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Last December, I closed my eyes and tried to visualise a potoo. This tropical bird has a “round, kind of pill-shaped head”, my mental imagery coach described to me, and is covered with brown feathers.

In the recreation room at Eskaton Village in Carmichael, Bonnie Dale, one of the residents, is trying on a virtual reality (VR) headset. Colorful exercise balls of different sizes line one wall, and ...