After trying to implement this homepage with WordPress, I realise that my ideas cannot be implemented with that tool… I am used to apply specific, low-level CSS to finetune the layout, but the plugins are too limited.
Therefore – to satisfy my freedom – I will implement it now in React and style it myself. I will be much faster and more precise that way.
Sorry and good bye WordPress!
Author: admin
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Create your own strobe goggles
Download the following pattern as a PDF and print it out.
Place it on a piece of card – or, better still, a felt mat – and cut out the two basic shapes.
Then put the pieces together as follows:
Coat both sides of the top section with glue and join them together.
You can also simply stick them together.
You will receive this basic form.
Now make holes in the places shown.
You can also use a hole punch for this.
Then thread elastic bands through the holes and tie them in a knot.
You can now secure your mobile phone, with the display facing inwards, in the front elastic bands.
Pull the rear elastic band tight enough so that the assembly doesn’t fall off when you put it on. If you only intend to use it whilst lying down, you’ll need practically no tension at all. -
Brainwave entrainment with Neurotransformer
Brainwave synchronisation
This technique emerged in the late 1980s in connection with ‘brain machines’.
It is based on the effect whereby our brain synchronises with regular impulses within the range of its natural brainwave activity.
Flashing lights
If, for example, the eyes are exposed to flashes of light at a frequency of 20 hertz (vibrations per second) whilst nothing else out of the ordinary is being done, the neurons begin to fire more and more in unison at this frequency, which can be measured in the EEG (brain waves). This produces waves that spread synchronously throughout the entire brain.
Almost everyone is familiar with this effect from neon tubes, which flicker at a high frequency (50 to 60 hertz) and cause tension as well as making it difficult to sleep. This is because they operate in the gamma range (38 to 100 hertz), which in the brain normally arises during periods of high concentration, tension and the fight-or-flight response.
The same applies to the slow, calm flickering of a fire, which tends to lie in the alpha range (7 to 12 hertz), promoting relaxation and daydreaming.
When the brain is stimulated to oscillate at a specific frequency, the corresponding state – such as concentration, relaxation or meditation – is induced. It is therefore possible to externally specify and control a desired operating frequency and the associated state.
Sounds
The same effect can also be achieved using specially modulated tones. One method involves feeding slightly different, higher frequencies into the left and right ears via headphones (binaural tones). The brain then perceives a pulsation corresponding to the difference between these frequencies and begins to resonate with it.
The same effect can also be achieved with directly modulated tones, e.g. a carrier frequency of 220 hertz, which modulates in volume by 8 hertz (isochronous tones). The advantage is that this works even without headphones.
Neurotransformer
This was developed to produce both stroboscopic effects and modulated tones on a mobile phone or a PC and to control them in a timed sequence, so that, for example, over a period of 30 minutes, one is first guided into a state of deep relaxation and then back into everyday consciousness.
In addition, it also offers a number of useful features, such as modulated background music or voice recordings, which are directly imprinted as inductions whilst in a state of deep relaxation. These can also be played as subliminals, just barely audible behind the other sound sources.
A white noise generator can even be used to stimulate long, deep breathing.
Limitations
These effects can occur if the brain is receptive to them and not otherwise occupied.
However, in cases of pathological light sensitivity and epilepsy, stroboscopic effects must be strictly avoided, as they bypass the body’s natural defences and may trigger a seizure.
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Building up this site
Today, I began to implement this site, based on WordPress.
I am not sure whether this is the right way, because I am a low level browser developer and enjoy the freedom… On the other hand, setting up database models, node.js etc. needs some effort.
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Better initial sessions
When I finetuned the initial sessions, I was glad to have implemented keyboard support on PCs. To move points horizontally only, you simply hold down the shift key. For vertical movements you can use the ctrl key. When doing the refinement I often needed to do an undo. I then always pressed ctrl-z like a reflex and was then annoyed, that I had to press the undo button. So I implemented this key to, as well as the ctrl-shift-z for redo. -
Finetuned Themes
It’s amazing how easy you can add themes to your app if you worked clean before! Since I implemented from beginning all measures and colors in SCSS variables, it took half an hour to add a high contrast theme with larger fonts and buttons for people with visual diseases.
My backlog is almost empty now. Today I want to just orchestrate new sample sessions for download, since meanwhile I have a couple of really elaborated sessions for Zen meditation and deep inductions. -
Hello world!
My NeuroTransformer app is now worth to get an own domain!
As I wanted to have a fully featured brainwave entrainment app on all platforms, I implemented it as a Progressive Web App (PWA), that runs in any modern browser.On GooglePlay you are able to install it as a regular app under https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.tansan.twa,
and was linked to my company’s domain.Now I want to let it free and to support users with ‘how to’ and additional information about this tool. Therefore I started that site today.
Happy Birthday!