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Scientists Create Lullabies From Brain Waves
Lord Custos writes "From ABC News: Your Brain Waves are Better than Sleeping Pills! Everyone has a song in them...literally. And you can use it to put yourself to sleep. Canadian scientists have discovered that deep sleep can be induced in insomniacs by copying the insomniacs brainwaves, turning it into 'music',
and then playing this 'audio transcription' of their own sleep brainwave pattern back to them."
As a long suffering insomniac (which is why I'm up at 3:15am instead of snoozing) I have GOT to get me one of these.
Unless of course they're using it for some vile twisted Twilight Zone plot to convert all us insomniacs to soldier for some evil army. Of course one advantage is that we'd all tend to fall asleep at the worst possible times.
Will it still put me to sleep if I play it really, really loud?
I wonder if it sounds anything like cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp. Personally, i think Seti@home executable sounds the coolest, followed by any NTFS filesystem. Dont ask me why, but sometimes it sounds like trance/techno music, even has the right BPM.
I hope mine doesn't sound anything like Brittany Spears!
I wonder if I can
/proc/kcore | /dev/dsp
cat
to put my computer to sleep.
I can just imagine it now - some company would go into buisness taking EEG recordings of celebrities and offering them for sale. Just imagine how many people pay to listen to the brainwaves Bill Gates, or Marylin Mason, Calista Flockhart (food bad, thin good, food bad, thin good), etc etc. I guess it all depends on your taste.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
What better place than here to find insomniacs?
Cowboy Neal is obviously no exception to the rule:
"Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday August 29, @02:15AM"
// file: mice.h
#include "frickin_lasers.h"
Can we scan the enemy's brainwaves and put him to sleep? Can we scan the brainwaves of foreign dignitaries while they visit the White House, put them to sleep and steal their pocket change and state secrets while they're out cold? How long will it take to weaponize these lullabies? Can the weapon be mounted on a satellite or disguised as a pack of cigarettes?
Dammit, you should have figured these things out before announcing this. We need to know and we need to know now.
Uhm. I am able to fall asleep while laying on the floor with two kids jumping over my back, having Tarzan with volume jumping in the TV and yelling, and my wife jumping all over the house because she's trying to speak to me, and I hear nothing. Compare didgeridoo to that, and it's a miracle. :)
Hell, the Audigy already has every OTHER feature imaginable. "Now includes Sleep Blaster(TM) Technology via a FireWire-enabled aluminum foil hat!"
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Siggy, siggy, siggy, can't you see? Sometimes your puns just irritate me.
Well, Sir, I was just referring to a musical instrument, which based on minimal empirical research indicated similar kind of effect as the results of the research work partially covered in the article you referred.
Some addictions aren't bad anyways.
I'm addicted to breathing... if I stop breathing for even a minute, my body goes through severe withdrawl. But someone told me that for all physical addictions, it's out of your system after 3 days and then you'll just need to cope with the mental addiction.
One of these days I'll hold my breath for 3 days, and finally kick this air addiction that's ruling my life and hindering my dream of becoming a merman.
... my brains would probably just produce a heap of white noise, as I can't make up my mind.
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"The chances of a demonic possession spreading are remote -- relax."
Of course, wouldn't it really suck if the commonality happened to be the sound for "om".
The reverse sound of terror being "mo" or "moo". All that time . . . cows are trying to terrorize us. Man, makes me feel less guilty about eating burgers.