Today's Miscellany

A few links to science papers/links:
http://www.northwest-neurofeedback.com/articles.html

I was minding my own business when my buddy Steph sent me a ref to this woman who is into Paleo eating (in short: lowsugar wholefoods) AND neurofeedback. What a great find! How many of us can there be? Except she knows what she's talking about and I don't, but let's not be picky. I'm learning. (And I'm just not bringing up the recent pesto pasta-breakdown ok.)

I have finished reading everything on the Transparent Corp public site, private members site, and their NP2 documentation (which is considerable), as well as everything I can find on the MindPlace public site, and the Procyon documentation. Excuse me while I rinse off my brain now, that is too much too fast. Unfortunately nearly all of this is "proprietary" documentation. It's even put into files you cannot copy from just to make it even more complicated to take notes in a text file. So it's not easy for me to condense what I am learning into my blog for my friends since I didn't even have a way to summarize it for myself as I went along. Grrr.

I'm having a frustration moment about a couple things. Minor trivia but still.

Procyon's product document just throws in as a tiny note like oh-by-the-way that whatever audio it is playing is automatically 'modulated by the video settings'. Well that set me back. What is the point of deliberately customizing audio and video--often to be pointedly different--if the video then tromps all over the audio? I want to do specific experimentation and hypnotic anchoring and controlling these things separately is important as a result. Maybe it isn't always. Maybe it's just if you do the audio there, not if you import it. I hope.

Update 6/19 ungodly hour AM: you can 'patch through' your own audio and it won't affect that. It only affects (as you choose) tones you create yourself in the editor.

I have a ton of vastly more useful and specific info that I will work on dredging out of myself over the next week.

PJ

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DIY Neuro Tech Brain Wave Stuff

updated 6/19/09 adding link to DIY LED goggles:
http://www.hackcanada.com/homegrown/wetware/brainwave/gallery/index.html

(Seriously, I imagine this guy building sci-fi goggles in the basement and trying to explain it all to his wife... hilarious!)

It turns out that you can build your own braintech stuff. And you can buy some basic stuff and then build it. For example the NP2 (transparentcorp.com) is allegedly the best and most flexible audio+video program creator (and comes with lots of stuff and you can edit that stuff too) ($60 US).

You can build or buy LED or high-output LED goggles. (You don't have to buy an expensive brain-mind machine.) You can use an MP3 player or computer for sound.

If you only want audio, BWGEN is shareware and programs that, google it.

There used to be this great audio freq tech program Audicity but Adobe bought it and renamed it Audition, and now it costs $200 instead of $30. Still a good program, but . . .

Audiostrobe (audiostrobe.com) is products and media and company name and technology name, also an industry standard plus used as a generality not just a brand (the way 'bandaid' and 'jello' tend to be) which makes it damn confusing when you're new to the subject. That format basically means audio and video are encoded 'together' so that goggles will work as well as whatever headphone things are going on. They have a 'decoder' that will take regular music (say, the Beatles) and put photic (video pulsing) to it based on the audio. They sell LED goggles, various brain-mind machines, and custom MP3s with 'audiostrobe sessions' on them.

The word 'sessions' is the primary one used to mean 'a program you listen to' which is a/v/a+v. Funny since Remote Viewing is my last 13 years of life where 'sessions' is the primary word too.

Some output file formats such as from NP2, are simply done in WAV format you can convert to MP3 on your own. The audio effectiveness is not affected by this but video really depends on the quality so the highest encoding bitrate (320) should be used if you want to use it in an 'audiostrobe fashion' with goggles of some kind.

PJ

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