 All right, so we're going to talk today about the mind place lamina 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 sponsored video, but I did get this for free So bear that in mind when you listen to this review of the mind place lamina So I've actually Literally just got this I'm going to unbox it now and what I'm going to do is I'm going to unbox it So you can see like a first look at this thing and then I'm going to test it And then the video the final video you see you 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 lamina Now my first thoughts are I'm pretty sure this is going to be smaller than the prosaion 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 prosaion Which is the first mind 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 of the screen Beautiful So this one does look a lot better than the prosaion. It's got the same sort of click wheel style buttons here Very simple volume or brightness I should say brightness 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 that 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 cables 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 going to take two double a batteries in here and that is the lamina that is the actual mind 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 that this is actually a very small device All right, so I'm just gonna put that to the side 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 look 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 they're stereo headphones They're gonna work fine with the mind 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 it is good that they included it just in case you don't have one Hopefully when you unbox yours, you're gonna 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 gonna create those crazy Flashing lights in your eyelids Just trying to get the camera to focus on this. Yeah, so you can see here the LED lights on the back of these goggles 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 in one nice in one nice pouch I'm actually curious to see how everything fits into the pouch So it's worth noting that with previous wine 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 What 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 the the track name This one is actually telling you exactly what the sessions do. So I really like that. That's a nice touch And 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 track length what it's for the category and a little summary about what it's going to 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 about 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 going to do is I'm now going to go and put the batteries in and Test it over the next two weeks and the final video you see I'll 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 cup for now and now I'm going to go and test it out. All right. 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 it 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 is to 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 saved where I last was in the menu system So I need to scroll back now So it's serious internal memory Procyon gamma sessions Now the interesting thing here is it actually has all of the sessions from the procyon So if you were considering whether you should get the lamina or the procyon mine machine I'd probably get this one simply because it already contains all of the tracks from procyon and all of the bonus tracks that are in the lamina as well The only thing and this is the only downside of the lamina The menu system seems to be fairly difficult to navigate because you can only see two things on the screen at any one time So as you scroll down, you'll see it says 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'll see here yet like I said the procyon track list the gamma sessions So you can see that it has an addition 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 procyon 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 Let me 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 can actually select that there It tells you how far you in in the track So this is a 20-minute track you 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'll see the flashing lights here Now I actually have a lighting on here so that So it's masking how bright these actually are but if I just turn this off Then you'll 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 lamina so far So in the next video or in the next section of this video i'm going to 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 All right, so it's now been a few weeks and i'm going to talk about my experiences with the lamina This is a very high powered mind machine. So as you've probably seen from the unboxing It's very high quality. I'm just going to take it out now and and just show you So this is the device. I'm sure you've seen it. 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 going to show you i'm just going to show you what it looks like and how it actually looks like when it's on and Then i'm going to talk about my Experiences with the mind machine with the lamina mind machine from mindplace.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 And i'll now I'm now going to select a track. Let me just see what we've got here So you can just see how it looks when it's actually on somebody We're going to go with this a serious track power regeneration Okay, so it's playing now. I don't know if you can see the lights here Hopefully 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 you put the goggles on And then it plays binary 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 uh, in order for it to work properly So what did I actually think about the lamina? Well, I have to say compared to the procyon so The lamina 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. It's sleeker. It's lighter and it fits more easily In uh, in your pocket, you know, if you compare the uh Dimensions of these and I'm going to do a full comparison by the way of the lamina versus the procyon But I have to say, you know, I was impressed with the procyon when I first got it But the lamina 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 lamina, but I may be wrong with that. So Here are some benefits of the lamina number one It contains all of the tracks from the procyon And the serious device as well as all of the bonus tracks that you get with the lamina 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 by neural beats 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 binaural beats software that you can use So 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 binaural 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 write from the menu system Decide the binaural beats frequency. It's 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 procyon or the casino or even one of the day for delight models I would say the lamina 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 lamina I'm going to be making another video talking about benefits and more about why you would 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 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 deep restorative sleep So when you're asleep, you're usually when you're in deep sleep in delta brainwaves This is for relaxing healing yourself restoring whatever, okay Contrast that to when you're awake and you you're using a lot of prefrontal lobe activity Your 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 mind 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 to 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 but 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 would want to use it check my channel how to lucid And make sure to subscribe because I post weekly lucid dreaming tutorials videos sleep tech reviews all sorts of things like that And also I would love to hear what you think about this. 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