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Originally Posted by XeutonMojukai  I should also mention: when I was in about 3rd grade, my parents had an EEG of my brain done.
I was almost constantly using theta waves: the waves used in REM sleep. |
I have heard that kids under 6 years are in theta and earlier, infants are in even lower brain wave frequencies. This is when the human brain is absorbing and taking in everything. The theta state is very receptive and imaginative. Kids that are playing actually believe what they are doing is real. That "make believe" in their state is pretty real to them.
Quoting from this web site:
Bruce Lipton Ph.D.: Conscious Parenting Quote:
DELTA waves (0.5-4 Hz), the lowest level of activity, are primarily expressed between birth and two years of age. When a person is in DELTA, they are in an unconscious (sleep-like) state. Between two years and six years of age, the child begins to spend more of its time in a higher level of EEG activity characterized as THETA (4-8 Hz). THETA activity is the state we experience upon just arising, when we are half asleep and half awake. Children are in this very imaginative state when they play, creating delicious pies made out of mud or gallant steeds from old brooms.
The child begins to preferentially express a still higher level of EEG activity called ALPHA waves around the age of six. ALPHA (8-12 HZ) is associated with states of calm consciousness. At around 12 years, the child's EEG spectrum may express sustained periods of BETA (12-35 HZ) waves, the highest level of brain activity characterized as "active or focused consciousness."
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