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I was tracking how many times I woke up at night, how fast I fell asleep and how much deep sleep I got. Not nearly enough for my age as it turned out. Used the

by vimy 5y ago

I was tracking how many times I woke up at night, how fast I fell asleep and how much deep sleep I got. Not nearly enough for my age as it turned out. Used the data to find out what could improve my sleep. (Exercising in the morning or evening, no big meals before bedtime, etc). Quantified self basically. I currently use the sleepcycle app. Not nearly as useful as an actual EEG headband. Maybe consider also giving full access to people like me? Like a dev mode or something.

pedalpete 5y ago
The non-EEG devices are getting pretty good at that data, your phone next to your bed, not so much... EEG is probably overkill for most people, but it is the only way to detect SWO, and other parts of sleep we want to manipulate via sound. Plus, having a band on your head with bone conduction gives us an easy way to get sound stim to you. We'll have something in the future which is more generalized to a larger audience, but we're focused on a few groups that need what we're doing atm.
- vimy 5y ago
  Are the sounds similar to www.brain.fm?
  - pedalpete 5y ago
    No no no.... Here's an example of a piece of research https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2552/aae18f/pdf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2552/aae18f/... During your deepest sleep, there are bursts of brain activity called Slow Wave Oscillations. These SWOs are responsible/related to memory consolidation, clearing of amyloid plaques, regulating hormonal response, and more. When we detect an SWO, we provide a sound (auditory stimulation) and the response of your brain to the sound is to increase the power of the SWO by up to 40%. Much of the existing research measures the improved cognitive response of an individual post sleeping with stim, compared to baseline and sham. On my task list this month is to write a whitepaper which describes the stim and points to a bunch of the different research (there is lots of it). I'm writing the whitepaper in order to make it easy to understand for investors, and give them a jumping off point to get deeper in the research, should they want to do that. I'll potentially publish it broader if there is an audience for it.
    - vimy 5y ago
      Very interesting. I joined the waiting list.

by vimy 5y ago

pedalpete 5y ago

The non-EEG devices are getting pretty good at that data, your phone next to your bed, not so much... EEG is probably overkill for most people, but it is the only way to detect SWO, and other parts of sleep we want to manipulate via sound. Plus, having a band on your head with bone conduction gives us an easy way to get sound stim to you. We'll have something in the future which is more generalized to a larger audience, but we're focused on a few groups that need what we're doing atm.

vimy 5y ago
Are the sounds similar to www.brain.fm?
- pedalpete 5y ago
  No no no.... Here's an example of a piece of research https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2552/aae18f/pdf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2552/aae18f/... During your deepest sleep, there are bursts of brain activity called Slow Wave Oscillations. These SWOs are responsible/related to memory consolidation, clearing of amyloid plaques, regulating hormonal response, and more. When we detect an SWO, we provide a sound (auditory stimulation) and the response of your brain to the sound is to increase the power of the SWO by up to 40%. Much of the existing research measures the improved cognitive response of an individual post sleeping with stim, compared to baseline and sham. On my task list this month is to write a whitepaper which describes the stim and points to a bunch of the different research (there is lots of it). I'm writing the whitepaper in order to make it easy to understand for investors, and give them a jumping off point to get deeper in the research, should they want to do that. I'll potentially publish it broader if there is an audience for it.
  - vimy 5y ago
    Very interesting. I joined the waiting list.