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Alpha Brainwave CD induced No caffeine |
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Drug induced alpha |
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Theta brainwave induced CD No caffeine |
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Brain wave test |
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What are brain Waves? These are brain waves. Electrical signals that are recorded from the brain. You have 4 kinds of brain waves Bata, Alpha, Theta and Delta Beta is waves that happen when you are wide awake and quick to activate. (Jumpy) Alpha you have 2 levels high alpha and low alpha both are good. Think of a basketball player moving jumping making the right moves to get the ball. They are in the zone. Theta meditative or dreamy state much like when you fell when daydreaming looking out of a window in a boring class room. Delta you have 2 levels also here sleep state and deep sleep or rim dreaming. As I understand it, the prefect state is between the Alpha and Theta
Alpha is brain activity that tells you to get up get going do the work and go go go. Theta is the artist creative idea maker.
Now I am reading about the Da Vinci Method… As a ADD/ADHD myself it’s hard for me to understand stuff like this and I have to learn by doing. So I am doing this test on me to see how my brain waves affect my art. |
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Note on Brainwave drug induced alpha using caffeine ex.
I started with a line drawing I have traced over a photo in paint-shop I though it would be best to have the entire brainwave test to be given the same problem. What is the problem? A very boring line tracing of this face. What will my brain do to solve this problem under different Dominant EEG Frequency? I needed some Frequency to hear so I found this program called Mind Voyage. This had many CD so I choose the ones with just Sound frequency with no voices. The CD sound like waves of water with thumping sounds. The sound moves form one ear to the other I don’t know the ways and what for, but I do know I feel something changes in my head when I listen to the sounds.
So day one morning I get up as I do ever day.. go get my coffee. Set down to my pc and check emails. Write to my family and just wait tell my coffee kicks in to start my work. Takes me about 30 min to one hour to really start drawing and even so I find myself not focusing on the drawing. Drawing a little.. As I seem to look around to find things to do clean house, surf, play video games online.. and drawing at the same time.. I do this for 2 days and give up.
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Note on Brainwave induced alpha using mind voyage series 3 ex March 1, 2007. I read more form the book and I seem to really want to do this project to see what my brain will do. Trying to understand how these brainwave affect me and how I can control them.
The morning starts as always and I really want a coffee … but I want to try this drug free… I start the CD... in like 2 min my eyes open I look down and start to work, I feel really good I paint in the shirt with water color let it dry. I often get up and go do things wash a few dishes clean the house but I come back to the drawing quickly. Using my color pencil to shade just going… not even thinking, “is that the right color is that the good technique to put here or there just doing it, To my surprise I was finished in 2 hours and 5 min. However I did have a headache I know my body when it does not get caffeine I will suffer a nasty headache so after the drawing was finished I did make a cup of coffee to stop the headache… To my surprise when I set the 2 drawing next to each other I could not believe my eyes...
What a big deference not in the fact I did finish in a short time but the detail I used and just nice over all shade and technique. To understand something about the 2 drawing is I did not learn anything new about how to use paint or pencil technique the skill was already in my head I just used what I already knew. Even in the caffeine drugged drawing hints of nice technique but just not fully pulled out. When my husband came home and I showed him the 2nd drawing all he could say is wow; where did that come form. After this I went back and looked at alot of my portraits I have done in the past. I seem to have done this light handed technique on all of them and not really finished any of them. I need to go back and retouch them up… |
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Note on Theta Brainwave ex. This was very odd to start for me. As I did for the other 2 drawing I started out with a Line Drawing same as the drug induce (caffeine) and Alpha induce CD drawing. The more I looked at the lines the more I seem to space out and I began to look for stuff like my pencil, pencil sharpener, fiddling round not doing anything really. The more I spaced out the less words I could here around me and at one time I started the drawing with a colored pencil (like always) but some where in time I must have pick up the paint brush and worked in water color. I really tried to write down what I was doing as I was drawing this 3nd picture but when I look back at the words they make no sense at 1st glance I think its important to tell what I wrote. 1st line (Niha theta BW sers IV) I think this line means what I was hearing…. 2nd line (I feel funny in the frou par of my head. MY nose tegels ) telling you how I feel. 3nd line (I keep looking for things to use hard to begin). And that’s all was written down nothing after that. And a time laps I begain at 11.00 and when I looked at the clock to let the paint dry it was 11.45. my desks is a mess, PC screen was in energy save mode, I don’t remember even looking at the photo to paint this one… my screen saver comes on after 15 min then after 15 more min my energy saver kicks in, so I know for at less 15 min I did not even look at the photo on my screen, could be longer. 1st impressions of the (painting) its not a drawing now: I don’t like it .
It looks crazy, colors I never use like that. And the eyes are all wrong.
Now I go shopping I need to buy food for the house.. as I was walking to the store My head felt light headed maybe a little dizzy however I was really enjoying the walk with my son. And began to think about my painting. Thinking you know the way I painted that shirt was pretty cool looking and the color on that hat was striking. I’ll go back in to the theta zone and see what my subconscious is trying to tell me, maybe its telling me my drawings are boring I laughed to myself. Back to the paint I go, I really cannot wait to began again eager to see what becomes of this colorful mess. As I began I look at the clock 2:15 now I set the photo up again and turn on my CD theta Brainwaves again I feel myself going quick to the zone I look at the clock again its 2:48 I have a strong pulling in me to finishing it up with pencil like the way I do normally. But then my experiment will not be right I was to draw form the Theta zone only.. oh will
Looking at all 3 drawings / painting I see a very big difference in them so I know something is really going on in my brain. The 3 nd one using Theta brainwaves looks odd to me but I see some technique I would like to use with my 2nd drawing the way I painted the shirt the use of color really caught my eye. The hair seems odd at 1st but after looking at it for along time I see where I could use this technique also. So in conclusion the information form your book seems to be right on the money. The Theta mental state seems to give me ideas on how I could make my drawing more alive with color and some different paint technique mixed with my pencil. Maybe I should draw a 4th with the 2 techniques mixed up see what happens
will you can see what happen, I used the idea I got form the 3rd drawing mix it with the 2nd drawing and I have found my self at ah… I used the water color technique form the painting 3 and then colored over it with colored pencil as I always do. After this test on myself I am a firm believer that what state the brain is in will show the out come of an artist work. Now some can say, “will dam you drew It 4 time had to get it right sooner or later”... that could be a good argument but if you are a true artist I know you have tried doing things over and over hoping to have that magic pop out soon or later and in the end fail to get what you were looking for. I hope this test can help someone find their magic too thanks for reading this. ;=)
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