All operating environments are equipped with quickly accessible peripheral centers, called “immersion pools”, where you may encourage your pet human to engage their experiential and intellectual curiosity. Immersion pools come in many forms, but the simplest is a cylindrical space into which one to five of your pets may enter and become suspended, weightless, in a sea of magnomatter particles. Once in this pool your pet can be immersed in a stream of augmented consciousness data, directly stimulating the brain to produce direct pentasensory experiences or other abstract cognitive routines. Regular neuroscans of your pet human will determine its specific needs and will implement a program accordingly.

Although your pet human is capable of experiencing augmented consciousness states through neurosync peripherals at any time, these centers allow for much longer and fuller immersion in activities, tasks, and experiences fundamental to your pet’s healthy development and expression. It has been shown that operating environments which substitute basic dreampods for immersion pools lead to behaviorally challenged pets who may spend more time in segregation. This unmet need for experiential and intellectual stimulation could create disastrous feedback loops within your human community. (Consult 6.2 - Behavioral issues)

Immersion pools have replaced an obsolete biologic function called “sleep”. After a period of one environmental-day (generally 1/365th of a clock-year, unless your pet is in an operating environment moving at relativistic speeds), your pet human will become tired and its brain will shut out all pentasensory data, replaced by a sequence of psuedosensory data that runs on neural structures in an attempt to balance cognitive dissonances. However, the immersion pool is much more effective at delivering more accurate and productive data than that produced by the limiting circuitry of the human brain. In addition to entering immersion pools during periods of natural fatigue, your pet may enter during times of alertness, thus allowing for a fuller complement of pentasensory experience than can be delivered by the operating environment alone. Healthy pet humans will spend anywhere between one half to two-thirds of their lifetime in the immersion pool.

Since pet humans enjoy variety, a stable operating environment has one immersion pool for every two pet humans. Encourage your pet human to spend time in this region of the operating environment. Should you notice any of your pets avoiding this environment, encourage them  to utilize the immersion pool by using any of the numerous attraction subroutines  to draw them into it. Selection of appropriate subroutines can be facilitated by neuroscans to determine what will appeal to your particular pet.