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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."
the flashing-glasses-beeping-headphones combo machines
Those are for LUCID DREAMING. In laymans terms thats a dream in which u are aware its a dream and you take control. Go to google and search for lucid dreaming. You'll find more information than you want to know about.
'The participants showed dramatic improvement over placebo participants who listened to someone else's brain music instead of their own.
"For the placebo group, the improvement was only about 15 percent as compared to 75 to 85 percent for the experimental group. So it's a highly significant statistical difference,"'
In other words, you need to listen to your own brainwaves, not some random noise or someone else's rhythms.
Brainwave 'manipulation' (or stimulation) is actually most interresting technology...
See EEG Spectrum International for 'related' articles. Neurofeedback is less 'intrusive' method than those sound/light devices that are sold for 'relaxation' or other purposes.
www.eegspectrum.com
or some neurofeedback applications
It is also possible to manipulate brainwaves with TMS (Transcranial magnetic stimulation).. see for example an article about religious experiences and TMS ;-)
In search of God.Anonymous BrainWave
i do know about lucid dreaming, even though i very rarely manage to have one. the lucid dreaming devices are usually different in that they are timed to bring you back to consciousness in your sleep at a predefenide time.
THERE ARE devices that are solely for the brainwave stimulation approach, NOT for lucid dreaming (although they could be used for that purpose)