Readit NewsAs is tradition with these kinds of things.
“Physical Activity, Mindfulness Meditation, or Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback for Stress Reduction: A Randomized Controlled Trial”
I also misremembered, breathwork wasn't directly looked at as an intervention method, but I believe the HRV biofeedback did involve it to some degree.
On that note, you might find the Medlife Crisis' video where he investigates the genre of "people roleplaying as doctors giving you a check-up using an ASMR voice" entertaining, and also enlightening on why some people do like it[0]. Don't worry, it doesn't feature too many actual clips of that.
The goggles w/ binaural beats create some weird sort of state where I don't feel any connection to my environment. After only a couple minutes my body turns to total mush and my brain comes alive with phosphene visuals. By about 15 minutes in, my stomach usually gurgles a bit, not unlike the indigestion that often accompanies psychedelic trips.
Interestingly enough, these machines are marketed as brainwave entrainment, but the literature on that says the visual component doesn't really have much impact. Yet auditory entrainment on its own doesn't seem to do much for me either, or at least, not convincing enough beyond placebo.
There is an app for the iPhone called Lumenate that uses the LED flash and it seems to work, though it's not as strong for me as the multi-LED goggles I used to use. Still, it's a great gateway for those who are curious.
I guess if we'd want to know for sure we'd need to test the light and sound technique with people who haven't used psilocybin before, then let them try psilocybin so they can compare the experience, and then let them try the light and sound machine again to see if anything changed in how "suggestive" they are to the experience. And compare against a light-and-sound machine only control group. I doubt we'll see that happen any time soon though.
Anyway, under the assumption that I'm correctly guessing what you have in mind when using the words "serious language", Uiua certainly qualifies. The author is very passionate about exploring and discovering "the good parts" of the design space of the array language paradigm, and has put a ton of work into making it accessible and practically useful within the constraints of being an interpreted language that autoformats its source code to at-first exotic looking maths symbols.
My issue with APL is I was never able to turn the corner to "generic problem solving" in APL (or other array langs). It feels like learning written Chinese, like 50,000 individual techniques but if you know them you can do incredible things quickly. For the problems I know how to solve, I can solve them quickly. And you CAN do amazing things with inner products in APL.
On the other hand, studying APL, even if you don't master it, is not without benefits. LLM transformer architecture and GraphBLAS algorithms are junior APL level implementation problems (at least conceptually, operationalizing them is a different story).
Adam Brudzewski has one of the most criminally underrated YouTube channels[2]. It would be great to solve problems that elegantly in any language, and Adam has always been very friendly in answering questions if you ever get a chance to speak with him. I just seem to be a lost cause lol.
Part of that is because unlike other APL-likes it uses a stack (sort of) and I can't explain exactly how but it made it much easier for me to picture how the data flows from one operation to the next (I have to admit I like concatenative languages a lot so I'm obviously biased here too).
On top of that none of the glyphs are overloaded with monadic and dyadic versions, they're one or the other, which reduces ambiguity a lot when trying to read/write code.
There's lots of other little ergonomic tweaks to it that make it really neat, but those were the big ones for me.
Also worth noting is that it has lots of multimedia support - you can generate pictures, gif animations, sounds. So it's easy to "play" with for fun!
RIP, razetime.
[0] https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26416/in-m...
In Norway, if a restaurant abuses its staff, it's not just the staff that will strike or sympathetic customers who will organize a boycott. It's the plumbers who won't show up to fix the sink that breaks, the carpenters who won't show up to patch up a dented door jam or install a new shelf, and the shippers who won't drive ingredients out to the restaurant anymore.
In the US, that kind of coordinated cross-discipline striking is explicitly illegal (I'd have to go look up my history to confirm, but I believe that was related to the federal intervention to stop the rail strikes because it disrupted mail delivery).
edit: for the people who missed it, I was making a joke about the username of the person I was replying to. Not actually a conspiracy theorist