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@grigoriymaltsev
December 6, 2024 at 4:06 pm
cannot wait for the next episode. no, for real.
@alphaomega4968
December 6, 2024 at 4:07 pm
😂 supermind !!!!
@yojalata
December 6, 2024 at 4:09 pm
$500 asmr
@Mantis24513
December 6, 2024 at 4:31 pm
I don’t have any photosensitivity so I should be prefectly fine to look at …. GOOD LORD WHAT IS HAPPENING?
@aL3891_
December 6, 2024 at 4:45 pm
and they’re selling a course now.. im _shocked_
its an interesting story but these are clearly just snake oil salesmen
i’m a huge fan of Kevin and Matt but i feel the lads took all these claims a bit too much at face value and didn’t challenge them enough
@mikes333
December 6, 2024 at 4:45 pm
So, is VSauce2 over and done with now?
@robertkerr4199
December 6, 2024 at 4:57 pm
I remember seeing these ads but I always assumed they were just a scam and skipped the page. Times really have not changed..
*So I’ve actually had a near death experience and that was nothing like it.
@Nmethyltransferase
December 6, 2024 at 5:27 pm
PCP/GP: “Why do you want a neurologist’s referral for photogenic epilepsy? That seems oddly specific. Why do you believe you have it?”
Me: “Well…”
@benmcreynolds8581
December 6, 2024 at 6:00 pm
I couldn’t help but think: “All of that, just for some flickering red lights & some trippy sounds?? Ok..” (I do believe we are advancing in Brain tech. Such as those helmets that can interact with your brain using magnetic frequencies 🧲 🧠)
@BearMeat4Dinner
December 6, 2024 at 6:09 pm
It would be cool to try this on shrooms or acid..
@BrettOPediaTV
December 6, 2024 at 6:34 pm
Honestly? I didn’t find it too awful. It’s kinda like white noise, where it basically helps you imagine and relax and fall asleep. It really is all about your level of placebo that you want to self impose 😂
@Cooe.
December 6, 2024 at 8:03 pm
Binaural audio brainwave adjustment is actually much more than placebo. It definitely works. We’ve scientifically proven people’s brainwaves will sync to match the frequency difference between what the two ears are hearing. But all it will do is make you feel generally relaxed, excited, sleepy, etc… based on the brainwaves you’re syncing with. 🤷 It won’t get you “high”, it won’t make you learn anything, etc etc…
@maplebob23
December 6, 2024 at 6:46 pm
I had this!
@TommyCrosby
December 6, 2024 at 6:59 pm
I know Kung-Fu.
@maplebob23
December 6, 2024 at 7:04 pm
Science is rooted in religion too.
@michaelmaguire4147
December 6, 2024 at 7:16 pm
Disingenuous shilling of an AI product, while not disclosing that it is an AI product. Goodbye.
@Cooe.
December 6, 2024 at 8:01 pm
Everything’s got AI in it nowadays. If you’re blanket anti-AI stop complaining like a hypocritical loser and stop using the Internet & modern computers. 🤷 Literally every modern major website and operating system has some form of AI integration.
@13orrax
December 6, 2024 at 7:30 pm
i remember wanting this thing so bad
@ThePsylopAt
December 6, 2024 at 7:34 pm
Very interesting! Thanks for the video
@UVClay
December 6, 2024 at 7:38 pm
Those sigma male affirmations videos probably hit different if you have the SuperMind glasses on.
@Cooe.
December 6, 2024 at 7:50 pm
Binaural audio adjustment of brainwaves definitely works (it’s stupid easy to prove with just a ton of electrodes stuck to someone’s head to measure said brainwaves) but all it can do is adjust general brain state. Aka help make you relaxed, excited, sleepy, etc… It has absolutely NOTHING to do with subconscious learning or any other such nonsense. The efforts to use the same technology to get people “high” (iDoser) were also basically complete nonsense. 🤷
This is a very real technology being MASSIVELY improperly marketed and described to potential customers. It can help you meditate or fall asleep, but it’ll do absolutely NOTHING to help you learn a foreign language lol.
@catherinebaldwin6580
December 6, 2024 at 7:50 pm
Oh ga oh ga oh ga. Ow…. I technically have epliepsy. But I have been able to watch every “epliepsy warning” video exept the porygon episode. Oh ga. … Okay I’m okay. How does this exist?! I don’t know if this came out before or after the porygon episode, but Still! Did people not think photo senstivity was a thing in the 90s?
@luxvenus
December 6, 2024 at 8:01 pm
of course this was from Redmond, WA
@DustinRodriguez1_0
December 6, 2024 at 8:04 pm
Wait a fookin minute… they claimed the glasses could help you transform into a whale? WTF? Is that a desire the public is begging to see fulfilled? Oh, also, as someone who held a security clearance for decades… if someone tells you they worked on a Top Secret government or military project, that is how you know they’re lying. Your obligations to protect that fact, ESPECIALLY anything that you DID while in that program, extend well beyond you leaving that project or its termination or whatnot. Things get automatically declassified after 50 years in most cases, and stuff can be declassified earlier by the government, but other than that, you can be prosecuted if you go around spilling classified info (that’s literally what it’s called, a “spill”).
And you didn’t even talk about whether or not it does the one concrete thing that it was supposed to do – can it actually predictably aid in entering into alpha/beta/delta/etc wave brain modes? Those things are real, and can be measured with EEGs, even cheapo ones you can buy and wear like a sweatband (far fewer leads or resolution than anything used in research of course) and hook into your phone. Is it possible to influence the brain by feeding in tones and strobing the lights at the right frequencies? If you cooperate with it, I mean, and don’t just judge the sound as troublesome and the lights as annoying.
@Juttutin
December 6, 2024 at 8:15 pm
There’s a small Czech company called “Happy Electronics” who have a mask and Android app called “Mindroid” and/or “Mind Machine” that is basically the same thing with a lot less of the woo-woo marketing. I think something like 75 USD.
@freethinkradio
December 6, 2024 at 8:21 pm
They had one of these at the Nexxus rave back in the early 90’s in Montreal.. They called it “The Mind Machine”.. It was in a soundproof pod with 4 or 5 other seats and i think it was like
$10 to sit in there and chill for 20 min or something like that..
@tornhubTV
December 6, 2024 at 8:24 pm
Someone had something like this at a rave one time and they told me to put it on but didn’t tell me I needed to close my eyes and I feel like I just burned holes in my eyeballs
@monstrositylabs
December 7, 2024 at 6:01 am
I used one of these in the 90’s 🙂
@lorddorker3703
December 7, 2024 at 6:02 am
The near death experience reminds me of the hard to find movie BRAINSTORM. Maybe it was the inspiration for the product?
@923EON
December 7, 2024 at 6:06 am
This is almost something you’d see on the film “Total Recall”
@ye_wonker
December 7, 2024 at 7:41 am
i think at least a few videogames i have played have been inspired by all this crap: receiver 1&2, where you achieve enlightenment (and train your “mindtech”) by listening to tapes and also use sensory deprivation tanks. then there is hypnospace outlaw, where you browse internet circa 1999 in your sleep by use of a high tech headband
@davep5698
December 7, 2024 at 7:59 am
Omelette du fromage
@MichaelReyes-c7x
December 7, 2024 at 8:22 am
The movie lawn mower
@davep5698
December 7, 2024 at 8:26 am
The best thing about a virtual campus is, you can really see yourself going there. 😁
@tokin420nchokin
December 7, 2024 at 8:49 am
Now I see where the inspiration for pit vipers came from
@DarthVader-ch4um
December 7, 2024 at 8:51 am
Bruh
@martinbaxter2616
December 7, 2024 at 10:33 am
(cough cough cough)
BULLS’ HIT!
@xXBLAKGOATXx
December 7, 2024 at 11:14 am
Wait im confused did you name your channel after a magazine that chopped full of bullshit or are you tied to it bc you kinda got everyone questioning your credibility and decency going forward 1:35
@randallclemons8638
December 7, 2024 at 11:26 am
Dude, make a half hour video of that flashing light with sound. The deepest level. I would actually like to use my phone with my cheap VR headset and try that. put a warning on it. But you would probably get a lot of plays from people who want to experiment. I’d seriously like to check that out and see what happens. You can’t blame some for being curious. You said it worked on some. You’re not selling anything. Just an experiment. I would greatly appreciate it. And if you already have, shoot me a link.
@randallclemons8638
December 7, 2024 at 11:33 am
Second comment. The reason I would like to try it, is just out of curiosity. I’d like to see what happens. And even though it is nuts, the us government and CIA actually tried these experiments for years. Whether it s bunk of not, the fact they did it, did it for decades, and true. The men who stare at goats. Lol hahaha I forget the name of that project. It was people like Info Swan. Don’t know how to spell his name. And others. Some of these guys got assassinated. It only ended after Jimmy Carter accidently let it slip in the 90s. And that is exactly how they described doing it. So, make a half hour video of it. I would just like to see what happens. I’m not saying I believe. But I can’t really disbelieve either. Ubti I try it. I just got to the part where you are talking about the government research. Hahaha as you can see, I’ve heard about it before. Just curiosity. I’ve seen videos that say things like that. But I’ve never tried them . But that, I would like to try. That is exactly how they described doing it. So, id just like to check it out.
@randallclemons8638
December 7, 2024 at 11:37 am
And my comment about the reason they ended it because Jimmy Carter let it slip in the 90s. I just got your part in the video about that. Look into that. He was telling a story about how they actually found someone they were looking for, using that. That happened. Wold stuff. I’d just like to see what happens.
@armageddonsengineer3182
December 7, 2024 at 11:38 am
lol! Yeah, these sorts of things are VERY specific to the users. I rather enjoyed a few of the samples, but all those are very mood dependent. At best you might be able to put together a sort of generative organ/playscape in VR to adjust your mind state. Ideally you’d couple something like this with an fMRI, and work up a set of algorithms to a particular user. Otherwise, you might as well fiddle around with a $40 synthesizer and a set of music keyed LED strips until you get something that gets you in the zone.
@randallclemons8638
December 7, 2024 at 11:42 am
Ill give ya a tip though. You already know more about how it’s done than I do. But I do know if you do make that half hour video, you have to do it in VR mode. And the flashing frequencies and sound for the left and right, have to be offset. It has something to do with the the frequency of the left and right brain. But your motivation would be views for a…. Demonstration that makes no claims about anything. Could be done with a phone and VR headset. And ear buds. I would trust yours more than ii would this other stuff on YouTube. I know it sounds nuts but you have to understand my motivation and more than likely millions of others. Curiosity. Just let try it for myself. Like you did.
@orgiophant93
December 7, 2024 at 12:01 pm
6:58 I absolutely loved it
@stickmanrobert1949
December 7, 2024 at 12:48 pm
Bro when you showed that sample it was wild I stared to see things I wish it was longer I think I could work with these things
@danoconnell1833
December 7, 2024 at 2:46 pm
This sent me down a memory lane of my ‘journey into myself’ in my 20’s. From personal experience I can say that it’s not all bunk, and it’s also not what it’s hyped up to be. There are two things to understand: 1 The process of expanding one’s mind is eminently personal and can’t be broadcast; and 2 It is not without its dangers. In my opinion putting your mind under the control of someone’s machine is a serious mistake. It might work for you, or it might trigger something … unpleasant.
@jasonblalock4429
December 8, 2024 at 2:18 am
Yeah, back in the day I got into binaural beats – especially once I found a freeware program that could make the sound tones, which could then be laid under any other audio. There’s definitely something to basic concept, and it actually helped lead me towards more proper meditation by, I think, kind of ‘training’ my brain to enter that state more easily.
But I definitely doubt they did much more besides helping a person meditate.
@rattmcpossum
December 7, 2024 at 3:29 pm
My god my mates hippy dad made a version of this and just had them at raves and charged a few quid to let people have a go
Was acc insane on acid lol, was having full on music videos when played with music; you could move a dial for speed or intensity
Idk what came first, but this guy was from the 60s and I can totally imagine some guy going to a rave in the uk, and making a business out of it
@frogz
December 7, 2024 at 4:05 pm
this would be kinda cool to make videos of the full tracks, the flashing is easy enough on a bigscreen tv
@doogie812
December 7, 2024 at 4:15 pm
I concentrate on the tape hiss as the flashing LEDs drive my blood pressure to stratospheric heights. Suddenly one eye goes dark. A stroke? An aneurysm? Maybe an open circuit. As the EMT’s stabilize my condition we are left with only one conclusion. Throw that shit away.
@LegoDork
December 7, 2024 at 4:48 pm
This reminds me of Binaural beats. It was a program going around about 15 years ago. You needed their software and stereo headphones. The claim was it could replicate various drug experiences and physical sensations. I played with it for a bit, and it seemed to do something, sort of. You definitely felt a little weird after listening to 20 minutes of rhythmic gobbledygook.
@adamberndt4190
December 7, 2024 at 7:42 pm
2:48 No, it’s proof that someone wants to sell one, that doesn’t mean ANYONE is looking to buy one.
@morthim
December 7, 2024 at 7:58 pm
afaik the last 4 star general was named george washington.
@andymouse
December 7, 2024 at 8:48 pm
Would love to see inside the box of electronics.
@happyatheists9361
December 7, 2024 at 9:42 pm
What’s the difference between this and religion huh
@stephenmadl5609
December 7, 2024 at 11:15 pm
His idea for replicating sensory deprivation is to create sensory overload? Make it make sense 😂😂😂😂
@bmeht
December 8, 2024 at 1:19 am
Way to go, I’m sure they’re enjoying your free publicity.
@CandGoods
December 8, 2024 at 9:02 am
the main thing those soundscapes were bringing to mind for me was the slaughterhouse-soundscape that opens the title track of The Smiths’ “Meat Is Murder”.
@naomiwright4895
December 8, 2024 at 9:49 am
That was very interesting thank you
@NEKRWSPHERE
December 8, 2024 at 11:49 am
Don’t laugh at this thing! It made me learn 3 distinct dialects of Gibberish practically overnight, and now I’m the only correct practitioner of Gobbledygook Science left on the entire planet. On a serious note: if you get that intolerant reaction, – this is a very good sign. It means you are someone with whom this will work. It’s similar to how you will enjoy skydiving more if you have a fear of heights. It’s called Yerkes Dodson Curve in Behavioral Science. I had that reaction, and I learned to let go and totally relax my eyes. Then this really can induce visions. Of sorts. I think this is a psychedelic techno drug for those who are afraid to try pharmacological psychedelic drugs. Of course, we all know that all the cool dudes bought it for using WHILE UNDER the influence of psychedelic drugs. In that case I recommend120mcg LSD, a 60X Salvia Extract hit and a 12 minute glasses session 😂 Just kiddin’. Don’t do drugs, do Gobbledytech….Googledy….Nevermind
@Tom-cn4cm
December 8, 2024 at 12:22 pm
There was also an episode of Columbo that was about remote viewing and the military’s interest in it. It’s a good episode.
@burbank3
December 8, 2024 at 1:53 pm
that ending was CINEMATIC. thank you for another great strange interesting lesson in science’s unknown past.
@mossydog2385
December 8, 2024 at 3:06 pm
Want to achieve a higher consciousness? Meditation is free, and so are mushrooms if you know where to look for them.
@angelaavalon
December 8, 2024 at 7:13 pm
I used one of these at a tech fair back in the 90s. I really wanted to be more impressed than I was.
@chrisbarry9345
December 8, 2024 at 9:44 pm
I hope someone tries to ethically put science into this without making claims. There is something there. The gateway tapes are an example
@EeveeFromAlmia
December 9, 2024 at 7:12 am
There are actually a few mental states that this sort of tech can sync with the human brain! Too bad most of them are seizures
@EeveeFromAlmia
December 9, 2024 at 7:26 am
‘Remote viewing’ also know as ‘imagination’
@Kayaz48
December 9, 2024 at 11:21 am
I had to click out, I just couldn’t take that USED CAR SALESMAN VOOOOOOIIIICCEEEE!!!! BUY NOW
@FinnleysAudioAdventures
December 9, 2024 at 11:43 am
I think I saw this on an infomercial late night on USA network. But low key, I kind of want that cetacean one.
@KarldorisLambley
December 9, 2024 at 1:25 pm
red lights flashing before the eyes at up to 30Hz. what could go wrong? lol
@WellBeSerious12
December 9, 2024 at 2:24 pm
No South Park episode?
@sorinankitt
December 9, 2024 at 4:06 pm
Ok, why did the picture of the woman start with the picture of a young man to a woman
@TheGrinningViking
December 9, 2024 at 5:34 pm
Man it’s a bad idea to be on YouTube at all if you have epilepsy. Not all videos have warnings. Is it worth it, anyone out there who has epilepsy? The funny little videos in return for the risk of a stroke?
@AurenGlytterkat
December 12, 2024 at 6:20 pm
As someone (AuDHD) with a history of seizures- yes. It is.
Anything for the constant hits of dopamine that YouTube provides. 🤤
@Dorothy-p7h
December 9, 2024 at 9:08 pm
Thanks for the analysis! Just a quick off-topic question: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). What’s the best way to send them to Binance?
@jaytc3218
December 10, 2024 at 1:39 pm
So, I’m guess that those X-Ray Glasses in the back of those comic books and kids’ magazines weren’t legit? Is it too late to get a refund?
@Demonslayer-64
December 10, 2024 at 3:59 pm
I mean, we can do many things when we have control over our minds. I even think there’s a sense we killed that we once commonly had (or maybe some people still have)
but this really only looks like making a profit out of simple meditation and spending time with your consciousness
@Nooticus
December 11, 2024 at 9:30 am
Really excellent video, the production and topics on this channel are amazing. Also, the video was perfectly paced!
@BeelzeKid
December 12, 2024 at 3:25 pm
like if you know ;ludovico technique. from isaac XD
@herzogsbuick
December 13, 2024 at 7:06 am
does the power of christ compel me, or does my conscious mind reject it?! i don’t know anything anymore!!
@jaydenmok4043
December 15, 2024 at 8:32 am
are u ok
@guest_informant
December 16, 2024 at 4:52 am
Neuralink 🙂
@AustinJD84
December 16, 2024 at 8:33 pm
I feel bad for people who fall for this stuff
@Zeitgeist997
December 16, 2024 at 11:29 pm
@17:53 it’s disturbing that after DEI and women’s liberation is silly and fake ideas such as that one made the USA government a joke hy officials that slow having jobs within the government
@BloodDripss
December 17, 2024 at 3:07 am
another instant classic. i sincerely hope you continue to make these incredible tech history videos for us!! i never have heard of “Popular Science” before you featured on this channel, and i am so glad you have been able to showcase this history to us all! thank you once again Kevin. great work dude!!! much love to Team Popular Science!
@private_channel1821
December 27, 2024 at 8:50 pm
Remindes me on the device from the tv series “Chuck” (2007-2012) with the “Intersect, “flashes” and the “cypher”.
@loopghost
December 29, 2024 at 5:02 pm
“Become a whale”… already working on it.
@bingsterc7621
December 29, 2024 at 6:56 pm
Dane Spotts looks kinda like a cross between Burt Reynolds and James Montgomery Doohan aka Scotty from Star Trek: The Original Series.
@bingsterc7621
December 29, 2024 at 7:03 pm
The “Mind Control Glasses” looks like Bret “The Hitman” Hart’s Glasses.
@bingsterc7621
December 29, 2024 at 7:19 pm
The true live versions of Jedis are Shaolin Monks.
@aelolul
December 30, 2024 at 10:13 pm
holy shot i wasn’t photosensitive before but i think i am now
@armylrs2391
December 31, 2024 at 6:12 pm
There’s nothing nefarious about these light and sound machines which are still widely sold by a lot of different companies ( all they are is binaural beats paired with bright flashing lights) . Of course, the claims made by some of the companies who sell them are bullshit but I can boil it down for you quite easily; it’s a massage for your brain and when paired with the glasses it’s a bit like a mild acid trip, it’s actually a very cool and relaxing experience. Get a pair of headphones and YouTube search ” binaural beats ” and listen to them in a dark room with your eyes closed. It’s an amazing way to unwind and relax, 100% legit.
@chadhoward1982
December 31, 2024 at 7:57 pm
Seriously bro? If you don’t want it send it my way. A lot of mediation audio frequencies sound like that because you have to mimic the brainwave frequency. Since you won’t be able to hear a 2hz frequency or any other low frequency like that, you have to put a frequency in one ear that is higher or lower in the value frequency you want to simulate the in the other ear. Also you can get OBE experiences when you flash a light in your eyes why they are closed. The idea is to numb the visual and audio senses so you can pair that with a silent mind and you escape your reality. It’s a bio hack that keeps you from having to do 20+ years of meditation and breathing exercises to learn to control your senses to get in that same state that some wierd audio and flashing lights can do after a week or two of using them.
@aleksitjvladica.
January 2, 2025 at 6:11 pm
Where are my comments?!
@RalphBarbagallo
January 3, 2025 at 3:49 am
lol another gadget I saw in Omni magazine that I desperately wanted. Totally forgot about this.
@tamarabrugara
January 3, 2025 at 9:14 pm
Interestingly there are so few Dutch people with the last name de ligter that I assumed it was a assumed name , but there are literally a handfull people actually called that in North-Holland
@mikezio
January 6, 2025 at 11:33 pm
The modern version of this is the Lumenate app, which uses your phones flash to do the same thing paired with sounds / haptics (if you choose). I will say, I’ve been using the app for the last year and it 9/10 times puts me into a trance and knocks me out if I’m having trouble sleeping.