re: Any of y'all into mind machines?

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You haven't gotten around to watching that cave video yet, have you?

Yep, watched it.

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I've been on this board for 13 years. I tried that approach for the first several. I got no different responses than I get today.

I've long since given up hope of teaching anybody anything. I'm here to laugh and make fun of a concentrated level of ignorance I've never seen before in my lifetime.

I am entertained. And it's cheaper than going to the zoo to watch those animals.

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I've been on this board for 13 years. I tried that approach for the first several. I got no different responses than I get today.



You may be able to sell this to some, but I've been here as long as you.

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Yeah, O.K. I'm lying. I have so much to gain by lying to somebody on an anonymous message board.

You're making my point. It doesn't matter what I say, you're going to believe whatever fits your agenda.

it's the TRUTH. And to me I feel the same way... what a joke!


TUBA is the computational genius of our era, hands down.

LINK

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The Science Behind Brain.fm
We are combining music with auditory neuroscience
to produce an innovative non-invasive digital therapy application for consumers.
We believe music is a vastly underestimated tool for therapy and mental performance.
With brain.fm we embark on changing the world's perception of music.

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LINK

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Does altering brainwaves really mean we are altering mental state?

It is now admitted that neuronal oscillations play an important role in brain
operations5 . Cognition – the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses – results from interactions among functionally specialized but widely distributed brain regions, organized as sets of neuronal networks. Cognitive processes can be associated with specific neuronal networks (such as the dorsal attention network, the default mode network, the alertness network, and so on*); and the multiple brain regions composing a neuronal network communicate through neuronal oscillations. Thus, neuronal oscillations correspond to the critical ‘middle ground’ linking single-neuron activity to behavior. The emerging new field of ‘neuronal oscillations’ has created an interdisciplinary platform that cuts across psychophysics, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, biophysics, computational modeling, physics, mathematics, and philosophy. And specific patterns of neuronal oscillations now start to be seen as fingerprints of cognitive processes1 1 . Mental states can thus be altered via neuronal oscillations, but such an alteration has to reach a critical level to be consciously perceived. Indeed, neuronal oscillations are in a constantly fluctuating, while we have a subjective impression of mental stability and continuity. * See also: www.brain.fm/pdfs/ResearchLibrary.pdf

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Prior cultures recognized this:

-meditation pervasive in Eastern cultures
-music woven into culture / religion. The construction of cathedrals amplified this effect in their design (sound/acoustics)


It is easy to appreciate the fact that it is easy to get lost in the great music. We have all experienced this (at home with good headphones or at a concert with amplified collective conciousness). Examples include:

aggression experienced with strong percussion = military drum beat, music at sporting event

tranquility experienced with symphonic/ soft music = singing lullabies to children


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Meditation
Shift diet to paleo/primal/ketogenic. Add MCT (medium chain triglyceride oil)
Get 7 to 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep per night. Rising with the sun. Get sun during the day. Avoid electronics / bright/blue light exposure roughly 2 hours prior to bed.

Use tech above as an adjunct.

Report back how you think/feel on a day to day basis (all the time)

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I don't want to rain on your parade, but the placebo effect isn't exclusive to medication. But hey if you think some mind machine is helping then good for you

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The idea--calming effect--isn't entirely without merit, at least theoretically.

You know how certain smells can trigger old memories, say for instance smelling homemade apple pie reminds you of childhood times spent at your grandmothers that you enjoyed. So, that triggers a small release of dopamine, making you feel good.

Certain songs can take you back to good times, having the same effect.

No reason to think other types of stimuli cannot affect some type of involuntary-response.

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what for, you've been spot on so far, so what's with this?

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examine

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Blue light, bad night

Ummm … light is not a nutrient, right? Well, no, but this was put first for a reason. It’s easy to get lost in the minutia of nutrients and supplements and forget that you’re reading nutrition research (or, let’s just be real for a second, that you’re wasting time on Facebook) late at night. And that’s bad. Here’s why, in a nutshell:

The delightful and oh-so-Deutsche word for a circadian rhythm factor is zeitgeber. If you spend your workday indoors but watch TV and browse the web at night, work mostly alone during the day but socialize at night, and sit virtually motionless during the day but exercise at night, you’re effectively flipping three of the most important zeitgebers on their heads. So rather than investigating sleep supplements, let’s look into zeitgebers first.

The king of all zeitgebers is blue light. This light wavelength suppresses your body’s melatonin production. During the day, if you look up at the sky, you’ll see a free and powerful source of blue light: the sun. If you see the sun’s glorious light during the day, and shut off lights at night, hormones that vary throughout the day (such as cortisol and melatonin) are more likely to vary in the way you’d want them to.

Figure: Amber glasses reduce melatonin suppression from bright light exposure

A randomized trial from January of 2015 found that people using iPads at night had a harder time falling asleep, experienced less REM sleep, and felt less refreshed the next morning. Shortly afterward, iPhones and Amazon tablets started being built with blue-light reduction capability. Now, the Examine.com research staff had long used freely available computer programs (such as f.lux) to reduce blue light, in addition to testing blue-light-blocking light bulbs and glasses, but the fact that these mammoth companies are taking notice bodes well.

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Natural melatonin production (or regulating factors that prevent it's production) impacts more than just sleep....

whoa, LSUpimp, it's been a long time.


the Nov/Dec. 2003 thing still gets to me, I'm only a Jan 2004 one.

Thx for the detail!

I like this kind of electronic music very much.