NeuroVIZR Dictionary
11 Minute Sessions
Short, pre-designed NeuroVIZR programs that use light and sound stimulation to shift brain states quickly. They are ideal for daily use.
Active Inference
The brain's process of taking actions to confirm or fulfill its predictions. Rather than just updating its models passively, the brain often behaves in ways that bring reality into alignment with what it expects—sometimes even ignoring contradictory information.
Addiction Loop
A self-reinforcing pattern in the brain where substance use becomes the primary way to predict and manage internal states, creating compulsive behavior driven by rigid expectations.
Agni (Inner Fire)
A Vedic ceremonial ritual where offerings are made to sacred fire (Agni), believed to connect the earthly and divine realms. The ritual uses flickering flame, mantra, and rhythm to shift states of awareness.
Alpha Entrainment
Alpha entrainment is the process of using rhythmic stimuli—like pulsing light or sound—to synchronize the brain’s electrical activity to the alpha frequency range (typically 8–12 Hz). This state is associated with relaxed alertness, calm focus, and reduced mental chatter.
Alpha Rhythm Suppression
A decrease in the brain’s dominant alpha wave activity (typically 8–12 Hz), often observed during altered states of consciousness like deep meditation or psychedelic experiences. This suppression may open access to new sensory and emotional inputs.
Alpha Waves
Brainwaves between 8–12 Hz, typically present during relaxed wakefulness, calm focus, and reflective states. They increase with mindfulness and are reduced during anxiety or overthinking.
Altered States of Consciousness (ASC)
A temporary shift in awareness, perception, or cognition that differs significantly from ordinary waking consciousness. ASCs can arise through meditation, psychedelics, rhythmic stimulation, or trance practices.
Amygdala
A brain structure involved in emotional processing, especially fear and threat detection.
Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC)
A brain region involved in detecting conflict, regulating emotion, and integrating cognitive and emotional information—especially active when prediction errors or uncertainty arise.
Archetypal Resonance
The tendency for certain forms (like spirals or mandalas) to appear across cultures and altered states due to their deep structural alignment with both the brain and the cosmos.
Attention
The cognitive process of focusing on specific inputs while filtering out others. In Predictive Brain Coding, attention highlights prediction errors—helping the brain decide when to revise its internal models. In Buddhist practice, attention is trained through mindfulness to observe reality without distortion.
Attention
The cognitive process of selectively focusing on certain information while ignoring others.
Audiovisual Entrainment (AVE)
A method of influencing brainwaves using rhythmic light and sound pulses. The brain tends to synchronize with these external rhythms, allowing shifts in mood, focus, or relaxation.
Auto-semantic Form
A perceptual structure that conveys meaning through its appearance alone, without referring to anything else; it is what it means.
Bayesian Inference
A statistical method the brain uses to combine prior beliefs and new data—balancing past experiences with new input for more accurate predictions.
Beta Waves
Brainwaves in the 13–30 Hz range, associated with alertness, problem-solving, and active mental engagement. High-beta (above 20 Hz) can indicate stress or over-arousal.
Binaural Beats
An auditory illusion created when two slightly different frequencies are played into each ear. The brain perceives a third tone—the difference between them—encouraging brainwave synchronization at that frequency.
Bottom-Up Processing
The flow of raw sensory input (e.g., flickering lights, sound) into the brain, feeding into internal models to refine predictions.
Bottom-Up Sensory Reinterpretation
The brain’s process of re-evaluating incoming sensory information after predictive models have been disrupted—common in recovery or altered states where new meanings are formed.
Brain Engagement
A general term for activating the brain in a meaningful way. In NeuroVIZR, this refers to how light patterns stimulate cognitive and emotional processes.
Brain Signal Variability (BSV)
A measure of the brain’s moment-to-moment flexibility and responsiveness. High BSV indicates the brain is balanced between order and chaos—capable of adapting, learning, and shifting states. Low BSV suggests rigidity; too much variability may signal disorganization.
Brain Signal Variability (BSV)
The natural fluctuation in brain activity over time. Healthy variability is linked to flexibility, adaptability, and mental well-being.
Brainwave Entrainment
The process by which the brain synchronizes its electrical activity to external rhythmic stimuli, such as pulsing light, sound, or vibration. This technique is used to induce specific mental states.
Brainwave
Rhythmic electrical patterns in the brain, classified by frequency (e.g., delta, theta, alpha, beta, gamma), often associated with different mental states.
Call to Adventure (Neuro-narrative)
A metaphor for the moment novelty or uncertainty intrudes on a stable system—equivalent to a spike in prediction error that initiates a learning cycle in the brain.
Cerebrospinal Fluid (glymphatic) clearance
A brain-cleaning process that removes waste during rest or deep states. Light stimulation at 40 Hz may support this process by boosting flow.
Chronic Prediction Error
A repeated mismatch between expected and actual outcomes that the brain fails to resolve, often fueling ongoing distress or compulsive behavior.
Cobwebs (Klüver Constant)
Geometric hallucinations that appear as radiating lines or net-like structures; often generated by retinotopic interference patterns in the visual cortex.
Cognitive Dulling
A reduction in mental clarity, alertness, or decision-making capacity—often a long-term effect of substance dependency or repetitive behavior loops.
Cognitive Flexibility
The brain’s capacity to shift between thoughts, strategies, or perspectives. It allows for adaptive behavior in changing environments and is enhanced through healthy, hormetic forms of challenge.
Cognitive Repatterning
The process of replacing rigid, maladaptive thought and behavior patterns with more flexible and adaptive ones—often supported by heightened plasticity states.
Coherence Weaving
The neurological process of integrating and stabilizing new mental models after a period of reorganization—associated with increased long-range connectivity and a sense of narrative or identity coherence.
Consciousness Collection
A curated group of NeuroVIZR sessions designed to explore and expand awareness, often through calming or insight-oriented stimulation.
Contrast
Deliberate difference or tension in sensory patterns (e.g., rhythm changes) that engage attention and support learning through surprise.
Controlled Novelty Exposure
The intentional introduction of unfamiliar but safe stimuli to gently challenge and revise the brain’s predictive models.
Cortex
The outer layer of the brain responsible for higher cognitive functions like reasoning, language, and voluntary movement.
Crossing the Threshold
The neural and cognitive transition from stable models to engagement with novelty—often involving increased sensory integration and disinhibition of the thalamocortical loop.
Cross-Modal Integration
The brain’s blending of different sensory inputs—like light and sound—into a unified experience that deepens meaning.
Cymatics
The visual representation of sound vibrations on a medium such as sand, water, or light. Cymatics shows how frequency can structure matter—offering insights into the vibrational nature of perception and consciousness.
Deep Rest / Silent Absorption
A quiet neural phase dominated by slow-wave activity and default mode network processes, allowing the brain to consolidate new information without active interference.
Default Mode Network (DMN)
A brain network active during inward focus, rumination, and self-referential thinking. Overactivity is linked to anxiety and depression; NeuroVIZR aims to modulate this through rhythmic stimulation.
Default Mode Network (DMN)
A brain network active during rest and self-referential thinking; often quieted during goal-oriented tasks or deep meditation.
Delta Waves
The slowest brainwaves (0.5–4 Hz), associated with deep, dreamless sleep and physical restoration. They dominate during healing states and are often reduced in stress or trauma conditions.
Dendrite
Branch-like extensions of neurons that receive electrical signals from other neurons.
Destabilization
The introduction of controlled prediction error into the system—disrupting stale priors to create a readiness for learning and neuroplastic change.
Disinhibition (Neural)
The temporary reduction of brain inhibitory mechanisms, allowing new pathways to form. Often seen in altered states or therapeutic interventions.
Dopamine
A brain chemical linked to reward, curiosity, and attention—released in response to novelty or pattern resolutions in NeuroVIZR sessions.
Dopamine
A neurotransmitter linked to motivation, reward, and learning.
Dopaminergic Salience Network
A network that signals novelty, importance, or surprise—helping direct attention to prediction errors that matter for updating the brain's models.
Dreamachine
A rotating flicker device invented by Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs that produces alpha-frequency stroboscopic light, inducing closed-eye visuals and altered states of consciousness without drugs.
Duration Slider
A feature in the NeuroVIZR app that allows users to adjust the length of a session to fit their time and needs.
Dynamic Emergence
The spontaneous appearance of new perceptual forms, like glyphs or spirals, as a result of shifting brain states or altered consciousness.
Dynamic Range (Neural)
The brain’s capacity to shift flexibly across different activity states, such as from high focus to deep rest. A healthy dynamic range supports adaptability, learning, and resilience.
Ego Dissolution
A temporary loss or softening of the sense of self, often reported during deep meditation, psychedelic experiences, or trance. It can lead to feelings of unity, timelessness, and expanded awareness.
EMDR & NeuroVIZR™
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma therapy. NeuroVIZR sessions may complement this process by helping the brain reprocess emotional content through rhythmic light.
Emergence of Novelty
The phase in brain change when new, lower-error models begin to replace outdated ones—associated with reward system activation and the formation of fresh priors.
Emotional Flatness
A blunted emotional state where the range and intensity of feelings are reduced. Often linked to long-term substance use or rigid internal models that block affective processing.
Emotionally Felt States
Internally generated experiences—like flow, catharsis, or transcendence—emerging from structured stimulation rather than conscious thought.
Emptiness
In Buddhism, the principle that nothing has an independent, fixed identity. Everything exists in relation to other conditions and perspectives. In neuroscience, this mirrors the view that the self is a flexible, constructed model rather than a static entity—allowing for greater neuroplastic change.
Entheogen
A psychoactive substance, often plant-based, used in sacred or ceremonial settings to induce spiritual or mystical experiences. Examples include ayahuasca, psilocybin, and peyote.
Entropic Brain / Psychedelic Information Theory
A theory suggesting that more variable, less predictable brain activity is linked to flexible thinking and deep transformation. NeuroVIZR sessions intentionally use this principle.
Entropic Shift
A temporary increase in neural randomness and flexibility—associated with exploration, creativity, or neuroplastic reset. Can be induced by psychedelics or patterned light/sound.
Epistemic Medium
A channel through which knowledge is not just communicated but actually emerges—light, in this model, is such a medium.
Epistemic Rigidity
A state where the brain becomes overconfident in its existing beliefs or internal models, resisting new information. NeuroVIZR protocols use variability to help reduce this rigidity and reintroduce adaptive openness.
Executive Control Network
A brain system responsible for decision-making, attention regulation, and goal-directed behavior—often disrupted in substance dependency.
Executive Function
A set of mental skills including working memory, flexible thinking, and self-control, often governed by the prefrontal cortex.
Field-dependence (of glyphs)
The principle that a glyph’s meaning arises not in isolation but from its position in a larger, unfolding visual or perceptual field.
Flicker-Induced Hallucination
Intricate visual hallucinations (grids, spirals, etc.) observed by Jan Evangelista Purkyně during self-experiments with flickering discs in the 1830s. Among the earliest scientific records of flicker-induced imagery.
Flow State
A mental state of deep focus, effortless engagement, and altered time perception, often generated by structured stimulation.
Form Constants (Klüver’s)
Four recurring geometric visual patterns seen in altered states or flicker stimulation: lattices (grids), tunnels (spirals), cobwebs (radiating patterns), and target patterns (concentric circles).
Form Constants
Recurring geometric patterns (e.g., spirals, tunnels, lattices) seen in altered states like psychedelics or migraines, linked to neural architecture.
Free Energy
A concept where the brain minimizes uncertainty in its predictions—reducing “free energy” through better internal models.
Functional Connectivity
The communication and coordination between different brain regions. Recovery tools like NeuroVIZR aim to restore healthy connectivity patterns.
Gain Control (Precision Weighting)
In Predictive Brain Coding, this refers to how much confidence the brain gives to either its internal predictions or to sensory data. Modulating this “precision weighting” is essential for balanced learning and flexibility.
Gamma (40 Hz Stimulation)
A brainwave frequency linked to cognition, attention, and memory. Light pulses at 40 Hz may enhance brain health and clear metabolic waste.
Gamma Waves
High-frequency brainwaves (>30 Hz) linked to attention, memory, and conscious awareness.
Gamma Waves
The fastest brainwaves (>30 Hz), linked to peak focus, memory, conscious awareness, and integrative thinking. Often observed during moments of insight, flow, or deep compassion.
Generative Model
The brain’s internal framework for predicting sensory input; refined continuously through feedback and learning.
Glymphatic System Activation
The glymphatic system clears waste from the brain. NeuroVIZR stimulation, especially during rest, may support this important cleaning function.
Glyph
A patterned visual form that acts as a carrier of meaning—not symbolic, but structurally resonant, emerging from brain dynamics or consciousness itself.
Glyphic Epistemology
A way of knowing through direct visual forms (glyphs), where perception and meaning arise together, bypassing symbolic language.
Glyphic Language
A visual language made of structured forms that directly communicate meaning without using words, symbols, or logic.
Gnostic Form
A visual structure that communicates meaning through direct experience rather than interpretation; to see it is to know it.
Gray Matter
Brain tissue rich in neuronal cell bodies, involved in muscle control, sensory perception, and decision-making.
Hero’s Journey (Neuro-narrative Model)
A symbolic framework for transformation, mapped onto neurobiological stages of prediction error, model updating, and reintegration—mirrored by the NeuroVIZR Five-Stage Algorithm.
Hierarchical Processing
Layered brain processing where different levels—sensory to conceptual—support mutual prediction and refinement.
High Entropy State
A brain state of elevated signal complexity and variability, often associated with increased neuroplasticity and openness to revising internal models.
Hippocampus
A brain region central to memory formation and spatial navigation.
Holomovement (Bohm)
A concept describing the universe as a continuous flow where all parts contain information about the whole—relating to how glyphs may be fragments of a unified mind-field.
Hormesis
A biological principle where mild, temporary stressors result in stronger system performance over time. In NeuroVIZR, hormesis refers to carefully calibrated sensory input that promotes neural adaptation without overload.
Hormetic Input
Carefully designed unpredictable or novel stimuli (such as light flicker, sound shifts, or emotional contrasts) that introduce small doses of “healthy surprise.” These inputs promote brain flexibility without inducing stress or defensive reactions.
Hyperplasticity
A temporary increase in the brain’s ability to change and learn. NeuroVIZR protocols are designed to enter and exit this state in a guided way.
Hypnagogia
The transitional state between wakefulness and sleep, marked by vivid imagery, spontaneous insights, and theta brainwave dominance. Often associated with early trance, creativity, and intuitive breakthroughs.
Impermanence
The insight that all experiences and phenomena are constantly changing. Clinging to fixed outcomes or identities leads to suffering. Neuroscience shows that adaptive brains embrace change—updating models and remaining flexible, just as Buddhist teachings encourage.
Implicate Order (Bohm)
A theoretical field in quantum physics where all reality is enfolded and interconnected; potentially the source of universal glyphic forms.
Implicate Substrate
The hidden, underlying level of reality where all forms and knowledge are enfolded before becoming visible or conscious.
Implicit Meaning
Deep, non-verbal insights or feelings triggered by subtle sensory changes—knowledge that arises without conscious reasoning.
Inner Cinema
Integrate Stage
The final part of a NeuroVIZR session where stimulation becomes gentle and coherent. It helps the brain settle, reflect, and absorb what just occurred.
Inter-brain Synchrony
When two or more people experience coordinated brainwave activity, often during shared tasks, meditation, or synchronized NeuroVIZR sessions.
Interdependence
The recognition that all things arise in relation to other things; nothing exists in isolation. In brain science, this is mirrored by how neural systems and behavior are shaped by complex interactions between biology, environment, and context—just as Buddhist thought emphasizes.
Internal Model Collapse
A temporary or permanent failure of the brain’s predictive framework to match lived experience, often triggering confusion, anxiety, or a “reset” opportunity for new learning.
Interoceptive Signal
Information from within the body—such as hunger, heart rate, or breath—used by the brain to assess internal states. Psychedelic and sensory sessions can heighten awareness of these signals.
Isochronic Tones
Single tones pulsed on and off at precise intervals. Unlike binaural beats, isochronic tones don’t require headphones and are considered one of the most effective forms of audio brainwave entrainment.
Klüver Constants
Four main visual motifs—lattices, spirals, tunnels, cobwebs—frequently seen during altered states; linked to excitation patterns in visual cortex (V1).
Lattices (Klüver Constant)
Grid-like or honeycomb visual patterns generated by standing wave activity in the visual cortex; linked to order and orientation.
Learning Reset
A temporary suspension of dominant neural models, creating an opening for new experiences to form lasting change. This is often a target of therapeutic interventions.
Light as Epistemic Medium
The idea that light is not just what reveals knowledge, but is itself the medium of knowing—meaning is embedded in structured luminosity.
Light Sensitivity Test
A built-in safety check to ensure users do not have adverse reactions to flashing lights, such as discomfort or photosensitive seizures.
Limbic System
A group of interconnected brain structures involved in emotion, motivation, and memory.
Liminal State
A threshold or in-between state of consciousness—not fully asleep, awake, or in trance. Liminality often precedes breakthroughs, insights, or deep shifts in awareness.
Long-Term Potentiation (LTP)
A process where repeated stimulation of neurons strengthens synaptic connections, considered a key mechanism in learning and memory.
Luminous Semiotics
A way of understanding meaning as emerging from light itself—structured, glowing forms that don’t just signify, but are meaning.
Macro Meso Micro (LED Design)
Describes the layering of light sources in NeuroVIZR: broad ambient effects (macro), mid-range pulsing (meso), and fast flicker stimulation (micro).
Maladaptive Loop
A rigid feedback cycle in which outdated or harmful brain predictions persist despite negative consequences.
Mesolithic Flicker
Meta-Stability
A balanced brain state near criticality—neither too rigid nor too chaotic. It supports creativity, insight, and fast reorganization of mental models. NeuroVIZR sessions aim to guide users into this optimal zone.
Micro-Instability (in Stimulation)
Deliberate small fluctuations in rhythm, brightness, or pattern during light/sound sessions that prevent habituation and promote neural flexibility.
Mind Machines
Early commercial devices combining rhythmic light and sound (usually with goggles and headphones) to induce altered states of consciousness or relaxation, part of the 1970s–1990s Human Potential Movement.
Mindfulness Journeys
NeuroVIZR sessions designed to support calm, present-moment awareness through light and sound patterns that guide attention gently.
Mirror Neurons
Neurons that fire both when an individual performs an action and when observing another perform the same action—linked to empathy and learning.
Mitigation of High-Beta Overactivity
NeuroVIZR sessions may reduce excess fast brainwaves (high beta), which are often linked to anxiety, stress, or mental overdrive.
Model Sampling
The rehearsal or internal testing of a new brain model—engaging mental simulation and hippocampal circuits to forecast outcomes and strengthen adaptive priors.
Myelin
A fatty substance that insulates nerve fibers and speeds up electrical communication between neurons.
Neural Entropy
A measure of the diversity and complexity of brain activity. Higher entropy can signal a brain in an open, learning-ready state.
Neural Glyph
A shape or form that arises from the brain’s own structure and carries inherent meaning, especially in altered states of consciousness.
Neurochemical Sensitivity
How responsive the brain is to chemical signals like dopamine or serotonin. Substance use can reduce this sensitivity over time.
Neurogenesis
The formation of new neurons in the brain, occurring notably in the hippocampus.
Neurognostic Field
A proposed layer of cognition where perception and understanding arise directly from structured brain activity, bypassing learned symbols.
Neurognostic Glyph
A visual form generated by brain processes that reveals intrinsic meaning; not learned, but discovered as part of the structure of perception.
Neurognostic Semiotics
A proposed field where visual patterns arising from brain activity (or altered states) are seen as intrinsic carriers of meaning—unifying neuroscience, mysticism, and cognition.
Neurological Entrenchment
The solidification of a brain state or behavior into a rigid loop, making it resistant to change—even when no longer beneficial.
Neuromodulation
The process by which neurotransmitters or stimulation alter neuron activity, affecting mood, attention, or arousal.
Neuron
A nerve cell that transmits electrical and chemical signals in the brain and nervous system.
Neurophysiological Trap
A condition in which the brain’s own prediction and reward mechanisms become rigid, leading to compulsive behaviors like addiction.
Neuroplastic Reorganization
A structural and functional reconfiguration of the brain’s networks, enabling new learning, behaviors, and emotional responses to replace maladaptive ones.
Neuroplasticity
The brain’s ability to reorganize and change its structure and function in response to experience, learning, or injury.
Neuroplasticity
The brain's ability to change its structure and function in response to experience. This is the foundation of learning, healing, and transformation.
Neurosemiotics
A field that studies how the brain interprets signs and symbols, not just raw data. NeuroVIZR light patterns may act like symbolic language for the brain.
Neuroshamanism
A contemporary synthesis of neuroscience and traditional shamanic principles. It explores how rhythmic stimulation, intention, and altered states can guide neuroplastic transformation and healing.
NeuroVIZR Algorithm
A structured sequence of light and sound stimulation, composed of five stages with two phases each, designed to guide users through destabilization, reorganization, and reintegration—mirroring natural learning cycles in the brain.
NeuroVIZR
A wearable light stimulation device designed to guide the brain into adaptive states using flickering LED lights and sound, based on scientific principles.
Noet / Noetogenesis
A "Noet" is a unit of meaningful change created when sensory input and brain activity interact in a transformative way. Noetogenesis is the process of generating these meaningful moments.
Non-Ordinary State
A brain state outside of usual waking consciousness—such as psychedelic, meditative, or sensory-entrainment states—associated with elevated plasticity and access to new meaning-making.
Ontological Resonator
A form or glyph that aligns so deeply with the structure of reality that it triggers recognition or transformation in the viewer.
Optometric LED Patterning
The intentional design of light rhythms and contrasts to stimulate visual pathways in ways that are both safe and neurologically effective.
Ordinary World (Neural Baseline)
The brain's stable state of low prediction error and familiar priors—serving as the foundation before any transformative input is introduced.
Outdated Expectation
A persistent internal belief about what will happen—even when reality no longer supports it. These expectations can drive craving and disillusionment.
Overfitted Model
A rigid internal brain model that is too tightly tied to past experiences. While it may work well in familiar situations, it fails to adapt to new data—leading to habit loops, resistance to change, or poor learning.
Overlearned Model
A deeply engrained internal prediction that becomes resistant to change, even in the face of contradictory evidence. Often a root of compulsive behavior.
Pareidolic Meaning-Making
The brain’s tendency to see meaning or patterns in random input (like seeing faces in clouds). NeuroVIZR leverages this to encourage insight and imagination.
Phase-Shifting Pulse
A sound technique where audio frequencies drift in and out of sync, creating a dynamic auditory field that prevents perceptual saturation and keeps the brain engaged.
Phosphenes
Phosphenes are visual sensations of light—such as spots, flashes, or patterns—that appear without actual light entering the eye. They can be triggered by pressure on the eyes, electrical stimulation, or flickering light, and are often studied in neuroscience and used in visionary practices and brainwave entrainment.
Photic Driving
Photic driving is the brain's rhythmic electrical response to flashing light, where the brain's electrical activity (especially in the visual cortex) begins to synchronize with the frequency of the light stimulus. This entrainment effect is commonly measured with EEG and is used in neurotechnology and research to influence brainwave patterns for cognitive, emotional, or therapeutic purposes.
Plastic Mode
A temporary brain state where it becomes more open to change, allowing new neural pathways to form more easily.
Post-symbolic Cognition
Thinking and knowing that happen before or beyond language, words, and symbols—often through direct perception of structured light.
Precision Weighting
The brain’s way of deciding how much to trust its expectations (top-down) versus new information (bottom-up). Adjusting this “confidence signal” helps the brain stay responsive and resilient.
Prediction Error
The difference between what’s expected and what actually happens—signals the brain to update its internal models.
Prediction Error
The mismatch between expected input (based on internal models) and actual sensory input—drives learning and brain reorganization.
Predictive Coding
A neuroscience theory where the brain constantly predicts what will happen next and updates those predictions based on sensory feedback. NeuroVIZR helps update outdated predictions.
Prefrontal Cortex
The part of the brain associated with complex behaviors like planning, decision-making, and impulse control.
Prepare Stage
The start of a session that calms the nervous system and prepares the brain to receive new input.
Psychedelic Integration
The conscious processing and incorporation of insights gained during a psychedelic experience. This includes reflection, behavioral change, and therapeutic or meditative practices that support long-term growth.
Psycho-Biological Trap
A state where neural, chemical, and emotional systems reinforce a harmful loop—such as addiction—even as the body and mind deteriorate.
Purkinje Patterns
Purkinje patterns are geometric visual hallucinations or entoptic phenomena observed when the retina is stimulated in unusual ways—such as through closed-eye light flicker, pressure, or electrical stimulation. Named after the Czech anatomist Jan Evangelista Purkyně, who first described them in the 19th century, these patterns typically appear as luminous grids, spirals, concentric circles, or branching shapes. They are thought to arise from the inherent structure and activity of the visual cortex, particularly when the brain’s usual visual input is disrupted or replaced by rhythmic or chaotic stimulation. In altered states, meditation, or flicker-based neurotechnology (such as NeuroVIZR), Purkinje patterns may surface as part of the brain's intrinsic visual grammar.
Radial Rays (Tögal)
Emanating lines seen in visionary states, often emerging from thigles; may correspond to cobwebs or tunnels in Klüver constants.
REBUS & Anarchic Brain Model
REBUS stands for Relaxed Beliefs Under Psychedelics. It describes how loosening rigid thought patterns opens the brain to new insights. NeuroVIZR can do this non-chemically.
Recalibration
The brain’s adjustment of its expectations after a prediction error to align more accurately with reality.
Reinforce Stage
A phase where the stimulation becomes rhythmic and consistent, helping the brain stabilize in the new state.
Repatterning
The act of reorganizing brain activity, behavior, or emotion into more adaptive patterns. Facilitated by tools like NeuroVIZR and supported by heightened variability.
Resilience Loop
A healthy feedback cycle in which novelty, meaning, and emotional balance reinforce brain flexibility and adaptability.
Resonant Frequency
A natural frequency at which a system (e.g., brain, cell, or structure) vibrates most easily. Entrainment techniques often aim to stimulate or harmonize with these frequencies for therapeutic effect.
Resting State
The baseline activity of the brain when not engaged in any specific task, often studied via fMRI.
Resurrection (Neural Integration)
The final transformative phase where a newly structured identity or worldview is stabilized and generalized across contexts—supported by efficient neural signaling and reduced cognitive load.
Return with the Elixir
A metaphor for the re-establishment of equilibrium after neuroplastic transformation—marked by efficient, adaptive, and generalized priors.
Ritual Entrainment
The intentional use of rhythm, repetition, and sensory cues (drumming, chanting, flicker) in cultural or spiritual practices to induce altered states and reinforce meaning.
Rolpa (Tibetan)
The visionary display of awareness itself; spontaneous appearances of light forms that are not illusions, but manifestations of intrinsic cognition.
Rolpa
Tibetan term for the spontaneous visionary display of awareness; often filled with colorful, meaningful forms that emerge in meditation.
Safe Prediction Error
A mild, controlled discrepancy between expectation and sensory reality designed to challenge the brain’s model without overwhelming it—key for therapeutic stimulation protocols.
Salience Detection
The process by which the brain identifies and prioritizes significant stimuli—critical for determining which prediction errors merit model revision.
Salience Network
A brain network that detects and prioritizes emotionally or contextually important stimuli—activated by structured variance.
Self-luminosity
The quality of certain visionary forms to shine or pulse from within—seen not just with the eyes, but felt as alive with meaning.
Self-Worth Re-Emergence
A process during recovery or altered states where individuals reconnect with intrinsic value and meaning, often blocked by substance dependency loops.
Semiotic Attractor
A form that repeatedly emerges in perception because it holds a deep structural role in how consciousness organizes meaning.
Semiotic Ontogeny
The development or unfolding of meaning through visual forms over time, such as the stages of vision in Tögal practice.
Sensory Disruption (Therapeutic)
The strategic use of sensory input (e.g., light/sound) to interrupt habitual brain patterns and open a window for reorganization.
Sensory Diversification
A phase involving the expansion of sensory inputs, aimed at challenging the brain’s hierarchical predictions and fostering representational flexibility.
Sensory Enrichment
Adding structured light and sound to support brain flexibility and engagement. NeuroVIZR is a sensory enrichment tool.
Serotonin
A neuromodulator linked to calmness, integration, and emotional balance—supporting the reflective integration stage.
Serotonin
A neurotransmitter involved in mood regulation, sleep, appetite, and emotional balance.
Shamanic Journeying
A trance-like experience facilitated by rhythmic drumming or other techniques. The practitioner “travels” in non-ordinary reality to access insight, healing, or spiritual guidance.
Short Term (Help Right Now)
NeuroVIZR sessions designed to provide immediate relief or support, like calming anxiety or boosting focus.
Sound & Light Journeys
Integrated sessions that use both auditory and visual rhythms to guide the user into specific states.
Spirals (Klüver Constant)
Vortex-like or coiling visual forms often associated with transformation; tied to rotational wave dynamics in the brain.
State Shifting
The intentional movement from one brain/mind state to another, such as from anxiety to calm, or from wakefulness to trance. NeuroVIZR sessions often support rapid and guided state shifts.
Structural Isomorphism
A pattern that appears in both neural systems and visionary states, showing that similar structures generate similar forms of perception.
Structured Unpredictability
Carefully introduced variability in sensory input that maintains engagement without causing disorientation. It keeps the brain alert, responsive, and learning—similar to how a small puzzle challenges without overwhelming.
Structured Variability
Carefully designed small fluctuations in sensory input that maintain engagement, support learning, and promote adaptability.
Substance-Based Relief Encoding
The brain’s attachment of emotional or physical relief exclusively to a chemical input, narrowing alternative paths to wellness.
Surprise
Positive “prediction error” that energizes the brain’s reward and learning systems—used intentionally in stimulation protocols.
Surya Kriya
Surya Kriya is a traditional yogic practice that harnesses the energy of the sun (Surya) to activate and align the body, breath, and mind. It involves a series of precise postures, breath control (pranayama), and focused awareness designed to balance the solar energies within the system. Rooted in ancient Hatha Yoga, Surya Kriya is considered a foundational inner technology for enhancing vitality, clarity, and inner stillness.
Symbolic Integration
The process of connecting abstract or emotional experiences into coherent internal understanding. NeuroVIZR supports this symbol-making function.
Synapse
The gap between two neurons where neurotransmitters are released to transmit signals.
Synaptic Pruning
The brain’s process of eliminating unused or inefficient neural connections—occurs after periods of heightened neuroplasticity to stabilize new models.
Synesthesia (Induced)
A blending of the senses—such as “seeing” sound or “feeling” color—often reported during deep trance or psychedelic states. NeuroVIZR stimulation may evoke temporary synesthetic effects.
Tejas (Radiant Energy)
Tejas is a Sanskrit term meaning "radiance," "luster," or "inner fire." In yogic and Ayurvedic traditions, it refers to the subtle, transformative energy that arises from the balanced interaction of prana (life force) and ojas (vital essence). Tejas is associated with inner illumination, clarity of perception, and the fire of intellect or insight. Physiologically and symbolically, it is linked to metabolic heat, neural activation, and the glow of awareness. In contemplative and visionary states, tejas may be perceived as literal inner light—an energetic manifestation of focused consciousness or spiritual awakening.
Thalamocortical Disinhibition
The loosening of sensory filtering that allows more bottom-up input to reach consciousness—enhancing engagement with novelty and promoting re-learning.
Thalamocortical Loop
A brain circuit connecting the thalamus (sensory relay center) with the cortex. It plays a key role in consciousness, attention, and sensory processing—modulated by rhythmic stimulation. The experience of internal imagery, often geometric or symbolic, triggered by exposure to rhythmic flickering light—typically with eyes closed. Not pathological but a natural response of the visual cortex and thalamus.
Theta Waves
Brainwaves in the 4–7 Hz range, linked to early sleep, drowsiness, deep meditation, and creative or intuitive states. Often activated during light trance or hypnagogic moments.
Thigle
Spherical or orb-like formations of light seen in Tibetan Tögal practice; considered expressions of awareness, not imagined forms.
Time to Recovery
How quickly the brain returns to baseline after stimulation. This can reflect resilience and is a useful metric in evaluating session effectiveness.
Tögal
A visionary meditation practice in Dzogchen Buddhism where structured light forms emerge as progressive visions leading to liberation.
Top-down Inhibition
The brain’s filtering of incoming data based on prior beliefs—helps maintain stability but can also suppress new learning if overactive.
Top-Down Model Collapse
When the brain’s predictive framework is temporarily disrupted, allowing for the emergence of new perspectives and meanings.
Top-Down Processing
The influence of expectations and higher-level thinking on sensory perception, shaping how stimuli are interpreted.
Trance State
A focused, altered state of consciousness marked by reduced awareness of the external world and increased access to internal imagery or intuitive processing. Trance can arise spontaneously or be induced through rhythm and repetition.
Transitional Plasticity Phase
A temporary state during neural change where the brain becomes especially open to input. What is introduced in this phase may reshape future perception and behavior.
Triple Signal Dynamics
NeuroVIZR protocols often use three overlapping patterns (frequency, pulse, and wave shape) to create rich stimulation effects.
Tunnels (Klüver Constant)
Visual perceptions of concentric, tunnel-like patterns; often linked to radial excitation in early visual areas like V1–V3.
USB C Charging
The standard charging method for the NeuroVIZR device, compatible with most modern adapters.
Variable Stroboscopic Stimulation (VSS)
A form of patterned light delivery that avoids simple rhythmic repetition. It introduces structured unpredictability to increase neural variability and promote adaptive change.
Vision as Ontological Event
The idea that visionary perception is not just symbolic or psychological, but reveals the structure of reality itself—a participatory act of knowing.
Visionary Experience
A state of heightened perception marked by vivid imagery, insight, or symbolic meaning—common during deep meditation, psychedelic sessions, or shamanic journeys. Visual sensations of light (e.g., patterns, flashes) perceived without external light, often triggered by pressure, flicker, or brain stimulation. Common during flicker entrainment or meditative states.