1. The hair is killer 2. A while back (can’t remember when), there was something you were taking half of. Helped with the nervous system of digestion? 🤔 maybe some gel like wafers?
Given the location of the apparatus, is it mostly scanning the frontal lobe? I only ask because, during dreaming and even deeper levels of meditation, the frontal lobe and prefrontal cortex (although active) are not the primary regions of activity. So, I think the data provided might be rather limited in its use. Having said that, those regions do light up more during lucid dreaming because we are activating additional components of consciousness in the dream state, but I still wonder if the resulting data would provide anything that you did not already know, i.e. that extra components of your brain just fired up while you were dreaming. But I fully see the benefit of all the add-on functions and possibilities. I hope you don't mind, Holly, but I read through the comments below. Your mention of the Monroe institute and binaural beats leapt out at me. I almost pointed you towards the Monroe institute a year ago in an earlier conversation around these topics, but I wasn't sure how Robert Monroe's experiences would sit with your faith. You might find his books unsettling, or you might find that they confirm everything you have always felt to be true. I can see the potential for either or both. However, if you do read them, just keep going because his first experiences were very odd indeed. He had to master what was happening. I read those books avidly and used the Monroe method (with binaural beats) for years. I became fairly proficient at the whole "out of body" thing. I think I was less balanced than you, though - insofar as that the woo-woo side of my personality was too dominant, searching for a back door out of reality. You seem to maintain more equilibrium with regard to the practical elements of your life, so I think you could perhaps explore these topics without neglecting the important stuff in the way that I did. Balance is so critical. I don't think we are supposed to shy away from exploring these topics, but neither do I think we should use them as a means of escape from the solid stuff. Somehow, one should enrich the other.
Thank you! I am not quite sure about the frontal lobe. I did find some information here: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7876403/ that might be helpful. I honestly know nothing about Robert Monroe or the Monroe Institute. I just have had one experience doing that type of meditation. But, if there is anything new-agey or if it's related to astral projection or anything 'spiritual', etc. I would not be interested in doing it again. I need to do a lot more research on this, so thank you for bringing it up. I was just viewing it from a scientific perspective - I only read that the music created was intended to help get into certain mental states. I've had a lot of strange experiences in my past and when I was younger, so I now try to be pretty careful.
@@LifeDIY Monroe did develop binaural beats to assist with the "astral projection" techniques that he developed, but I think it's highly unlikely that using them would trigger that experience for you again. Unless you wanted it to happen. Which you clearly don't. People use binaurals all the time for meditation. I think you'll be fine if you like the general effect that they have. And if you started to vibrate/roll/pinwheel, you could simply wake yourself up.
Interesting...thank you for sharing this! I'll look into it more. I only tried it once and just found it to be so relaxing - so much more than the other meditations. :)
@@LifeDIY I agree and it seems to be a bit overlapping. Still, looking into Dr. Emoto's work with water crystalization and sound and other things like how they changed standard American tuning around the 50s and trying myself going back to 444 hrz or 432hrz I can feel a difference. You might look into the Wholetones music collection and the "Key of David" It perplexes me and I know there is something powerful to frequency .. like you however I want to refrain from NEW AGE. The technology of RIFE has always been the same kind of thing to me. I love the Christian Neuriscientist's work of DR Caroline Leaf. To me, it just proves " faith" as the unatangible ( evidence of things not seen ) point of the tangible neurogenesis .
I hope it has helped you with "focusing"...I've had trouble doing that for as long as I can remember. ☺I'm not sure how well I’d sleep with the headband on throughout the night…Did you find it comfortable to sleep with, Holly? I’m curious about the ‘meditation’ side of it…Does it enhance conventional meditation methods like deep breathing, stillness and presence.? As with all things, I guess it's effectiveness is going to be different for everyone…I think “Major Tom” would’ve liked it though.? 😊
Hey Joe! I think I accidentally cut the part of the video out where I was talking about how it feels to wear it overnight. I am normally really sensitive to things, but this band is surprisingly not uncomfortable and I don't have any issues wearing it at night. But, I still would not want to wear it every night though. So to regularly track sleep it's easier to wear an Oura ring or Fitbit. It does help teach and train you to get better at different forms of meditation - through different breathing exercises and other methods. There's so much in the app, that I haven't tried all of the things yet. There are lots of guided lessons, meditations, etc. to train and track progress.
A few questions: 1. Do you think the speakers will be too loud for an adjacent partner during the sleep stories? 2. Can you use the stories with other apps, specifically Audible? Looked like the plus subscription said it could interface with other apps. 3. Has the sleep data lined up with your Oura ring?
Great questions! I think the phone audio might be too loud if someone is sleeping near you, unless they're just used to hearing you play sleep meditations. When the audio cuts out because you've fallen asleep and then later comes back on if you wake up, I don't think that would necessarily wake someone up unless they are super sensitive to noises. The audio fades in so subtly, that it may not be noticed. You can definitely use Audible and track your sleep or meditation with the headband at the same time, with the premium app, as I've done this a bunch of times. I think the sleep data lines up pretty well with the Oura data, except for the deep sleep, where I am seeing some differences. Sometimes the Oura thinks I am asleep when I'm not, so I am not sure sometimes how accurate it is. I just compared a recent night's sleep and the heart rates were the same for the Oura and Muse. The Oura said that I had a lot more deep sleep than the Muse S said. The Oura said: 1 hour 17 minutes and the Muse said 33 minutes. The measurement of the other sleep stages was pretty similar between the two, sometimes off by 10 minutes or so. I think the heart rate stats are more detailed in the Muse. I tend to trust the stats on the Muse more than the Oura, but if I had more devices I could compare these too, that would be helpful!
@@LifeDIY I thought the headband had speakers embedded, but if it's from the phone I would probably have to skip it. Then again I happen to have an eye mask with integral Bluetooth headphones... maybe I can wear all these things at the same time!? Pretty silly though
Have you looked at how it acts during other times when you are awake? Like when you are reading or watching TV or listening to music? I also wonder if using some of those "brain games" (BrainHQ, Luminosity) would affect the alpha waves.
We must think alike. I asked the company a very similar question. I was told that, "alpha waves decrease when we are actively looking at or listening to something. This decrease in alpha power is called “Event-Related Desynchronization” (ERD). Additionally, when biofeedback sessions are short, there's naturally more muscle and eye movement as we settle into our meditated state. That movement causes signal noise, making the APF reading more difficult, which is why we only measure the APF reading with eyes closed." I did record brainwaves when reading in the morning a few weeks ago. I'd have to do it some more in order to get an average alpha peak frequency for it but it doesn't seem to be the best way to gauge the alpha waves. Besides that, I did something new a couple of days ago. In the app they have something called 3d neural soundscapes, which are audio tracks created by the Monroe Institute (binaural beats). I have never done anything like this before and I am totally new to meditation in general. But, I did this 10 minute session and it was the most relaxing, most interesting experience where I felt like I couldn't feel my legs or my hands, I felt like I kept drifting off almost like I was dreaming, etc. And, that one had the biggest impact on the alpha waves for me.
I totally understand that. I think it looks like the free app has a lot of features, but unfortunately it doesn't have the alpha peak frequency on there.
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I love this tech review! Unexpected and interesting. Please do more reviews with whatever gadgets you pick up! ❤
Will do! Thank you. :)
Your hair looks amazing btw!! ❤
Thank you!
If I listen to a podcast in bed it knocks me out immediately, it’s something to quiet my busy mind.
This thing looks exactly like a ninja forehead protector from the anime Naruto
1. The hair is killer
2. A while back (can’t remember when), there was something you were taking half of. Helped with the nervous system of digestion? 🤔 maybe some gel like wafers?
Think that you said it’s something that you could get through online physicians?
Thanks! For #2, I am not sure what this is. Maybe LDN (low dose naltrexone)?
Given the location of the apparatus, is it mostly scanning the frontal lobe? I only ask because, during dreaming and even deeper levels of meditation, the frontal lobe and prefrontal cortex (although active) are not the primary regions of activity. So, I think the data provided might be rather limited in its use.
Having said that, those regions do light up more during lucid dreaming because we are activating additional components of consciousness in the dream state, but I still wonder if the resulting data would provide anything that you did not already know, i.e. that extra components of your brain just fired up while you were dreaming.
But I fully see the benefit of all the add-on functions and possibilities.
I hope you don't mind, Holly, but I read through the comments below. Your mention of the Monroe institute and binaural beats leapt out at me. I almost pointed you towards the Monroe institute a year ago in an earlier conversation around these topics, but I wasn't sure how Robert Monroe's experiences would sit with your faith. You might find his books unsettling, or you might find that they confirm everything you have always felt to be true. I can see the potential for either or both. However, if you do read them, just keep going because his first experiences were very odd indeed. He had to master what was happening.
I read those books avidly and used the Monroe method (with binaural beats) for years. I became fairly proficient at the whole "out of body" thing. I think I was less balanced than you, though - insofar as that the woo-woo side of my personality was too dominant, searching for a back door out of reality. You seem to maintain more equilibrium with regard to the practical elements of your life, so I think you could perhaps explore these topics without neglecting the important stuff in the way that I did.
Balance is so critical. I don't think we are supposed to shy away from exploring these topics, but neither do I think we should use them as a means of escape from the solid stuff. Somehow, one should enrich the other.
Thank you! I am not quite sure about the frontal lobe. I did find some information here: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7876403/ that might be helpful. I honestly know nothing about Robert Monroe or the Monroe Institute. I just have had one experience doing that type of meditation. But, if there is anything new-agey or if it's related to astral projection or anything 'spiritual', etc. I would not be interested in doing it again. I need to do a lot more research on this, so thank you for bringing it up. I was just viewing it from a scientific perspective - I only read that the music created was intended to help get into certain mental states. I've had a lot of strange experiences in my past and when I was younger, so I now try to be pretty careful.
@@LifeDIY Monroe did develop binaural beats to assist with the "astral projection" techniques that he developed, but I think it's highly unlikely that using them would trigger that experience for you again. Unless you wanted it to happen. Which you clearly don't. People use binaurals all the time for meditation.
I think you'll be fine if you like the general effect that they have. And if you started to vibrate/roll/pinwheel, you could simply wake yourself up.
Interesting...thank you for sharing this! I'll look into it more. I only tried it once and just found it to be so relaxing - so much more than the other meditations. :)
@@LifeDIY I agree and it seems to be a bit overlapping. Still, looking into Dr. Emoto's work with water crystalization and sound and other things like how they changed standard American tuning around the 50s and trying myself going back to 444 hrz or 432hrz I can feel a difference. You might look into the Wholetones music collection and the "Key of David" It perplexes me and I know there is something powerful to frequency .. like you however I want to refrain from NEW AGE. The technology of RIFE has always been the same kind of thing to me. I love the Christian Neuriscientist's work of DR Caroline Leaf. To me, it just proves " faith" as the unatangible ( evidence of things not seen ) point of the tangible neurogenesis .
@@sonicaudio777 Yes, there definitely is something powerful to frequency.
I hope it has helped you with "focusing"...I've had trouble doing that for as long as I can remember. ☺I'm not sure how well I’d sleep with the headband on throughout the night…Did you find it comfortable to sleep with, Holly?
I’m curious about the ‘meditation’ side of it…Does it enhance conventional meditation methods like deep breathing, stillness and presence.? As with all things, I guess it's effectiveness is going to be different for everyone…I think “Major Tom” would’ve liked it though.? 😊
Hey Joe! I think I accidentally cut the part of the video out where I was talking about how it feels to wear it overnight. I am normally really sensitive to things, but this band is surprisingly not uncomfortable and I don't have any issues wearing it at night. But, I still would not want to wear it every night though. So to regularly track sleep it's easier to wear an Oura ring or Fitbit. It does help teach and train you to get better at different forms of meditation - through different breathing exercises and other methods. There's so much in the app, that I haven't tried all of the things yet. There are lots of guided lessons, meditations, etc. to train and track progress.
A few questions:
1. Do you think the speakers will be too loud for an adjacent partner during the sleep stories?
2. Can you use the stories with other apps, specifically Audible? Looked like the plus subscription said it could interface with other apps.
3. Has the sleep data lined up with your Oura ring?
Great questions! I think the phone audio might be too loud if someone is sleeping near you, unless they're just used to hearing you play sleep meditations. When the audio cuts out because you've fallen asleep and then later comes back on if you wake up, I don't think that would necessarily wake someone up unless they are super sensitive to noises. The audio fades in so subtly, that it may not be noticed. You can definitely use Audible and track your sleep or meditation with the headband at the same time, with the premium app, as I've done this a bunch of times. I think the sleep data lines up pretty well with the Oura data, except for the deep sleep, where I am seeing some differences. Sometimes the Oura thinks I am asleep when I'm not, so I am not sure sometimes how accurate it is. I just compared a recent night's sleep and the heart rates were the same for the Oura and Muse. The Oura said that I had a lot more deep sleep than the Muse S said. The Oura said: 1 hour 17 minutes and the Muse said 33 minutes. The measurement of the other sleep stages was pretty similar between the two, sometimes off by 10 minutes or so. I think the heart rate stats are more detailed in the Muse. I tend to trust the stats on the Muse more than the Oura, but if I had more devices I could compare these too, that would be helpful!
@@LifeDIY I thought the headband had speakers embedded, but if it's from the phone I would probably have to skip it. Then again I happen to have an eye mask with integral Bluetooth headphones... maybe I can wear all these things at the same time!? Pretty silly though
:) Yeah that would be a lot to wear at once! That would be nice if the sound was built in. I wonder if they'll add that in the future.
Have you looked at how it acts during other times when you are awake? Like when you are reading or watching TV or listening to music? I also wonder if using some of those "brain games" (BrainHQ, Luminosity) would affect the alpha waves.
We must think alike. I asked the company a very similar question. I was told that, "alpha waves decrease when we are actively looking at or listening to something. This decrease in alpha power is called “Event-Related Desynchronization” (ERD). Additionally, when biofeedback sessions are short, there's naturally more muscle and eye movement as we settle into our meditated state. That movement causes signal noise, making the APF reading more difficult, which is why we only measure the APF reading with eyes closed."
I did record brainwaves when reading in the morning a few weeks ago. I'd have to do it some more in order to get an average alpha peak frequency for it but it doesn't seem to be the best way to gauge the alpha waves. Besides that, I did something new a couple of days ago. In the app they have something called 3d neural soundscapes, which are audio tracks created by the Monroe Institute (binaural beats). I have never done anything like this before and I am totally new to meditation in general. But, I did this 10 minute session and it was the most relaxing, most interesting experience where I felt like I couldn't feel my legs or my hands, I felt like I kept drifting off almost like I was dreaming, etc. And, that one had the biggest impact on the alpha waves for me.
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I would buy this if i didn't have to pay a monthly subscription
I totally understand that. I think it looks like the free app has a lot of features, but unfortunately it doesn't have the alpha peak frequency on there.