Muse: Brain Health & Sleep

De muse app met hoofdband aankopen was een van mn beste aankopen. De hoofdband is best duur maar echt oprecht elke euro waard. Dankzij de hoofdband en app krijg ik mn meditatie routine terug opgepakt wanneer het weer even geleden was. De EEG sensoren geven zo een correcte feedback en je voelt zo het verschil. Gewoonweg super tevreden!

feedback processes motivate me in meditation

Het is superleuk om met de Muse 2 op je hoofd te mediteren. Nu weet ik tenminste of ik het echt wel goed doe. Die feedback is de moeite waard.

Très bon outil de détente après une journée chargée

I love it so far. Sometimes the background can distract you and sometimes it takes you deeper into the meditation.

As many engineers, my brain is constanly working in a multy threaded manner. Mixing actual projects, ongoing duties and upcoming ideas simultaneously. This activities are (un)fortunately (according to yourself or hierarchy) seen as positive business wise. However, in order to be efficient, it´s very important to train ourself, to turn on/off this brain capability to either work @300% either slow down and turn back to ´mono' tasking thought... Muse is one of the first tool which enables me to learn this capability to control the way my brain operates and to literaly enable it to activate the switch to turn my neurons to rest for a controlled period of time! Juste after two weeks of daily usages (one to three/d) I reached a level of 50% calm (controlled) activities going up to 75% (for 7min sessions so far) Definitely a must have!! thank Interaxon Nb: I hope you will release soon a French speaking app for my Wife.

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.

From setup to my first meditation it was very easy to use. Went from opening the app to completing my first meditation in under ten minutes. Love the feedback and the graphing of data. My only desire would be for a choice of the instructors gender for voiceover.