Got my BCI headband to pick up my meditation focus after 6 weeks of trying

I've been using a Muse headband for about 6 weeks now, mostly just watching the graphs do nothing. Last night I sat down for 20 minutes and the calm focus indicator actually stayed in the green for 12 straight minutes. My wife asked if I was asleep because I was so still. Has anyone else had a breakthrough moment where your brain finally cooperated with the sensors?

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kevin_schmidt971d ago

Isn't the whole point of meditation to not need a gadget to tell you you're doing it right?

gray_schmidt81d ago

Whoa, I gotta admit I was one of those skeptics who thought these headbands were just expensive toys for people who already meditate fine. But I got a cheap knockoff on a whim and had a similar moment where my focus graph actually looked like a solid block instead of a spiky mess. For me it was during a boring work call, I was trying to focus on the speaker and the app suddenly showed a solid calm wave for like 8 minutes, which never happened before. It honestly changed how I see the whole biofeedback thing, now I'm kinda obsessed with chasing that green bar again.