Hello all -

This will be my first year at burning man... I'm quite excited. I caught wind of your camp through friends Brian and Monet... they talked me into going this year, and it seems a good time to go (will have graduated by then) and now I'm definately going....

So I hear the whole thing is what you bring to it, yah know, everyone creating the everything, together and forever...

so my hope is to create a Sleep Reducer Installation / Tent something.

So what's sleep reducer? It's brain entrainment to the delta frequency. Roight. For those that aren't familiar with this science gobbledygook, the idea is you present the ears with slightly different frequencies so the brain interprets the difference, and due to the fact that all things vibrate and tend to be influenced by other vibrating things, the brain starts to mimick the pattern produced by the interference. (very rough version of theory)

So, say present left ear = 500 Hz, right ear 510 Hz. Brain interprets as 10 Hz, which is the alpha frequency, which is correlated with an "relaxed but alert" state of mind.

The sleep reducer program brings the brain down to the Delta frequency, that found in deep sleep. This is done for 30 minutes or so. And because in normal sleep patterns, the brain goes in and out of the delta frequency (through the REM cycles and what-have-you), this 30 minute entrainment of delta pattern is equivalent to the amount of delta pattern sleep you'd get in 4 hours.

for more exploration: www.bwgen.com/
and I just discovered this one, maybe I'll utilize it also:
www.transparentcorp.com/produc...dex.php

Perhaps I'll implement the visual entrainment also. Who knows.

I've used this thing for the past 4 years to augment the loss of sleep attributed to school work and poor time management. Well, not poor time management, but poorly manifested time? Ah who knows.

So, I figure this little tool could come in handy for folks at a festival where sleep is one of those things that seems to just kinda slip away from the realm of necessities, and then WHAM there's a purple monkey dishwasher.

So, moral of this ridiculously long pose is HI!

And I have no idea what I need to do to make this happen. The equipment is merely a bunch of cd-players (probobly 5? 7?) and headphones, and the ppl under entrainment need a place to either lie down or sit down. And I guess i'll just bring a lot of batteries or attempt to fight needless consumption by building some kind of solar panel / rechargable battery array. My main issue is the accomodation for the subject. Should I just bring one of those huge 12 person tents? They get pretty hot. I dunno.

So, lemme know what yah think of this idear and any suggestions on how I should perform this magic would be great because I've never been.

Or have I?

Happy snow day from the North East!
Marty