Muse: The Brain Sensing Headband
$236.55
Muse is your personal meditation assistant. While you meditate, Muse measures whether your mind is calm or active, and translates that data into weather sounds. When you’re calm, you’ll hear peaceful weather sounds. When your mind wanders, the weather will intensify, guiding you back to a calm state. After each session, review your data, set goals, and build a deeply rewarding meditation practice that gets better every time.
MEDITATION MADE EASY: Muse is your personal meditation assistant by providing EEG based real-time neurofeedback, allowing you to take the guesswork out of your meditation practice
MUSE WILL GUIDE YOU TO A CALM MIND: Sometimes your mind is calm and sometimes it’s active – Muse will teach you to recognize a calm mind and help you get there
IMMERSE YOURSELF: Put on the Muse headband, plug in your earbuds or headphones, start the app, and close your eyes. Immerse yourself within the sounds of a beach or rainforest via the Muse App on iOS or Android
MUSE TEACHES FOCUSED ATTENTION MEDITATION: When you’re calm, you’ll hear peaceful weather sounds. When your mind wanders, the weather will intensify, guiding you back to a calm state
REAL-TIME TRACKING & FEEDBACK: While you meditate, Muse measures whether your mind is calm or active, and translates that data into weathers sounds
REVIEW DATA AFTER EACH SESSION: After each session, review your data, set goals, and build a deeply rewarding meditation practice that gets better every time
USER INFO & GUIDES: Kindly refer to the User Manual, FAQs, and Tech Specs for additional information and product details
LIMITED 1 YEAR WARRANTY: Manufacturer warranty valid only if product is Shipped & Sold by Amazon – no other retailer is authorized by manufacturer to sell through Amazon
Muse is your personal meditation assistant
Sometimes your mind is calm and sometimes it’s active. Muse will guide you to a calm mind
Put on the Muse headband, put on your earbuds, start the app, and close your eyes. Immerse yourself within the sounds of a beach or rainforest.
While you meditate, Muse measures whether your mind is calm or active, and translates that data into weathers sounds.
When you’re calm, you’ll hear peaceful weather sounds. When your mind wanders, the weather will intensify, guiding you back to a calm state.
After each session, review your data, set goals, and build a deeply rewarding meditation practice that gets better every time.
Kindly refer to the User Manual, FAQs, and Tech Specs for more information.
Muse is a sensitive device and it requires good contact with your skin to detect your brain signals.
7 reviews for Muse: The Brain Sensing Headband
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Photoguy –
Very useful and precise device that has changed my life considerably.
Update Oct 10:The longer I am using it, the more I like it. I have now done over 100 sessions with it. One effect it had on me is that I am now mediating twice a day with it, while I used to only mediate once a day before. I sit now early in the morning around 8:00 for 15 or 20 minutes, and then around 9:30 in the evening. I sometimes also meditate without it during the day at work, but these two meditations in the morning and the evening have become a well-loved fixture in my life. And because it really helps you to get these Alpha waves going for extended periods, you will actually start craving meditation. I am very grateful to the folks at Muse!Update on Sep. 2, 2018:Have been using it for more than two weeks now. In addition to what said below, I want to reiterate what others have remarked on the calibration: If you are really relaxed during calibration, it might be overly sensitive and pick up on every little distraction. If you’re fidgety and nervous or just think a lot during calibration, it might end up too generous and not pick up on the smaller distractions. So, it is definitely worth paying attention to the calibration and your respective status, otherwise you may end up with an inadequate calibration.I have been using the Muse Headband for a bit more than a week now and I am mostly rather enthusiastic about it. There are some issues with it, too, which I will discuss later, as they are actually a blessing in disguise. So, first the unproblematic positives:First of all, I am highly impressed with the bio-feedback qualities of this device. Using it for meditation is like doing meditation under a magnifying glass: You understand much more precisely when you’re in a truly quiet state and when you’re getting distracted. It also helps you (due to the feedback) to get very quickly into a quiet state, something I earlier only experienced during silent retreats.Second, you learn much more precisely to react to distractions. I have had times in meditation where I got distracted and stayed in that distracted state fairly long, as I was missing a “warning system” that would pull me out. With the Muse Headband, you get a pretty quick response to your distraction and after a bit of adjustment, you can actually react immediately, so that you’re not even getting into a state of major distraction.Third, it allows you to distinguish much better between the meditating/observing mind and the thoughts that come up. It really helps you to stay neutral and non-judgemental towards these thoughts and just let them come and go. I have been doing regular (usually daily) meditation for the past 3 years, and did it less regularly before that, so I am fairly experienced. However, while I never had much of a problem getting into a relaxed, calm stat of mind, I often had trouble to remain aware and to distinguish my awareness from the observed thoughts without getting involved in these thoughts and thus getting distracted. The Muse Headband helps in creating awareness of and distance to potentially distracting thoughts, thus effectively preventing you from getting distracted by them.Finally, I also feel that using this device makes it much more easy to meditate regularly and more than once a day. The combination of the immediate feedback, the reward system, and the documented brainwave output makes it rather attractive to use the device — yes, we’re easy to please creatures :-). In any case, it has (so far) helped me to increase my meditation frequency and duration.For these three points alone, I feel like my meditation practice has been advanced tremendously in a very short amount of time.Now for the issues that complicate things:One issue that other reviewers have brought up, too, is that the device does not always catch distracted thinking. In fact, if you think very concrete, individual thoughts in an otherwise calm state of mind, it will likely interpret these thoughts as concentration, not as distraction, even though these thoughts can be fairly distracting. For instance, if you think “it is going to be interesting how this looks like on the brainwave diagram” during a calm state, it will not react to it. And you can draw out such concrete thoughts without the Muse Headband identifying them as distraction, as long as you stay focused on them and keep your calm state. I guess this has to do with the fact that such thoughts are very specific and concentrated. Some reviewer mentioned that doing puzzles can have this result, too, which is unsurprising because you’re concentrating a lot when you’re doing a puzzle.On the other hand, the system is extremely sensitive towards cognitive “background noise,” i.e. unfocused daydreaming and drifting of thoughts, as well as emotional reactions or visual imagery (as long as they are not focused, of course). This sensitivity has actually been very valuable for me, because I was not too aware of how much cognitive “background noise” I am producing and how deeply this can interfere with a calm state of mind. I always focused much more on the individual, focused thoughts, which are much easier to identify. So, while the device is not much of a help in catching these individual, focused thoughts, it reliably catches the background noise, which is ultimately much more disruptive, provided you’re sufficiently aware of your concrete thoughts.This means: If you want a device that helps you directly to become aware of your concrete, focused thoughts during meditation, then the Muse Headband is not much of a help, as it won’t react to them, unless they are accompanied by less focused background noise (which, by the way, happens usually relatively quickly when you follow those thoughts, as you’ll start daydreaming about them!). However, the system is extremely helpful in creating awareness of your background noise and imagery, which often go undetected in “unsupported” meditation sessions.Moreover, one indirect effect this has is that it not only raises your awareness of cognitive background noise, it also helps in isolating the concrete, focused thoughts from the background noise, so that you will be much more aware of those focused thoughts as distractions. This is, then, how the device can help you indirectly to also control the focused thoughts.While this may seem a bit complicated and hard to follow, my experience in the actual meditation is that it is very clear and obvious, not least because the device helps to you be more detached from your own thinking that you normally are. Maybe that’s not a problem other meditators have and it is only my individual issue. But for me, the Muse Headband has been a real eye-opener and an incredibly helpful device, as it has put my mind under the microscope.I also want to add that I have absolutely no connection problems or pairing issues. For me, the device has been working just wonderfully.I do share the concerns of other reviewers that it is not clear from the output you get on the app what type of brainwaves are being recorded, and how the system interprets them. At some point, I might look more deeply into that (and, as others have mentioned, there are apps that help you to get the raw data instead of the interpreted ones). For now, however, I am simply very happy to have a device that supports and improves my meditation practice dramatically. Obviously I will need to see how it plays out in the long run. I will add updates to this review at a later point.
Blackstar –
Excellent consumer neurofeedback tool, as long as you your needs are simple
I have been waiting for an affordable, reliable neurofeedback device for a very long time. I’ve had Muse for a few months now, and I am very happy with both the headband and the Calm app. Seriously, before tools like Muse and neurosky, your only real option was biofeedback or expensive sessions in a neurofeedback clinic. This is a disruptive product from that standpoint.I’m a long-time meditator — longer time than I care to say actually. I’ve got a pretty hectic life (as I’m sure everyone else does…) and I find that sometimes it takes me the majority of my meditation session just to calm down enough to focus. This is especially true in the evenings, after a demanding work day. I was concerned that Muse wouldn’t be much benefit to a veteran psychonaut like myself, but I was wrong.Set up went flawlessly (I’m running it on an iPhone 6) and I settled in for my first session. Muse uses audio feedback to help you track your degree of calmness. Once you get accustomed to the set of sounds, I find it to be a pretty effective process — clear, but not overly obtrusive. What I find most valuable is the constant feedback — when meditating traditionally it is easy to drift for a few moments before realizing it is happening. With Muse, however, the feedback is obvious and instantaneous and that makes it very simple to train your attention.My first sessions (typically 12 or 20 minutes) showed me to be about 70% calm. After a month of regular training with Muse, I typically finish a session between 85 – 93% calm, so there has been measurable improvement.Now, if this sort of a simple, contained device is what you are looking for then Muse is a fantastic option. If, however, you are wanting to engage in more advanced EEG activities, develop a 3rd party application, etc. then you may want to consider looking elsewhere — at least for now. Companies like Emotiv and Neorosky who have been at this longer than Interaxon have solid developer communities, and therefore you will find many 3rd party apps built to take advantage of their hardware. Not so with Muse, which is a real shame. For example, I have used brainwave entrainment software from Transparent Corp. for years. Their Mind Workstation program will work with many, many EEG protocols to enable EEG driving and other activities that GREATLY enhance the utility of hardware from Emotiv, NeuroSky and others. There’s no reason that Interaxon can’t take the same path with Muse, and I sincerely hope that they do. I am guessing, however, that their focus is squarely on offering a simple and polished consumer product for the mass market rather than catering to those of us on the consumer fringe or in the professional neurofeedback space.Take that distinction into account if you’re on the fence regarding a purchase: if you want a well designed piece of hardware with a solid companion app to help you train your concentration, then I really feel that Muse is top of the heap for now (we’ll see how Emotiv’s Insight looks if it would ever launch…). If you have loftier ambitions and need to use your hardware with 3rd party apps, you will be mightily disappointed with the current state of Muse — Interaxon has a long way to go to build the sort of developer community that some of their competitors have, and from current indications this may not be a corporate priority for them.So, as a standalone product the headband is comfortable, the app is simple and well-designed, and I have found it to be a really enjoyable and effective tool for relaxation and concentration training. My only minor suggestions are:* Design a better travel case — the current one is way too large to conveniently fit in a backpack or carry on.* Improve the Bluetooth implementation. My whole family would like to use Muse, but to use it with another mobile device, you have to forget the one you’re paired too — way inconvenient. It employs a Bluetooth spec that supports multiple connections memory, so i hope that they will be rolling that out at some point.* Get serious about the quality of your SDK and the openness of the standards that you employ if you want to win the favor of 3rd party developers.
Tim from AU –
This is a great motivator – Following progress of streaks on the App over the long term. And in the short term, hearing birds or noise keeps me on track.
jess –
buen producto llevo dos semanas usandolo, estaria genial q estuviera en español, pero si es facil de entender, te ayuda a ser constante en las meditacion, ademas de los premios q te da y las estadisticas que llevas cuando tu mente esta tranquila, le dudaba en comprarlo, pero si hice una buena compra. trae guias por deepak chopra eso me motiva mas. saludos
Fpi –
Appareil très utile car on peut suivre le resultat des séances de meditation sur internet et l’interface donne des conseils.
Giovanni –
Lo utilizzo da un paio di mesi, con App su Samsung S7. Pairing senza problemi e funzionamento del software senza intoppi. Il prodotto, per un tempo prefissato, associa una traccia audio che dipende dal tuo livello di concentrazione, determinato da sensori elettro-encefalografici. E’ necessaria una calibrazione di riferimento preliminare, di qualche decina di secondi. Dopo sono disponibili varie statistiche della sessione. Un sistema di addestramento mentale mediante feedback forse tecnico ma interessante e gestibile in piena autonomia. Sono disponibili vari livelli di tutorial: il parlato è tutto in inglese, scandito e ben intellegibile.
Bikachen –
mit diesem Gerät habe ich das gefunden was ich schon länger suchte: ein einfach zu tragen und zu bedienendes Gerät zur Visualisierung der Hirn-Wellen die aus dem Mehrkanal EEG mathematisch über eine FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) in 5 signifikante Frequenzbereichr extrahiert werden. Auch die CALM- App (für Tablett) ist empfehlenswert, sie hat allerdings (noch?) nicht so vielseitige Möglichkeiten zum exportieren der Ergebnisse wie die MUSE Monitor App. Beispiele der Messungen siehe […] oder auf facebook.com