Muse: Brain Health & Sleep

Along with Fit Mind and Waking Up, this meditation app stands out and is worth the price od Muse device.

W połączeniu z opaską, ta appka działa cuda!

Definitely worth the money, the most great device I have ever had.

You need to buy a band, but It is worth it

After a hectic day it is a great way to calm into the a relaxed sleep

If You want to learn how to meditate and you are struggling with this for a while, the Muse is for you! Your thoughts are translated into sounds. Action reaction. You think-you bring up a storm, you let go you hear birds. Brilliant idea!

I was one of the first users of the headband, I bought it shortly after the release. With every update the experience of the app gets significantly worse. Redundant flashy videos took place of well designed architecture. The current design of history of sessions and statistics is meaningless. Calibration of the device, for a couple of weeks now, is based on Cooking Utensils, Cities and Roads. If you are user of this app you KNOW what I'm talking about :). Frustrating experience every time you are using the app. Device have so much potential it's a shame to see it's wasted by the lack of understanding of how UI and UX should work.

This device is great! After musing about 500 hours over the course of two years, I strongly believe this technology has potential benefit for many people. I strongly feel that muse meditation helped me cultivate a relaxed and focused baseline. muse meditation is so effective that it basically replaced regular alcohol consumption within my life, but that is a personal anecdote- YMMV. Don’t place too much expectation on the technology or on your meditation practice. Strong benefits from a conventional practice will come over a very long period of time, 100-200 hours. If you want to go into the deep end of a practice, woodshed it and start doing 1-3 hour sits. Muse is an awesome gateway into meditating, but it’s also important to meditate without the app. Look into traditional styles of focused attention meditation, then pair them with the feedback. When using muse, always take time to wet the sensors + make good contact. I feel that Muse app is really good for developing relaxed concentration - Samatha or “meditative absorption”. This is an excellent skill to acquire because it will help you maintain a calm and positive attitude in all things. Some people gawk seeing meditation removed from a spiritual context, or seeing technology encroach into traditional practice. Others despise the idea of any practice part of religion or spirituality. I think meditation offers intense benefit to anyone who deeply engages with it. I think muse is an excellent gateway into meditation and a great tool to sharpen concentration as a specific faculty. I definitely wouldn’t have gotten so deep into practice without this device. If you want to form your own opinion on this tool, I recommend going deep and meditating a few hours with it :) Two requests for developers: #1). Can we export our brainwaves after the session? Being able to see them is awesome, but getting a CSV file would SLAP #2). Can we hack together a way to see progress between sessions? Since the app is recording brainwave data across months, I’d love to see an overall progress indicator. Even just a simple metric, like longest concentration streak recorded, or increase in alpha amplitude since starting with the app.

I purchased the Muse S (Gen 2) on 4/1. I have to say it’s been disappointing. The connection to the app and phone is unreliable and I’ve notice it is flat out making up data. How can I be so sure? Because twice now I’ve taken the headband with the device off and set it aside and it’s still displaying data it supposedly read from at least an hour after it’s been removed and untouched. I’m not sure how it could be reading my brain waves and sleep position when it’s feet away and the sensors aren’t even pointing at me.

Great tool for gathering sleep data but would be much better if it would just keep recording on the sleep programs rather than stop and ask if you want to ignore if the connection isn't perfect, since I won't know I need to address something while I'm asleep.