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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Giovanni,<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'>Right now I'm working on a somehow transhumanist project that is to develop an automatic system that can recognize the sleep phases and follow the EEG and then tries to enhance the slow wave sleep by stimulating the brain with sounds at the right frequency and phase. I'm using a Phase Locked Loop to actually lock on the brain patterns during slow wave sleep and then play back to the brain these same patterns to exploit possible resonances in the relevant neural network.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'>We have done a pilot study (also testing every day the system on myself to try many different parameters and set up) and we got an increase of slow wave power anything in between 20-50 % that is more than what you get with some of the sedative drugs available.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'>I hope one day to develop a system that is portable and easy enough to use that people could actually use it at home with a wireless EEG and smart phone. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'>Just wanted to share this with the group, sleep is a cool subject.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>That's interesting . . . Could be used in principle to get my "lucid-dream-switch". The starting of lucid dreams also has a distinctive wave-pattern. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Links?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Best<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Stephan<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>