A father of Colorado helps break the cycle for those who have problems with a new association sleeping people sleep and monitors your brain...
A father of Colorado helps break the cycle for those who have problems with a new association sleeping people sleep and monitors your brainwaves helps by an application.
Michael Larson, Colorado Springs, ABC News said that ideas such as Brainstorming Jessica close most people her eyes to help after his daughter was diagnosed with narcolepsy there for three years.
His device, sleep Pastor, raised $ 830,000 through crowdfunding and are approximately retailed.
"People have taken regularly a chemical solution to sleep," Larson, 54, an engineering professor at the University of Colorado, said. "We really did not like that sleep to estimate an effect on quality of life, such as exercise and diet. I did not know much about sleep or until he was diagnosed my daughter. It was very enlightening."
When her daughter, Jessica, 17 years was in high school, Larson said he started trouble staying awake him in class.
He took Jessica to a number of doctors before being diagnosed with narcolepsy - a neurological disorder that can send a signal to the brain of a person to sleep at the same time, against his will.
"In addition to daytime sleepiness and uncontrollable sleep episodes, most people also experience poor sleep quality, sleep frequent awakenings during the night and can sleep other include," National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke disease (NINDS) on its website. They also said that people with narcolepsy sleep no more during a period of 24 hours of sleep normally, contrary to popular belief.
Jessica Larson began taking medication to help him sleep, so he could provide more continuous sleep at night. But the side effect was loss of appetite and do not eat properly. Soon he was for malnutrition at the hospital, his father said.
"As for the suffering of a sleep disorder, I began to learn," Larson said. "I was a member of the Research Society on the sofa and I began to understand the role of the brain during sleep. I realized that when I was looking for a non-pharmaceutical solution for sleep, to find a way, had the brain to help slow down. "
The Dream Of The Shepherd In 2015, he successfully developed the dream Shepherd Larson - a hat dream home that monitors brain waves and helps you fall asleep quickly developed fall through the use of binaural beats or audio by some other sounds in the pipeline creates illusions each ear.
The new Larson Unit, Blue Dream minister, now the Bluetooth feature so that users keep track of your sleep patterns, including the brain wave data, motion events and time spent in each sleep position (left side, right side, back).
The headband is constructed with thin speakers, sounds deliver the low frequency at each ear, produce binaural beats.
Larson said that the tones allow the brain to be stopped so that a person sleeps may be easier, and if regulated, sleeps stay longer.
"Binaural Beats, the illusion, in the presence of a sound is from left to right moved, generated" Larson said. "An analogy is that people can see how hypnosis, there is a pocket that comes and goes."
Since the oscillating clock, sleep of Shepherd with the brain engage in the binaural beats from the loudspeakers of the hanger to follow play.
This in turn will slow down the brainwaves and help a person sleep, Larson said.
The smartphone application with the tire is connected, also provides access to an alarm function, which reproduces the blows in the opposite direction and to facilitate the exit of a deep sleep.
"It helps you wake up refreshed instead of being awakened by an alarm," Larson said.
The Dream Of The Shepherd Sensor in front of the headband (EEG medical grade sensors was compared) to measure the brain activity level of a person and sends the information to the application, the control again as they play to induce sound sleep.
"I think that it is necessary for it to know effective bio-feedback to how deep the dream of a person, and we know when the tones are disabled."
After raising more than half a million dollars combined Kickstarter and IndieGoGo began Larson shepherds sleep in retail stores sold.
He is now $ 249 asking for the unit, or $ 199 on Indiegogo.com, are sent to multiple channels, including buttonholes, Sharper Image, Brookstone and Best Buy stores.
The Dream Of The Shepherd Previously Larson sold 8500 combined hats and headbands Bluetooth.
However, Larson wants customers to know the device can take one or two nights to be adapted for one person.
"There is clearly a lot of people for a non-drug solution looking to help her sleep," Larson said. "I do not want anyone lead you astray. The effect is overwhelming not know where the hat on and suddenly you're unconscious. The effect is hypnotic, like all hypnotic effect that you really get your attention. Hypnotic susceptibility varies from person enter to person. "
Larson said he was convinced that his daughter Jessica, who was the first person to use the machine, slept with her every night for over a year.
"I am very worried about her," he said. "I love it. I think that it is in a place at 20 [where] they want to help people who are suffering in the same situation from the situation. It has done for her great things."
