Greetings all, I have been lurking on these forums for a while, and am now the proud owner of my very own Kasina, wahoo!
This is my first AVS machine, though I have done much work with binaural beats and isochronic tones, and have found them to be immensely useful to me in many real ways. I have also had much enjoyment creating my own using Gnaural and other software, and one of my other passions is music production, which the two hobbies have a natural synergy of course.
I have meditated on and off for years, but only in the last year or two have I felt I had much real tangible progress, and I attribute much of it to the addition of audio brainwave entrainment to my practices.
Somehow I kind of glossed over AVS machines for many years, and it wasn't until I recently read and heard some things about the Lucia Light Machine, that I suddenly kind of realized that I was missing out on something, hence the new Kasina.
I have only had the unit for a couple of days now, and have only gone through a few sessions, but I am quite thoroughly blown away by this thing already!
My first session was the Dream session in the Night Voyage category. I ran it at the lowest brightness and it quite effectively knocked me out, and brought me back up a few times as designed, and left me asleep when it ended.
I was pretty impressed by the visual entrainment, particularly that it didn't drive me nuts while trying to sleep.
But it wasn't until the next day on my lunch break, when I ran "A Starlit Night" from the Mind Art category, and slowly started stepping the brightness up as the session went on, that I realized just how powerful the visual stimulus can be. As I stepped up the brightness, each level brought on a new dimension of the visual experience, that wasn't there on the previous. By the time I got the to the top of the brightness, my jaw was pretty much on the ground. Throughout the session I varied the brightness a few times, as the intensity of the effects actually took me by surprise and almost had me anxious as to how far down the rabbit hole it was going to take me! The only things that have elicited that kind of effect for me, are generally illegal in most developed countries .
I have since done the other hour long sleep session in the night voyage category, which knocked me right out, the energize session, and the create session.
Personal initial observations, particularly regarding the Starlit Night session;
Many times it almost feels like my eyes are actually open when they are really closed, I think that feeling for me helps produce an almost "psychedelic" like, non-physical head-space for me.
It takes some time getting used to letting the eyes relax while in a session, this seems to be coming easier as I do more sessions.
I am really glad that there are dedicated physical buttons for the brightness of the lightframes, it makes it very easy to adjust without looking, and I have found different enjoyable aspects come out at different brightness levels on the sessions, and being able to dial it down momentarily if it is to intense is nice.
I need to get some kind of eye mask to block light leak from theglasses, so that when I do a session at bed time, I don't disrupt my other half next to me. So far I have just draped a bit of cloth of some sort over the glasses on my face.
Speaking of other half, it is already becoming apparent that she is not enthused about my enthusiasm for the device, as it is already leading to less "cuddle time"
I am interested in trying the open eye diffuser mod that I have seen talked about on here, and will probably take it one step further, as I recently gutted a 17" LCD panel, and have the light diffusing sheets that are used to make the light even on the screen, I have a feeling they will be quite exceptional for this purpose.
I am REALLY looking forward to playing around with creating my own SpectraStrobe tracks!
Any updates on the new KBS editors release?
Thanks for the awesome product, looking forward to doing many more sessions, and being a part of the community here!
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