The Sychedelic Protocol

At its core, the central nervous system defends against sudden shifts in mood, focus, or arousal. In biological terms, this is homeostasis. Through homeostasis, your brain resists any rapid changes in mood, focus or energy. When you try to "will" yourself into focus or calm, you're pushing against that resistance. Music can help, but it often hits a ceiling. The neurons responsible for cognition and regulation simply stay in their existing firing patterns.

When stress, fatigue, or distraction set in:

• Neurons require more effort to fire

• The action potential threshold rises

• Your brain gets stuck in its current pattern

This is the biological barrier that stands between you and a cognitive shift.

Today's overstimulated, underslept users rely on temporary fixes (teas, apps, pills), though they are not personalized. Pills and teas are usually one size fits all and apps majorly rely on user inputs to recommend some meditation or breathing exercises which they can't really optimize for individuals.

There's a gap between awareness and action. Most tools only tell you that you're stressed, they don't help you fix burnout, distraction, insomnia or rising mental fatigue.

Embedded in the earcup is a photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor, a light-based system that measures changes in blood volume under the skin. This allows continuous tracking of:

• Heart Rate

• Heart Rate Variability (HRV)

• Markers of arousal, stress, and recovery

PPG provides a responsive feedback loop that:

• Personalizes stimulation

• Tracks how your body reacts over time

• Helps optimize protocol selection

Through psychophysiological context, the Sychedelic app figures out what zone you are in and how we can help you shift states. Example, If you are stressed, the basic idea would be to give you 16Hz, but, this can also cause panic. The Sychedelic engine figures out what is best for you depending upon how you are feeling at the moment, and recommends the shift, i.e. in this case, it will calm you down first with 10Hz and then give 16Hz to get you in the zone.

Sychedelic doesn't just monitors — it stimulates!

This combination of stimulation + tracking + feedback makes Sychedelic a closed-loop wearable.

At the heart of every Sychedelic headset are integrated conductive nodes that deliver a microcurrent(0.5-2.0mA) to targeted regions of the scalp. tDCS focuses on something called the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Think of it as your brain's command centre. It handles focus, decision-making, emotions, and complex thoughts.

What tDCS actually does

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) delivers sub-threshold direct current (0.5 – 2.0 milliAmps) that modulates neural excitability without forcing action potentials.

The idea is to slightly modulate the resting membrane potential of neurons, making them more or less excitable depending on polarity (anodal or cathodal stimulation).

When applied over target brain regions (e.g. dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, DLPFC), tDCS can help enhance neural plasticity, improve top-down control of emotion and cognition, and potentially shift mental states toward more focus, calm, or recovery.

Unlike high-intensity stimulation, tDCS doesn't make neurons fire, it adjusts the membrane potential of neurons, bringing them closer to or farther from activation thresholds:

Anodal stimulation (positive): At the neuronal level, it is often described as causing depolarization of membrane potential (bringing neurons closer to firing threshold).

Cathodal stimulation (negative): At the cellular level, it is often described as causing hyperpolarization (moving membrane potential further from firing).

In simpler terms: tDCS primes your brain, lowering the effort required to transition from one state to another.

tDCS is like warming up an engine.

It doesn't drive the car, but it makes instant acceleration possible.

Why This Matters

When neural circuits are primed:

• Learning, attention, and adaptation happen faster.

• Shifts in state (e.g., focus → calm → recovery) occur reliably.

With tDCS priming the cortex, audio takes control.

Standard headphones compress sound, destroying the subtle frequency differences required for entrainment. Sychedelic does not.

Binaural Processing

At the core of our audio strategy is binaural processing. This occurs when two slightly offset frequencies are delivered separately to each ear. Your brain resolves the difference by generating a phantom third frequency.

These difference frequencies correspond to classic brainwave bands:

• Delta (0.5–4 Hz): Deep restorative states

• Theta (4–8 Hz): Creativity, daydreaming, deep relaxation

• Alpha (8–13 Hz): Calm focus and meditation

• Beta (13–32 Hz): Alertness, logic, executive processing

Because of tDCS priming, the brain locks onto this rhythm significantly faster than with audio alone.

Sychedelic activates a two-pronged response to guide mind:

• Neuromodulation (The Foundation): A constant, low-intensity tDCS current (0.5–2 mA) is delivered to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (F3/F4 sites), lowering the neuronal firing threshold and enhancing brain readiness and plasticity. Crucially, the effects of stimulation are highly dependent on the brain state during delivery. By pairing stimulation with tasks and incorporating brainwave entrainment (e.g., binaural or isochronic tones), the system amplifies plasticity in targeted neural circuits, leading to significantly stronger and longer-lasting results than passive or "offline" use.

• Auditory Entrainment (The Guide): Simultaneously, the AI adjusts binaural beats to gently steer your brainwaves toward your desired mental state.

The Sychedelic Synergy:

• tDCS = The Gas Pedal (Increases Neuroplasticity)

• Binaural Beats = The Steering Wheel (Directs the Frequency)

Sychedelic bridges that gap by combining safe, targeted brain stimulation (tDCS) with real-time physiological sensing and mood-tuned audio to actively shift your state, not just monitor it. Whether you need focus, calm, or sleep, Sychedelic delivers an AI-personalized neuro-acoustic session tailored to your current zone (e.g., stress, fog, fatigue) and your intended goal. Just a 20-minute session that shifts how one feels.