Cocooning
Author
Michael Pharaoh
Imagine you’re at your favourite beach, relaxing under a beaming sun, feeling the hot sand under your towel, listening to the waves hitting the shore, the distant sounds of people enjoying themselves, the fresh air, the health benefits, the memories. Now imagine you’re on a distant planet where beaches don’t exist, and someone got wind of what a “beach” is, but everyone on that planet lives underground. “So yeah basically you go there and get heaps of Vitamin D, there’s blue all around you and tiny grains of rocks for you to lay on called sand.”You don’t have to go to space to experience these uncanny valley “beaches”, they’re here on earth, and they’re called Vitamin D rooms, Sun therapy rooms or we’re so confident that we can replicate the experience of going to a beach but indoors that we’ve committed to this literal idea instead of making something that’s still relaxing but doesn’t make you feel like you’re on the set of The Scorpion King rooms.