I'm curious as to what others are experiencing while using this device. I am also wondering what other are thinking about or imagining while using the app to get the desired feedback.
I am mostly using the red circle for my sessions because it's pretty easy to see if I am accomplishing what I should be accomplishing. I continue to experiment with the other modes.
One thing that's become clear to me is that the harder I concentrate, the smaller tends to circle get. I'm still trying to figure out what my brain is doing when the circle gets bigger. I also find that 5 or 10 minutes is about as much HEG training as I can take before I get too sleepy or my mind shuts off.
How is anybody else doing?
Bob
Hey Bob! That sounds like exactly what should be happening on your first exercises! That's awesome!
Think of the vasculature you're working out as being like a muscle you forgot you could control, and now it's screaming at you for neglecting it for all these years, but it can still get strong again with some TLC. The sleepiness and fatigue are very normal circumstances from everything I've learned, felt, and witnessed with HEG. Give it time, you'll notice the fatigue fade away. Keep. Going!
In regards to the forced concentrating reducing the score, it's like we gotta learn to concentrate without clenching lol, if that is part of the reason anyway. A really old pair of terms are di-tension and co-tension, where one ye-olde psychologist Trigant Burrow noticed how we tended to think "forward" in that we physically stress our foreheads when we are in concentrated "narrow" states, and then that we tended to have even tension across our head when we are in "open" states or social states. He thought the former was actually a learned stress response and had something to do with how we relate to ourselves physically (i.e. how we learn to "use" our minds as if they're independent entities from our other body parts - I know this is weird stuff), and treated people to release that forward physical tension when they performed cognitive tasks. Now, is any of that really relevant here? I have no idea, maybe.
Cheers! Would love to hear how others are doing and offer any observations!
Josh
I don't know if Josh has linked to this elsewhere, but it is excellent. And written by noted neurofeedback wizard, Pete van Deusen.
https://brain-trainer.com/answers/training-related/nir-specific/