all right so we're going to talk today about the mind place Lamine er this is a
brand-new mind machine which has only just been released and I was lucky
enough to be sent this to review so this is not a sponsored video but I did get
this for free so bear that in mind when you listen to this review of the mind
place Limina so I've actually literally just got this I'm gonna unbox it now and
what I'm going to do is an unbox it so you can see like a first look at this
thing and then I'm gonna test it and then the
video the final video you see will be like a compilation of everything so a
compilation of the unboxing and actually me using it for a week or two and that's
what you're going to see in the final video so here is the unboxing of the
mind place looming now my first thoughts are I'm pretty sure this is gonna be
smaller than the proton which is the last mine machine I reviewed but I'm not
entirely sure so so yes it looks like this is a lot smaller than the pros ion
which is the first mine machine that I did a full review of on this channel and
so it looks pretty good I have to say it does look pretty good and then you have
this little protective covering here at the screen beautiful so this one does
look a lot better than the pro Scion it's got the same sort of click wheel
style buttons here very simple volume or brightness I should say right this
control on the side and then volume on this side so it's very easy to tell
where you know what the buttons are doing so you know the brightness is here
volume is here and then it looks like you have an on switch here the cable
micro USB to connect it to your computer and then the normal cable so the aux
cable the headphones and the Gans frames the goggles go in there so I'm pretty
sure it's going to take three or actually two double-a batteries it's
gonna take two double-a batteries in here and that is the Lamine oh that is
out remind mind machine itself so as you can see it's very small
it fits in the palm of your hand if I could just get my phone here to
compare you'll see that it's pretty much smaller than an iPhone this is an iPhone
8 so you'll see here this is actually a very small device all right so I'm just
nip attach the site now and look at this so it looks like this is the headphones
at least I'm I'm pretty sure these are the headphones we'll see yeah so it
looks like they give you some in-ear headphones here it's really cool I have
to say these look a bit higher quality than I was expecting these looks like
pretty decent in-ear headphones actually so that is a good bonus but you can like
I said you can use your own headphones as long as there's stereo headphones
they're going to work fine with the mine machine so then we'll continue unboxing
here all right so this is a double-ended aux cable and then here you have a micro
USB but to be honest I reckon everyone has a micro USB lying around you know
this is probably not needed although is good that they included it just in case
you don't have one hopefully when you unbox yours you're going to be a bit
more delicate than I was just then but these are the gans frames so as you can
see here this is what's going to create those crazy flashing lights in your
eyelids just rank it the camera to focus on this yeah so you can see here the LED
lights on the back of these goals now as I'm sure you're aware with mine machines
the idea is you're meant to close your eyes you're not meant to have your eyes
open when you look in these and then here is where it plugs into the actual
device so what I'm gonna do I think that's the only things I need to unbox
here this is probably a case of some sort yeah so this is looks like a nice
carrying case where you can take everything with you and one nice and one
nice pouch I'm actually curious to see how everything fits into the pouch
so it's worth noting that with previous mine machines they were quite bulky they
did take up quite a lot of room but it looks like this one fits nicely into the
pouch everything fits in here and as you can see it's not that big I mean it
would go in a rucksack quite nicely in a suitcase or whatever so that is the
pouch now so then here it looks like we have the sessions now it looks like they
have done here is actually included a summary of each session and what it's
going to do unlike the previous ones where they just literally told you that
the track name this one is actually telling you exactly what the sessions do
so I really like that it's a nice touch and there you can see how to use the
different categories here and let me just give you a little summary here of
some of the sessions so it says the tract length what it's for the category
and a little summary about what its gonna sound like and how it's going to
work and then here I'll just give you a bit more of a detailed look at the
device itself so as you can see it's very nice high quality smooth there are
no bad things to say about it at the moment you know I need to test it
obviously but you can see here the nice nice clean buttons it's very easy to use
and it's very lightweight although I haven't yet put the batteries in
so what I'm gonna do is I'm now gonna go and put the batteries in and test it
over the next two weeks and the final video you see I will try and rearrange
everything here with this little board and or maybe I'll do a talking head
video and actually show you me using this machine so that's a cut for now and
now I'm gonna go and test it up alright what's up so I've actually gone ahead
and turned this thing on I've put some batteries in this and I've actually
tested out out for about half an hour now so this isn't a full review but I'm
just wanted to walk you through the menu system because it's very exciting but
there are there is one thing that I don't particularly like but that's the
only bad thing I have to say about this so far so
let me actually just turn it off and so I can show you from from scratch how it
works so as you can see here obviously you plug in the headphones and the gans
frames the goggles into the top so you just hold press and hold this power
button and device powers up and then let me just show you here this menu system
so the first thing you'll notice is you can see here the volume level and the
brightness level and the battery level very simple so obviously if you move the
brightness up and down you'll see that the the brightness indicator goes up or
down and then the same with the volume on the other side you'll see that the
volume can be moved around there so you can basically see at a glance the volume
and the brightness level and the battery so then the menu itself you navigate
with this little click wheel here you know in all directions and then this is
the enter key so it looks like this the left button is to go back and then the
right one let's go forward and then up and down and then this is to select so
let me just show you for example here I'm going to select sessions and you'll
notice there are several folders here so there's serious and it's saved where I
last was in the menu system so I need to scroll back now so it's the serious
internal memory Pro Sion gamma sessions now the interesting thing here is it
actually has all of the sessions from the pro sion so if you were considering
whether you should get the Lumina or the pro so on my machine I probably get this
one simply because it already contains all of the tracks from Pro Sion and all
of the bonus tracks that are in the demeanor as well the only thing and this
is the only downside of the Lumina the menu system seems to be fairly
difficult to navigate because you can only see two things on the screen any
one time so as you scroll down you'll see this is one two three four and then
you scroll down five six now if there's a hundred tracks on here that can take
quite a while to scroll through them all and the menu system seems to be just a
little bit laggy it just seems to have that little delay when you scroll
through but other than that there's nothing wrong with this the menu system
is very bright it's very easy to use so as you see here yet like I said the pro
soil on tracklist the gamma sessions so you can see that it has a edition of
gamma sessions which is something that no as far as I'm aware no
mind machine has has got so far so gamma sessions is a really
interesting one proton internal memory and the serious which is power
regeneration quick breaks things like that athletics and physical performance
as well so then when you select one then we just select power regeneration it
gives you a 10 second countdown timer but if you want to skip that you can
just press the Enter key again and it starts playing immediately now what
you'll notice here is you have the option with the up key let me just show
you here the mod thing here you can select the different audio types so your
aux cable headphones and whatever so you have to select that there it tells you
how far you in in the track so this is 20 minute track here at when we're 19
seconds in so far and then tells you the track name if you press the middle key
it pauses it just like that so and then you'll notice that when I have when the
track is playing as it should do you will see the flashing lights here now I
actually have a lighting on here so did so it's masking how bright these
actually are but if I just turn this off then you will see that the lights are
flashing as they should be and I think that's I think that's all there is to
say about the luminous so far so in the next video or in the next section of
this video I'm gonna be doing a full review after using it for two weeks and
I'll be doing some talking about how it's been going and things like that
alright so it's now been a few weeks and I'm going to talk about my experiences
with the Lumina this is a very high powered mind machine so as you probably
saw it scene from the unboxing it's very high quality I'm just gonna take it out
now and just show you so this is the device I'm sure you've seen it's smaller
than an iPhone as you can see here really cool really
good size it's a very lightweight as well it's actually I'd say around the
same weight as an iPhone when it's got the batteries in and so I'm just gonna
show you I'm just gonna show you what it looks like and how it actually looks
like when it's on and then I'm gonna talk about my experiences with the mind
machine with the Lumina mind machine from mind place.com so I
actually like to put the headphones in first just because I feel like
everything just gets tangled so easily the goggles go in like that I know now
I'm now gonna select a track let me just see what we got here so you can just see
how it looks when it's actually on somebody we're gonna go with this a
serious track how would we generation
okay so it's playing now I don't know if you can see the lights here actually the
camera will still focus on me and then just within just a few seconds I
immediately start feeling more relaxed more calm so you can see here the lights
are flashing in the goggles like that you close your eyes while he put the
goggles on and then it plays binaural beats through the headphones which you
probably can't hear but they're playing through these stereo headphones it's
really important that the headphones be stereo in order for the in order for it
to work properly so what did I actually think about the looming now well I have
to say compared to the pro so on so the La Mina is by far the better mind
machine not only does it feel like the audio quality is better but it also
feels like it's just a more fun device to use and if you compare them and how
they look you can see very clearly that this is the superior products just
because it looks more modern they've paid more attention to the design of
this thing is sleeker it's lighter and it fits more easily in in your pocket
you know if you compare the dimensions of these and I'm gonna do a full
comparison by the way of the Louie the lemmino versus the pro style but I have
to say you know I was impressed with the price on when I first got it but the La
Mina just seems to be taking the pedestal for the best mind machine
maybe slightly behind the casino just because the casino I believe has quite a
few more tracks than the Lumina but I may be wrong with that so here are some
benefits of the Lumina number one it contains all of the tracks from the pro
Scion and the serious device as well as all of the bonus tracks that you get
with the Lumina so it already is more value and it's cheaper by the way as
well so it's organized into folders you can actually create your own binding or
Beach tracks you can encode your own audio your own meditation your own
guided meditation even and then have this play the visual stimuli through the
goggles and actually the binaural beats as well over the top of that so it's
completely customizable it comes with free binary software that you can use
that you can actually make your own binaural beats as well and if you if
that wasn't enough you can also with the gamma session you can basically create
and decide your own frequency so if you just want to listen to a particular by
your beats frequency with this with the visual stimuli okay you can do that you
don't need to pick a specific track you don't need to encode it you can just
literally right from the menu system decide the binding or beats frequency is
a binaural beats machine and that's what's really exciting about this I
really am quite excited to be showing this with you guys so so that's how that
works there is also as I said a track creator
which is where you can through the micro USB cable you can actually create your
own track with your own frequency of binaural beats and encode everything
yourself is very easy to do with the track creator and then upload it to this
and there's actually quite a big amount of internal memory in here as well so
overall I would say very good my machine very powerful highly recommended
especially if you are considering something like the pros ion other Cocina
or even one of the Dave delight models I would say the Lim ena just blows them
all away in terms of quality and value for money now I'm not going to talk too
much about the actual this is more of a technical video a technical review
looking at the specific features and what you get with the lumina I'm gonna
be making another video talking about benefits and more about why you
want to use this product but here is just in a nutshell how it works
think of your brain like a tuning fork so all throughout the day and throughout
the night we experience various brainwave states and they and those
brainwave states are alpha beta theta gamma and Delta now the each brainwave
state does something specific and helps you perform in that brainwave state for
what you're trying to do an example of that would be Delta is used for a deep
restorative sleep so when you're asleep you're usually when you're in deep sleep
in Delta brainwaves this is for relaxing relaxing healing yourself restoring
whatever okay contrast that to when you're awake and you're using a lot of
prefrontal lobe activity you're thinking you're engaging your critical faculties
that is more alpha and beta brainwave state so the problem is that when you
consume social media when you watch films or even when you're just feeling a
bit lazy you're not in beta so it can be hard to focus if you listen to something
like a mine machine if you just plug yourself in for a 10-minute session you
can guide yourself back into alpha and beta and back into a focused set state
that is incredibly powerful not only because you can decide when to be
focused but because you can use this too you can decide what to do you can decide
that you want to be focused with this particular frequency or if you want to
relax in the evening you can then decide to go from alpha or beta to theta or
Delta very powerful about a very simple thing that you can use to biohack
yourself and basically just decide which brainwave States you want to experience
now if you want to see a video talking about specific benefits of this and
maybe why you want to use it check my channel how to lucid and make sure to
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next video