestation, it does seem better suited to the virtual world than traditional meditation, but it also seems like virtual reality (and video games) already put people in a state where they are fully engrossed in an experience they presumably want to manifest: Most video games are power fantasies. Whether that power manifests in the real world is a bigger question.

Tripp

Best for: psychedelic seekers who are afraid to drop real acid

Enlighten-o-meter score: 2.5 out of 5

Meditate

Credit: Stephen Johnson - Guided Meditation VR

Best for: budget-conscious newbs

Enlighten-o-meter score: 2 out of 5

Liminal

Best for: gamers who want to kind of relax

If you've ever tried to meditate and didn't know if you were breathing from your belly or not, this app will give you the answer! You "play" Flowborne VR by resting a controller on your gut. It tracks how far your belly expands and contracts as you breathe. Deeper breaths from the diaphragm make you move faster through semi-abstract landscapes. In other words, this app gives you a way to track how well you're breathing, and a reason to concentrate on it. Finally I can be the best at breathing! Personally, I don't like thinking about my breathing because it feels like another damn thing i have to worry about, but if breathwork is your thing, and you want to get better at it, this app would do it.

Enlighten-o-meter score: 3 out of 5

Pillow

Best for: chill weirdos and insomniacs

Enlighten-o-meter score: 4 out of 5

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