-The focus of our research is to understand the electrical activity of the brain under certain circumstances: concentration, relax, stress, calmness,... Transform this electrical activity into sounds, and use this sounds to stimulate certain brain states.
-And you have accomplished that?
-Yes, we have been able to make people relax by playing the sound the brain makes in a relaxed state. We have also improved concentration, and we are still testing some more brain states. Right now we are trying the sounds the brain makes when we are asleep in looks to improve sleep in insomniac people.
-So, there are several applications?
-Yes, there are. We are going to start the clinical trials soon, to see if it works with people who have some kind of concentration problem.
The journalist turned down the recorder.
-That's impressive, Dr. Williams. Thank you, I'll be looking forward to the applications of your work in the future.
Ten years later.
Melissa Williams sees in despair how her discovery has turned into something banal. Shopping malls are using it in order for people to buy more, restaurants for their costumers to eat more, and teenage girls to have guys fall in love with them. All that creeps her out. For sure, it is still used in the medical field, and with high success, but she felt it should have never escaped the field. She had retired to the mountains, as soon as it started having a commercial application. But she could not completely escape its influence, journalists kept calling her in order to ask about such an innovation. Her biggest breakthrough had become a nightmare.
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