brain training session 2

Yesterday I started taking the remedy for the brain scarring. 7-10 drops in water.

Not with Dr P, today, with the same colleague who did the brain-cap reading.

We work with the same two areas of the brain.

I learn on this session that the chirruping noises the programme makes are part of the training. I had wondered but just assumed they were a 'programme running' sound. There are cicada-like chirrups, tweets and little clunks, a bit like the closing of a small metal bin.

The machine sets targets on an increment. Small changes to the start pattern are targeted to lead the brain to decrease or increase the various waves. When your synapses change the pattern (or whatever the heck is actually going on), it  results in a reward. The noise is the reward. It's hardly a trip to Paris, but the brain, like a good dog, takes it as a treat. Fascinating.

The instruction I am given is to 'relax and let the brain adapt.' Oh that's interesting , last session I was willing the green to go up..in a soft playful way.

Today my green medium waves start low. First test I score 483, around 48 correct changes per minute. I am told that anything over 14 points per minute is good.

Next, the central motor strip. I see on the desk the name of the conducting gel : 'alpha conducting solution.' At least I imaginge this is the one that's being. used to connect the electrodes.

I get a score of 530 which sounds good to me. The sluggish green bar has been raised up, but so has the yellow bar, which I should have lowered. I had one or two less than pleasant thoughts during this session - is that the cause?

Alan, who's running the session says: 'it could be hyper-vigilance or over-analyzing it could be compensating for something else.' But my theta waves went low and remained like that for the whole session.

I come away feeling grumpy. 

I wonder why we only do two things in the session.

I wonder when it will start to help my tinnitus.