“UNOFFICIAL”
After a little bit of research, we discovered A Number of participants, test subjects,
and possessors of previous versions of Synetic Systems' (Formerly SynchroMed)
machines have taken this latest unit, Proteus to some amazing places. Daresay decided to set aside a
piece of its web site as a third party forum for Synetic Systems' machines, because we believe this technology
is the wave of a future we're crashing under, rather than using to the fullest.
Before we get into that, we assume you have one of these items, and will pass through some basic user info.
If not, scroll down to medical findings and other useful links.
Get comfortable. Cover yourself with a blanket, even if you’re not
cold when you lay down. If you have comfortable headphones, use them.
Although the unit included with your machine is of quite high quality,
their small size and light weight can not contend with a good home set.
Keep the light-sound unit close to you, so you can easily adjust the sound
level, or light intensity, without disturbing your evolving experience.
Try to make sure there’s nothing you have to be doing soon, or if there
is, set an alarm, or kitchen timer so you can relax, and not worry
about missing your … whateveritis. Set the light level so you’re
not resisting its intensity, but it’s as high as you would want it to be.
Just in the pocket, or on the edge of making you tense, will often provide
the most profound visual experiences. Do NOT push this envelope if
you are prone to migraines, or think yourself susceptible to any kind of
seizure disorder, either congenitally based, or drug activated. There
have been no conclusive studies on the possible negative or positive effects
of migraine relief. Proceed slowly, if you intend to explore this
subject for yourself. Many people habit the lower settings of the light intensity realm,
as the brighter LED flashes obliterate the intricate patterns they You may post your findings at the WWW message board,
or check the FTP folder for latest findings.
It’s quite easy to doze off with
the machine on, especially if you’re a bit wrung out, it’s late at night,
you’ve been drinking, or you play one of the audio CDs from the start,
with nothing you have to do later on. Many people have found the
experience of using light sound therapy profoundly regenerating if the
mind is alert, but their physical body is tired.
Once you’re really relaxed and in
the groove (perhaps your eyes have rolled back in their sockets) see if
there aren’t some geometric patterns forming. They can be extremely
complex, and constantly evolving, like fractals; they dance in a shimmering
veil … examine the negative space (the dark areas, that define the shapes),
and try to peer through them. Imagine that dark space, which
lends contrast the brightly colored flickering shapes, is clear like window
glass, and you’re looking beyond what’s projected in front of you, to a
space behind it. Another trick is to imagine, or actually see your
eyes opening, as if you were waking from a good night’s sleep, yet they
remain closed . You might notice, with some practice, that another
backdrop of patterns in the distance appears, often quite different than
the first one that’s so encompassing before you, and usually far more intricate.
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First off, visit the web page and download
the software which lets you design your own light-sound programs. Once you install
this, break out that nifty serial port cable, and update the operating system, from the
8 bit it was shipped with, to the 10 bit (which lets you use the biofeedback machines
in conjunction with the Proteus, among other things). The sound will improve markedly, and will give you
more of a layered, textured, complexity. It's rumored a
version of the user manual is being written specially
for people (like us) who've had their brains basted with too many multi-syllable
technojargons, and will soon to be offered there. . Although it is easy to blast past
the short and extremely concise amalgamation of instructions that's included with your unit,
Read the Original Manual Carefully,
so you know when you’ve pushed every button in a semi-catatonic trance,
thinking the machine is still running, when it actually went off hours
ago, and in the process activated one of the lesser-known options, like
switching the eyepieces to mono, instead of the normal independently-driven
channels, or some other effect you’d only discover a year or two later
on. This unit, although seemingly simple, is really tantalizingly
complex once you consider constructing your own personal programs, and/or
altering their pitch and cadence in real time.
I would recommend searching around
for a good sounding set of in-the-ear earphones to add to your AudioStrobe
package. It will serve up a louder dose of audio, fetter you
less as you fall asleep and possibly thrash around in the midst of titanic
clashes with long-extinct beasts, and perhaps allow you to share the experience
with a friend or disparaging other. Get a few two-into-one
1/8th inch stereo adapters (see Dual Users, below) one of which can double
as an earphone extension if you utilize the included CD connecting cable,
and don’t plug the male part of the adapter into anything .
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Synetic Systems has several units which will interface with your light sound machine,
but if you want to do it on the absolute cheap, simply keep your fingers on your unit's light and volume controls, and move them intuitively
as the programs evolve. It helps to keep a focus, like your heartbeat, or your breath, as you proceed.
You may find that even the lowest light level may seem quite intense once you lose track of where you are on the continuum,
Many users experience a feeling of lightness, as if they were rising out of their bodies. If this seems to be happening to you,
relax and go with it, as such intense sensations often accompany a breakthrough, into some new state of perception, or bodily awareness.
Upcoming AudioStrobe models will have one or more channels of biofeedback sensing built right into them, according to the inventor.
If you're really interested in taking it to the next level right away, there is a unit called Thoughtstream that Synetic Systems
produces, which will interface seamlessly with the Proteus, if you download the latest bios from their site, and upgrade its works.
The software is already integrated with the capability to do this. You can manually tweak your states of perception by watching the
display on the front of Proteus when you feel some strange, unusually relaxing, uplifting, or strong sensation off one of the sessions.
By noting the frequency at that time, you can design your own session with the software you can quickly download, to feature these magic
combinations.
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If you want to experience the synchronicity
of dual users on one mind machine, all you need is a 1/8” stereo splitter
(makes two plug ins from one) available at Radio Shack for about three
fifty, and another set of goggles. Plug the splitter into the goggle
hole, and away you go. If you’re running and audio encoded CD, plug
one set of headphones into your portable CD player, so the remote control
volume is accessible, and plug the other set into the light sound machine,
as you would do without a CD player. Use the remote connection cord
included with Proteus, to connect the audio out jack on the CD player,
to the auxiliary jack on Proteus. Now you each have independent volume
controls. The LED lights will be dimmer than usual, if you
tend to run the unit on full power, and likewise, one set of goggles may
be dimmer than the other given slight differences in their internal resistance.
Turn the machine on and watch them, then select the pair that corresponds
with the way you prefer to experience the programs. It helps to do
your session in reduced light, or darkness to make up for the lower light
intensity, due to increased system load. If you do not have a portable
CD player, or your player does not have more than one output jack, you
will need another splitter. In the latter case, put the second splitter
in your CD player, after you attach the connecting cord to the audio-strobe
right next to it.
Unlike LEDs, when splitting Proteus'
internal sound with two people, the volume is not significantly reduced.
Plug the second splitter in to the unit’s headphone jack after you snap
both sets of headphones in. In general it’s better to plug the splitter
in after its jacks have been filled, for the extra leverage of the splitter
can damage audio inputs and outputs. In this configuration, you’ll
have to leg-wrestle your partner for volume control.
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Here's the reason Daresay undertook this unofficial
manual. Quite unenounced to the inventor, we began scribbling
thoughts on napkins after visiting the Synetic Systems nerve center, where the inventor lives and
works with his partner, a charming woman with a superlative quote ever at
hand, over a fine red wine freshly dispensed to the glass. We'd seen
the pleasure of knowing him for many years, but never experienced his
actual devices, only heard the plans and schemes he divulged through our
increasingly-synchronistic meetings, at a little-known bohemian coffee haunt,
tucked in an alley. Upon seeing the potential lodged in what he was doing,
since soldering bulk parts in a rented garage to the first saleable light-sound units, we
were struck with the wide-open vista this technology held for addressing
a slew of stubborn disorders without expensive treatments, unpleasant
drugs, reoccurrences, or dire side effects. That was just the physical side of things.
Where the units take you internally, through the neural framework we've stashed full of stuff
in however many years we've walked the planet, is another act entirely. "On the second use,
I rose slightly out of my body, one foot in the reality I left, and one in the realm beyond."
"Fantastic arrays of shapes, colors and patterns invaded the normally black space, of closed eyes."
"I felt as if I were *******************
"Sleep when you’re dead. It’s
some people’s motto. I know I’ve ascribed to it for quite
a number of reasons through the years, broken up by a necessary and rational
return to seven solid hours for a stint, to recover. I have found
I can effectively replace up to an hour sleep with the use of light sound
stimulation, taken at night. I put the unit on and set it for
some program, either CD driven, or one of the fifty from the internal memory,
and simply fall asleep. Whatever waking time I invest in this
process, seems to be plentifully paid back in that much less time I actually need to sleep."
This was the finding of computer programmer/raver we loaned one of our units to.
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The Proteus
is only the beginning of what will certainly be a far larger picture.
In a visit to the company, I saw a number of prototypes of devices that
could only be called revolutionary. There are wireless 3-D
glasses with independent drivers for each eyepiece running an approximation
of six channel surround sound, being linked to an undated version of [
] with 2 to six channels of biofeedback control, which will let you concentrate
on any number of body functions, to manipulate the color, shape, and time-space
of three dimensional rotation of various objects being studied to create
different forms of cross-connective brain activity, or relaxation states.
There is also research being implemented to refine through biofeedback,
the individual bio-mechanism which promotes entry into hypnogogic, or lucid
dreaming. Simplified one-channel versions of these machines will
become interactive with the Proteus, which will drive soon to be offered
three channel glasses, which will generate tens of thousands of colors
in various shades of intensity, vs. the current two Red-Green
(and optional Red-Blue) goggles which currently generate 256 shades.] This will include computer
software which will enable more complex importing, exporting and encoding
of input and output light-sound data. User profiles, for personal
or medical research, will be constantly generated and updated by sets of
variables the individual user or researcher will employ. Imagine---you
use your mind to control the reality before you, which in turn is linked
to controllable autonomic functions in the body. You are entertaining
yourself, or relaxing your mind, straight into states yogis approach; and
you're doing it to heal yourself, explore the outer reaches of the mind-body
link, troll the area of the spirit where such unions of dream and wake
lie, and bring them back painlessly into this world, to make your life
that much more interesting, offering a rare bounty of vitality and mystery,
TV and movies will quite simply, never provide.
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CONGRATULATIONS!
You have in your possession one
of the most intriguing, and powerful devices a layman can legally buy.
It has been re-invented, researched, fine-tuned and brainstormed for fifteen
years by the inventor, a number of his employees, hordes of test subjects
wired (through various states) into the uncompromising clutches of a ten-channel
EEG. We have taken it upon ourselves to write this manual, as
conversations with the inventor disclosed the FDA would NOT APPROVE his device if it
made ANY MEDICAL CLAIMS WHATSOEVER, though exhaustive public and private, studies rendered on
this technology's ability to expand or retain memory, increase test scores, IQ, relaxation, and decrease dependence on
damaging drugs like Ritalin, or downers. It also attends to basic disturbances in a brain’s natural cycles of
sleep and wake, for those with no medical "label" or diagnosis for their imbalance. Several people we've exposed the units to
are successfully treating themselves for seasonal affective disorder with the high-intensity light the units emit. Many more are
experimenting with the awesome potential this machine, and subsequent versions of it, possess to
mitigate, or alleviate a wide variety of disorders science is powerless to anything by prescribe drugs for.
It's not hard to see why this unit might feel the thumb of medical suppression, in the future.
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RECOMMENDATIONS
SLICKING UP THE SYSTEM
BIOFEEDBACK
DUAL USERS
MEDICAL APPLICATIONS
AVOIDING SLEEP, OR SEEKING IT.
SUBSEQUENT
MODELS BEING DEVELOPED
Studies, Abstracts, Proofs
and related nomenclature
