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Confirmation of Quantum Resonance in Brain Microtubules
A research team led by Anirban Bandyopadhyay – a preeminent researcher in the quantum science of biology – has demonstrated high temperature quantum mechanical vibrations in brain neurons. The research, undertaken at the National Institute of Material Sciences in...
Uncoiling the spiral: Maths and hallucinations
Think drug-induced hallucinations, and the whirly, spirally, tunnel-vision-like patterns of psychedelic imagery immediately spring to mind. But it's not just hallucinogenic drugs like LSD, cannabis or mescaline that conjure up these geometric structures. People have...
From Stroboscope to Dream Machine – A History of Flicker-Induced Hallucinations
When early neurophysiologists, like William Grey Walter (1910–1977), started using intermittent photic driving in electroencephalography, they were struck by a wide range of visual hallucinations that were reported. In current neuroscience, the phenomenon is used...
The Ultimate Guide To Brainwave Entrainment
Brainwave entrainment (BWE) is one of the most powerful, mind-enhancing tools available today. Countless studies have verified its benefits – from cognitive performance to alleviating stress, to even countering physical pain. As incredible as this technology is, the...
Induction of self awareness in dreams through frontal low current stimulation of gamma activity
Recent findings link frontotemporal gamma electroencephalographic (EEG) activity to conscious awareness in dreams, but a causal relationship has not yet been established. We found that current stimulation in the lower gamma band during REM sleep influences ongoing...
The Role of Altered States of Consciousness in Native American Healing
Shamanic and Native American healers have utilized methods to produce altered states of consciousness in themselves and their patients for thousands of years. These methods include sonic driving, photic driving, and other means of changing consciousness. Recent...
Neural interactions between flicker-induced self-organized visual hallucinations and physical stimuli
Spontaneous pattern formation in cortical activity may have consequences for perception, but little is known about the interaction between sensory-driven and self-organized cortical activity. To address this deficit, we explored the relationship between ordinary...
A State of Consciousness with Features of Both Waking and Non-Lucid Dreaming
The goal of the study was to seek physiological correlates of lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is a dissociated state with aspects of waking and dreaming combined in a way so as to suggest a specific alteration in brain physiology for which we now present preliminary...
Gamma Waves, “Aha” Moments & Dreaming
The alarm sounds off at 6:30 am. You groggily turn it off. Maybe you faintly recall a dream for a minute or two. You then quickly jump out of bed and hop in the shower to prepare yourself for a day of work, school, and/or tending to the family. From this point until...
Lucid Dreamers Produce The Fastest Brainwave Frequencies Ever Recorded
Lucid dreaming is one category of dreams that many people experience. It occurs when the individual is dreaming and during that dream the individual is completely aware that they are dreaming. Some people report a low-level lucidity state where one is aware they are...
Deeper Insights
A new website section provides you with more insight... A lot of people tell us they would like to understand a bit more about the concepts behind the benefits of using PandoraStar. Always happy to oblige we have now collected a body of reference links to research and...
Frequency – Based Light & Sound Neurotherapy (LSN) Research: A Review of the Research
Throughout time, people have learned to enjoy our brains’ natural tendency to synchronize with pleasant rhythmic stimulation. Whether it is the beating of drums around campfires in aboriginal cultures, disco dancing to throbbing music and synchronized strobe lights in...
A Model for the Origin and Properties of Flicker-Induced Geometric Phosphenes
We present a model for flicker phosphenes, the spontaneous appearance of geometric patterns in the visual field when a subject is exposed to diffuse flickering light. We suggest that the phenomenon results from the interaction of cortical lateral inhibition with...
Entoptic Hallucination
Entoptic hallucination, geometric hallucinations, or phosphenes, are one of the most commonly reported visual effects of psychedelics. Phosphenes are a sensation of light caused by excitation of the retina by mechanical or electrical means. Pressure phosphenes can be...
Electrophysiological correlates of flicker-induced form hallucinations
Form hallucinations can be reliably induced using temporally modulated light within a specific frequency range (15-30Hz). The neural substrates of such states have yet to be established with certainty. Brain activity of 5 "high responders" was recorded as they...
Revelations by Flicker, Dream machines and Electroencephalographic signals in art
How did ordinary tools in the Neurophysiology department become a means for spiritual enlightenment? The combination of brainwave (EEG) monitoring by the early adopters with stroboscopes induced side-effects in many of the clinical experimentees in neurophysiological...
High Gamma Power Is Phase-Locked to Theta Oscillations in Human Neocortex
We observed robust coupling between the high- and low-frequency bands of ongoing electrical activity in the human brain. In particular, the phase of the low-frequency theta (4 to 8 hertz) rhythm modulates power in the high gamma (80 to 150 hertz) band of the...
Academic Performance Enhancement with Photic Stimulation and EDR Feedback
This study was designed to test the possibility that training with the Biolight, a combined audio/visual stimulation (AVS) and EDR feedback device, would result in positive changes in academic performance. University students who had sought the help of the student...
Megabrain Report (1990)
In this issue, we describe over 20 different light and sound machines. Most of these devices have appeared on the market in the last year or two. More and more are emerging all the time. A similar explosion into the marketplace has happened with other types of...
The Infinite Mindfield
Anthony Peake discusses his book The Infinite Mindfield: The Quest to Find the Gateway to Higher Consciousness. The Infinite Mindfield uses as its starting point the widespread historical belief that the pineal gland -- the 'third eye' --...
Brainwave Frequency Listing
This is a listing of frequencies that various parties have claimed can affect the human mind or body in some way. The following sorts of frequencies are included : Brainwave Frequencies - These are frequencies associated with various mental states. Using brainwave...