“I don't want you coming back here in the 130s, ma’am,” my trainer half-joked about my ridiculous heart rate at the end of gamma training. Seriously speaking, I'm with her. Seeing one’s heart rate well into the 130s is not so hot. We decided to blame the heat — a sudden upswing into the 30s…
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Orangeberry Tour of TIME AND SPACE Wraps Up
“It’s hard to fight for home when you’re dumped into an alien future with a pack of three boys gunning for your death.“ Today, August 31st, is the last day of the 2013 Orangeberry Book Expo, in which I participated with my time travel novel. Time and Space is in row 7 of their Booths.…
LORETA Neurofeedback’s Last Week
This week marks the end of another phase of my biofeedback journey. This week my LORETA neurofeedback treatments came to an end. Although I'm relieved I won't have to travel to Mississauga anymore, I will miss seeing the people, saying hello, discussing my progress, talking brains. I am now happily embarking on a ten-day staycation…
Beta Spikes and Grisly Scenes During LORETA Neurofeedback
The same week we began stimulation of my Wernicke’s area, we saw beta spikes for the first time during my LORETA neurofeedback session. It began right with the first screen. And it wasn’t just a spike of five or six standard deviations from the norm, it was an off-the-chart spike. My trainer spoke to Andrea…
The Days That Test
I think ongoing, never-ending family stress is retarding the effectiveness of the new tDCS stimulation and LORETA neurofeedback. On the other hand, even though I just wanted to sit on the subway train and read tweets in a zoned-out state, my brain (or mind, and what is the mind anyway?) let me do that for…
Gamma Brainwave Biofeedback: A Small Summary
Well, look at that: my muscle tension dropped. A lot. This in spite of my craptastic month continuing to roll along its craptastic way. And not only that, my heart rate also dropped. We’re back in the teens, even during the HRV screen (which ironically usually increases my heart rate). It's been too long since…
Gamma Brainwave Biofeedback: Wernicke’s, Cats, and Reading
OK, this is a bit freaky, but the words on my iPod playing into my ears are so . . . so clear. They’re reaching out and pulling me into understanding. It’s almost overwhelming to hear the words clearly enunciated instead of in my usual blurry way, like they’re making me hear them as clear…
Memories of the Past Fuel the Present
I’ve been gradually wandering back into the 1980s. Thanks to a serendipitous request by the city to scan and email a document this past week, I went into a flurry of scanning colour negatives of a 73-day trip to the UK and Europe I shot back in 1984. I’d scanned some photographs here and there…
LORETA #16 — I Need a Nap
I walked in to the ADD Centre and saw a familiar face I haven't seen in six years: my old trainer. Cool! Last time I saw her, she and I were working on me getting a ball to roll across a gorilla’s arm, over the shoulders, and across the other arm, from my left to…