This is your triple scoop banana split ice cream sundae dessert. The Brainwave Analyzer gives you super powerful and easy to use tools for analyzing your meditation brainwaves.
Graphs
What was going on in my brain when I was in a deep or distracted state?
- Tap on the Graph settings button on the bottom right of the screen.
- Tap on the Blue Dash to see what was going on in your brain just before you tapped once for “emerging from depth”.
- Tap on the Double Orange Dots to see what the same EEG metrics were just before you tapped twice for “recovering from distraction”.
Your goal is to make the Blue Dash pattern very different from the Double Orange Dots pattern.
NB: The Key Metric graphs are programmed so good is always to the right. So if a metric was supposed to go down and it does go down, the graph will be to the right of center.
How were my brainwaves different at the beginning and end of my session?
- Tap on the Graph settings button on the bottom right of the screen.
- Tap on Start to see the first third of your session, End to see the last third of your session, or Custom to adjust the sliders to see any section of your session.
If you find you are not as deep at the end, you may want to shorten your sessions. If you find you are deepest at the end, you are probably ready for longer sessions.
How did the metrics change during the session?
- Tap on the Graph settings button, then the Timeline button.
- To simplify what looks like a tangle of spaghetti, go to the Metrics Report Card below and tap check boxes on the left of each metric to turn that line off and on in the timeline graph.
Metrics Report Card
These are metrics that are the ones meditation science expects are most relevant for your practice and level of expertise. Under each metric, we explain which way they are supposed to go and how they contribute to a deeper meditation. The arrow says which way the metric went, the color says whether it was the right direction. So if the metric was supposed to go down and it does go down the metric is green.
We are quite proud of the tips under each metric. We believe this is the first instance of brainwave based coaching advice for deeper mediations that is tuned to a person’s practice, level of expertise, and brainwaves. We literally have over 400 coaching tips for the report card.
The depth indicators on the right are based on Cohen’s d statistics for effect size:
- Deeper: Large effect size >=.8
- Deep: Medium effect size +.3 – .79
- Baseline: Small Effect size -.3 to +.3
- Shallow: Medium effect size or more in the wrong direction <-.3
Full Report
The Full Report at the bottom of the brainwave analyzer gives you deeper training in what it means when each metric goes up and down in each location. The document is several pages long, so we suggest emailing it to yourself. If you want to dive even deeper, flip the citations switch and get the reference that you can google to learn even more about the key metrics for your practice.
What are the Triple Purple Dots for?
You can do a triple tap during a session to annotate times when you were especially deep or anxious so you can investigate the brainwaves for these moments in the Brainwave Analyzer. If you see God, tap three times. When you are done mediating, go to the Brainwave Analyzer to look up your brainwaves for seeing God.
Editing Taps
You can click on the dashes and dots under the timelines to delete them if they are unreliable or add notes. Notice that you can make the timelines more compact or spread out by pinching the timeline graphs.