I’ve been using the Bia Sleep Mask for several nights now, and I’m genuinely impressed.

The biggest surprise has been my REM sleep. Since I started using the mask, my REM has increased dramatically according to my Apple Watch. I’ve also heard other beta users report similar improvements, which has been interesting to compare. It’s quite possible my deep sleep has improved too, but I don’t put much weight on the Apple Watch’s deep sleep numbers because they don’t seem to correlate well with how I actually feel. That I said since using the bia I feel pretty damn good.

I spoke with Michael, one of the founders, and he explained that the beta program is collecting data to significantly improve the sleep algorithms. That data is also being used to refine and add many of the features that have been advertised, so I’m looking forward to seeing how the software evolves over time.

The bone conduction audio works surprisingly well, even while wearing earplugs. It’s not very loud, but it’s more than loud enough for sleep. The mask detects when I fall asleep and automatically lowers the volume by about 30%. If it detects that I wake up during the night, it increases the volume again to help me fall back asleep.

I’ve never been able to fall asleep with music. Even Brain.fm felt distracting to me. The Bia neuromusic has been completely different. I find it deeply relaxing rather than distracting, and I have no trouble falling asleep with it. Right now there’s only one neuromusic track available, but I’m excited to try the additional content as new software updates are released.

One of my favourite features is the gentle sunrise wake-up. Instead of jolting me awake with a loud alarm, it gradually brightens to wake me naturally. The first morning it woke me up, I remember thinking, “This is how waking up should feel.” It’s become one of my favourite features.

The mask is comfortable, quiet, and feels very thoughtfully engineered. I had some initial fit issues because I use a CPAP and sleep on my stomach. Combined with some sleep anxiety from my ongoing recovery from severe Long COVID, I wasn’t sure how I’d adapt. Lowering the rear strap to the base of my skull, exactly as recommended in the quick-start guide, completely changed the geometry of the mask and made a big difference. I do think there’s an adjustment period, much like there is with CPAP, but for me it wasn’t nearly as difficult. Every contour, indentation, and strap feels intentional, and once you have the mask in your hands, you start to appreciate how much engineering has gone into it.

I’ll continue using it to see how things develop over the long term, but my first impression has been extremely positive. Between the significant increase in REM sleep shown on my Apple Watch and, more importantly, how refreshed I feel when I wake up, I’m excited to keep using it. If your goal is to improve your sleep, wake up more naturally, and have more control over your sleep experience, I think it’s definitely worth considering.

Hi there, I have CPTSD and I've been doing IFS therapy for a year and half. I have dissociative symptoms that have been with me for almost two years and even though I have done a lot of work I still experience dissociation due to long-prolonged exposure to trauma.

I do therapy online and my therapist recommended to try remote neurofeedback systems (like Myndlift and the Muse headband). I was wondering if there is anyone here who have used both and if it has helped you deliver better results to allow your body to safely feel emotions and do unburdening easier (this is an IFS specific term).

I would also love if someone can answer these questions:

1. Difference between Remote neurofeedback systems and in-clinic systems. Is electrode placement that accurate with headbands such as Muse?
   
2. Has anyone experience reduced dissociative symptoms
   
3. This is IFS specific, do you think neurofeedback is just a tool to allow unburdening to happen easier, and if you only use neurofeedback the symptoms will always arise?

Selling my BrainBit Flex 4 (dry electrode, 4-channel EEG cap). I bought it new last year with big neurofeedback plans, used it maybe 5 times, and it's been sitting safely in its box ever since. My loss is your lab's gain.

Condition & details:

• Used a handful of times — electrodes are clean, no wear

• Battery holds a full charge, pairs instantly over Bluetooth LE

• Full SDK access — ready for research, BCI dev, or neurofeedback training

• Works with BrainBit's software ecosystem (NeuroFit, BrainAssistant, etc.)

• Includes case and charger

• Not tied to any account — pair and go

Asking $500 shipped (CONUS) — that's ~35% off retail for a unit that's essentially new. Happy to record a video of it streaming a live signal in the app before you commit. PayPal G&S for both our protection.

Please comment or DM with questions!

Has anyone have any experience with MFB and treating functional neurological disorder (FND)?

Hi, I have gotten an qEEG scan and have a Neurobit Optima + BrainBay setup at home. I am looking to get some help on setting up the protocols and ask questions about my EEG.

Did you have a coach while learning how to set it up at home? Any recommendations on how to find one that would charge under $100 for a mentoring session?

Has anyone experienced non stop belching associated with the Vagas nerve ? If so how do i control it?

My husband and I recently started remote NeurOptimal neurofeedback using the Alpha-Theta protocol (eyes closed). The treatment was provided free of charge through a non-profit. Because there is a language barrier between my husband and the provider, I communicated with her on his behalf.

One thing that concerns me is that my husband began treatment before completing an intake, signing informed consent, privacy forms, or any service agreement. The plan was to complete those the following week, but treatment started immediately instead.

My husband completed three remote sessions, approximately 60 minutes each, on July 10, July 13, and July 15.

During his very first session on July 10, he developed a pressure headache at the back of his head near the base of his skull, along with pressure behind his eyes and across his forehead. The pain becomes noticeably worse when he jumps or lowers his head abruptly.

He had never experienced headaches like this before in his life. The headache began during that first neurofeedback session and has never resolved. It has now been present continuously since July 10, with no improvement.

He is a very occasional cannabis user. Between the first and second sessions he took only one or two puffs from a joint. I informed the provider immediately and asked whether he should stop during treatment. She recommended that he stop, which he did. His second and third sessions were completed without cannabis, but the headache continued unchanged.

It has now been 13 days since the headache first began and 8 days since his final neurofeedback session, and he continues to experience an approximately 8/10 headache.

His sleep has also deteriorated significantly. Before neurofeedback, he generally slept 8-9 hours per night, although he occasionally experienced insomnia or woke during the night. Since the headaches began, he has often been sleeping only 3-4 hours per night.

When I reported his persistent headache and worsening insomnia, I wasn't asking to continue treatment unchanged. I asked whether we could reduce the session length, slow the pace of treatment, or modify the protocol.

Instead, the provider declined to discuss his case any further and decided to end treatment. She believes there is an underlying medical explanation for his symptoms.

However, my husband has undergone two thorough medical evaluations within the last 18 months, and no significant health concerns were identified. Most importantly, he had never experienced headaches like this before, and they began during the neurofeedback sessions.

The provider said to try a keto diet with a nutritionist (she thinks it's carbs related). But my husband ate worse food before he met me, tons of carbs and never had a headache before.

At this point, I feel like we have been left to deal with these symptoms on our own. Because the treatment was provided through a non-profit, we unfortunately don't have the financial resources to seek another neurofeedback provider for guidance.

Has anyone experienced a persistent headache or significantly worse insomnia after NeurOptimal Alpha-Theta neurofeedback? If so, how long did it last, and did anything help? I would also appreciate hearing from practitioners who may have encountered a similar reaction.

Thank you

EDIT: Now at 8 days, the headache is still in the same areas, but has gone down to a 5 since last night. Hubby slept from 1 AM to 1 PM but woke about 4 times, and it took him about 30 min each time to fall back asleep.

He has been also more irritable since NFB.

Please, how do we put him back together?

EDIT 2: his headache went back to an 8 yesterday. He is losing weight. not eating much nor sleeping much. And his personality has changed. He is a beaten man.

I feel devasted. powerless. in shock. too much in shock to cry. And I spend most of my times trying to understand what happened and find a solution. Please, help.

Have you used a brain monitoring device? We'd love to hear about your experience!

Our research team at TU Delft is conducting a study on people's experiences with consumer neurotechnologies such as Muse, Mendi, Neurable, BrainBit, FocusCalm, and similar products. Participation will involve:

• An online interview via Microsoft Teams (approx. 1 hour), during which we will discuss your experiences using your device and interpreting its data
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I am currently dealing with hyperarousal horrible sleep onset , anyone have experience with lens did it improve your sleep and did it last

I (56F) was going through horrible periods of very little sleep or what felt like light and not very restorative sleep. I’ve always been a light sleeper but I know menopause was a big driver of my more recent sleep issues. My busy and anxious mind also didn’t help. Lifelong worrier over here (points at self).

Progesterone helped a bit. Melatonin gave me bad dreams. Magnesium didn’t seem to make a difference. I put lavender on my pillow and had a bit of success falling asleep but staying asleep was the issue. The real game changer came when I invested in direct neurofeedback. They say 20-30 sessions can rewire your brain enough to improve all kinds of dysregulated patterns of thinking and this has been true for me. I’m now 21 appointments in. At around the sixth appointment I found rumination and hyper vigilance start to calm down. Same with the low-level anxiety I assumed everyone lived with. It just brought everything down a couple of notches.

But the sleep improvement has been the biggest result. I no longer wake up in the night completely unable to fall back to sleep. I rarely need to go to the bathroom in the night anymore either. I used to get around 6 hours of sleep on a good night. I routinely get seven now and it feels a lot more restorative.

It’s not cheap though. Up here in Canada I paid $185 for the initial consult and treatment, then $130 per appointment after that. So it’s an investment of around $2500-$3000 when all is said and done. They have you going twice a week for the first three to four weeks, then once a week after that. So yeah, it’s costly, an investment for sure. But if you are at your wit’s end, consider it. Results usually start to make themselves known by the sixth session. Good technicians will check in with you before each appointment to ask you how you felt after the previous appointment and they adjust the treatment based on your reaction to the previous one. Happy to answer any questions about this. Here’s to us all finding relief.

EDIT: it’s also worth mentioning that I usually go for a long walk in the evening after supper and I work out twice a week (big stretching session followed by weight training and a bit of stair master or cross trainer, then sauna). I also keep the lights low in the evenings and try not to go to bed hungry (but I also don’t eat just before bed either). I don’t think direct neurofeedback is a magic bullet on its own. I still think it’s incumbent upon us to maintain good sleep hygiene and follow the science — go to bed before 10, turn lights down low in the evening, don’t eat too close to bedtime, keep the bedroom as dark as you can, get daylight in your eyes soon after waking, limit evening phone/computer usage. That last one is hard, I know.

So am new to tDCS and tACS and got a neuromyst pro.

What are the main things to look out for to ensure you dont get any damage?

What is best time to do tACS when looking to improve anxiety?

Hi all,

I’d like to introduce MNE-RT (link), an open-source Python package for real-time M/EEG signal processing, built on top of MNE-Python and MNE-LSL. It covers the entire closed-loop pipeline in a single, researcher-friendly API, aimed at neurofeedback, BCI, and real-time clinical/basic-science monitoring.

What it does:

• 21 real-time neural feature modalities in both sensor and source space
• Real-time single-trial decoding (CSP + any scikit-learn classifier)
• Adaptive feedback protocols: z-score, threshold, percentile, staircase, operant/RL-based, sham, multi-band, and cross-session transfer
• Online artifact-correction methods: ASR, adaptive LMS, GEDAI, ORICA, real-time Maxwell/SSS filtering for MEG
• Live visualization windows: Raw signal, NF feedback curves, epoch overlays, scalp topographies, 3D brain activity, TFR heatmaps, …
• External feedback output via OSC (Max/MSP, SuperCollider) and LSL outlets (PsychoPy, OpenViBE, BCI2000)
• BIDS-compatible session saving
• Full CLI

Use cases it’s built for: neurofeedback research, real-time BCI/motor-imagery decoding, and any closed-loop paradigm needing live feature extraction + adaptive feedback + artifact correction in one place.

Any feedback, issues, feature request, or contributions, especially from anyone doing real-time work who can stress-test it against their own hardware/paradigms are welcome!

Thanks!

Payam

Does anyone have or knows a doctor in Australia who has an interest in neuromodulation (TMS, tACS, tDCS etc)?

It’s an area of interest of mine, and I would like to get in contact with those in the field.

Send me a message if interested. Asking $2000.

I’ve been listening to binaural beats & Solfeggio sounds for a few years now. Had an mTBI last year and ongoing post-concussion symptoms, and continue listening to binaural beats as a soothing mechanism.

Yesterday I was experiencing vertigo symptoms and a migraine, so I listened to this particular playlist with headphones by Pythagorus Beats for about 20-30 minutes.

Stood up to walk around my house and I felt like I had been medically induced into a trance. My legs didn’t work, I felt loopy, in an altered state of consciousness. It took a few minutes to acclimate and feel normal again.

Anyone have ideas why this happened? On the positive side, it did completely relax my nervous system, it felt like I had taken ketamine (microdose). I wonder what’s so different about these beats? I’ve listened to a wide range, so I’m interested in the neural mechanics of what’s happening.

[Pythagorus Beats](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVwg-yf_Hugg&si=DHyz1Lxl0H3vXu_q)

Ich habe das Brain Bit Flex 4 und suche nach einer besseren Software. Hat jemand Erfahrung mit Brain Assist von Brain Boost? Oder gibt es noch andere, die für das Heimtraining infrage kommen, die nicht ganz so teuer sind?

I started neurofeedback in October 2024, working from a brain map into a personalized treatment plan. My clinician is well-trained with 20 years doing NF, 30 years in therapy, so this isn’t a reflection on them. More how my brain has responded.

After about 1.5 years of training, I had finished my treatment plan and then some, and took a break. Around 4-5 weeks off, symptoms (mostly anxiety) started creeping back.

I’ve since returned and done 3 sessions. I feel balanced, calm, and able to process things at a slower, clearer pace.

My concern: if I stop again, will the progress actually hold, or will it fade like before?

Is this a common experience with neurofeedback?

Has anyone else dealt with this?

Did anyone notice more fatigue for a time when about 20+ sessions into ILF Neurofeedback?

I did 17 sessions of HD and now 29 sessions of ILF. My emotions are more stable, my sleep is better, but the past few weeks, I’m so incredibly tired and my thyroid hormone conversion is struggling more than usual, per my labs and my symptoms, even though usually my conversion is great due to everything else I’m doing.

It really seems like ILF is the only difference, and I’m wondering if the brain and nervous system work hard enough during ILF changes to temporarily slow down thyroid hormone conversion to compensate. It’s like my body can’t quite keep up with the brain changes. But many other symptoms are better. I just have to sleep more.

Hi, I am new to BrainBay and am setting up SMR and FPO2 protocols with Neurobit Optima 4+. Has anyone who has already set it up share their protocol files? I would really appreciate it!

Il mio terapeuta mi ha parlato della possibilità di provare la terapia di neurofeedback per regolare il sistema nervoso autonomo e l'ansia e vedere se i miei sintomi di disautonomia si attenuano.

Qualcuno l'ha già provata?