Dreamr app: a relaxing experience?

I've used a real DREAM MACHINE many many times and if ur a person with any type of open mind and with an artistic bone in ur body, IT WORKS!!! For god sake William S. Burroughs enjoyed it! and no cancer or pseudoscienc.

I'll finish with this:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/graphics/011109_hacking_your_brain/

"DO YOU EVER want to change the way you see the world? Wouldn't it be fun to hallucinate on your lunch break? Although we typically associate such phenomena with powerful drugs like LSD or mescaline, it's easy to fling open the doors of perception without them: All it takes is a basic understanding of how the mind works.

The first thing to know is that the mind isn't a mirror, or even a passive observer of reality. Much of what we think of as being out there actually comes from in here, and is a byproduct of how the brain processes sensation. In recent years scientists have come up with a number of simple tricks that expose the artifice of our senses, so that we end up perceiving what we know isn't real - tweaking the cortex to produce something uncannily like hallucinations. Perhaps we hear the voice of someone who is no longer alive, or feel as if our nose is suddenly 3 feet long."

Ok, found more or less what I was looking for.

" The studies from Fytche have shown that the stroboscope is a friendly and reliable tool for the induction of visual images by altering neuronal activity in and between the thalamocortical circuits [15]. A change in thalamocortical activity has also been associated with a variety of neuropsychiatric disorders ('thalamocortical dysrythmias'), including the Charles Bonnet syndrome (CBS) [24]. The CBS consists of complex visual hallucinations that typically occur when there is an inadequate stimulus to the visual system. Patients generally suffer from eye conditions like macular degeneration and are aware that the phenomena are not real. Especially in the dark they experience a range of hallucinations that are very similar to the ones induced by the stroboscope [25]. As a result, the stroboscopic hallucinations can be used to study the underlying mechanisms of the CBS and possible therapeutic interventions, like medication. "

http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Aktion=ShowFulltext&ArtikelNr=235945&ProduktNr=223840.#SA4

Slow TAUW day?

eye cancer?

I used to use a light/sound device. I was in my early twenties, and working a grave shift. When I got home around 9am, all my housemates were just getting up, so I'd talk with them, then I'd be quite awake because it was bright morning daylight, so I'd play around, wander the city, come back and think of going to sleep but then my housemates would be returning from school and I'd stay up talking, then eat dinner with them, and then finally I'd realize it was after 9pm and I would need to get on my bike (to travel 12 miles) in about two hours. I'd rush upstairs, set my light/sound 'dream' device to ramp me down to the deepest state (theta?) and ramp me back up in an hour and a half.

I'd fall asleep after about 10 minutes or so, and come back awake when it was almost finished ramping me back awake (beta waves) and then I'd rush out on my bike.

I did this five days a week for a few weeks. Not that it is recommended (I eventually fell asleep and started dreaming while at work standing in the kitchen preparing food) ... but it definitely gave me some deep zzzs.

I can't imagine just flashing lights would do the trick though. I'd think you'd also need the sounds to really help entrain your brain.

Maybe the app could second as a Rave accessory. :D

The free flashlight app "myLite" has had strobing effects that I used for the same thing.

Please try my "Journeys" app for both relaxation and more fun sounds too.

My favorite computer app for binaural beats is BWGEN but it is a Windows-only program - haven't found anything I like as much for the Mac.

I'll stick with my bottle of wine.

If you want a true "dream machine", just call Mike Tyson a sissy to his face. I guarantee you'll see light and be dreaming in no time at all! No BS science there, just basic physics! ;-)

There is the same thing in a browser here:

http://www.netliberty.net/dreamachine.html

At 17Hz I get patterned hallucinations. Pretty cool. This has been used to study the formation of hallucinations in conjunction with brain imagery.

Lost my bookmarks, so can't point you to it.