Electrical Engineering Design with the Subconscious Mind

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to harness the creative energy of the subconscious mind, to perform useful work while meditating, daydreaming, lucid dreaming, and the like. One of our ultimate goals is “jobbing on the sleep”, an inverse or reciprocal to “sleeping on the job”. We present, as the first step in this direction, an experimental apparatus for inducing and measuring steady-state visually evoked potentials (SSVEPs), where the subject concentrates on the rotating pattern that is mounted to the shaft of an electric motor. Essentially, we prove that human-in-the-loop meditation and visual attention exercises as a user concentrates on the rotating pattern results in some degree of SSVEP response.