Brainwave generator

http://www.bwgen.com/download.htm
That is the brainwave generator.
http://www.bwgen.com/theory.htm
That is the theory.
Can anybody tell me if it is fraud or real.

 

It's a real theory... not that that really means anything. I did get that program a while ago to test it out, I wrote an article for my school newspaper on it ("Can Brainwaves help revision?"). I'd never pay for it though. Appart from anything I can generate my own brainwave synchroniser tracks with my audio software I use for recording, if I was really THAT bothered.

My article came to the tentative conclusion that more than anything the white noise background track helps you concentrate on study, as opposed to having any real effect on brain activity (I didn't use an EEG though so I don't really know for sure). Brainwave tracks can help you get to sleep though, they can be very relaxing! But again, its probably not due to the binaural convolutions, more the background and base sounds.

The theory stands up perfectly fine (it seems to work in clinical tests), not sure how much of a practical reality it really is though. Try it, see if it works!

 

If the brain is electronic,then can we use devices to observe our thoughts and use devices to control our thinking and our movements.

 

Yes, well, sortof. You can observe brain activity in the form of electrical pulses from synapses, but you'd need to know what every synaptic response and stimulus meant before you could turn that data into say images or "thoughts". Again with controlling your thinking. You'd need to know exactly what to stimulate for the desired effect, which although possible is very hard to achieve a direct form of mind control.

Then again, Sony have a patent on that sort of thing so who knows ...

 

But if it is a lot of synapses how comes the brain waves are being recorded by the eeg as a single wave?Do they have a clock speed like a chip?

 

Interesting...

About 6 months ago during a long period of research into lucid dreaming, I found a few programs that you can run while you're sleeping that will basically 'push' you into a lucid dream by playing very odd tones. I never actually tried it, but I recall the theory behind it being based on what's in the link you gave.

Goldie, it is your mission to e-mail that story to me. gottheit @ gmail

 

Tee hee, I'll have to dig it up, its on my desktop machine somewhere...

Anyway. The idea behind playing you sound waves is that the difference between the two tones which you hear in each year (thus binaural) is supposed to be a representation of the EEG reading that you want to achieve. It will try to "sychronise" your brainwaves with the desired frequency, which is why its called a brainwave synchroniser. i.e. a lower frequency wave for lower level of operation (i.e. sleeping), and higher for heightened activity. The theory is that your brain inturprets the difference in tones and adjusts its operation accordingly. In theory anyway.

You can think of the output of the brain somewhat like clock cycles on a processor. Since the clock oscilates from logic 0 to logic 1 continuously, with a set frequency (the clock "speed"), it acts a little like a brainwave. The electrical impulses (which of course cause electromagnetic disturbance much like any electrical field) are recorded by an EEG machine, and a wavy line is plotted as the synapses fire off. More synapese are firing, the higher the graph, basically, but its a bit more complicated that due to to the somewhat inprecise nature of the readings.

You see a wavey line as the synapses fire in bursts. If you want to continue the processor analogy (lets see how far it goes ), then the waves is the clock speed, and every peak is a calculation being done. Of course, your brain is an organic computer, and as such doesn't just do one calculation every clock, but many thousand (probably). The higher the frequency of the wave, the higher the rate of calculations is. As in overclocking, the faster the clock, the faster instructions are carried out.

As with computers, if you have such a fast clock that you don't reach logic 1, then instructions are not carried out and errors occur. With brainwaves (hmm...) if its going so fast the synapses don't get a chance to fire (unlikley, but..) then you'll only have a few of the thousand "computations" occur. Which might have somthing to do with not thinking clearly when you're in shock (brainwaves are very high frequency when you go into shock). Who knows. I'm not even sure thats 100% right but it seems to work.

Hmm. Well, anyway, try it out, it might work I guess it works bit like hypnosis, making subconcious suggestions to your brain.

 

Thanks goldfish,very interesing!
I dint try it,I wish to keep my brains intact.