Safety

When not to use it

Do not run a session if you are hearing or seeing things others do not, feel that people are out to get you, have a condition where you lose track of who or where you are, are living with active PTSD or a recent trauma, are in a crisis right now, have been drinking or taking drugs, or are about to drive. Before every self-hypnosis session and every guided journey, the app asks you a few quick questions to check you are steady. There is no setting that skips them.

Coming back to normal

Every session ends the same way: the voice brings you back step by step, so you are properly awake and know where you are before it finishes. This is built into the app, not left to chance. If you feel drowsy afterwards, sit for a minute before you stand up, and do not drive until you feel fully alert.

Lying down, and falling asleep

Lying down is fine. The ending plays whether your eyes are open or shut, because it runs on a timer. One thing to know: the app cannot tell if you have fallen asleep, and it will not wake you if you sleep through the end. That is fine in bed. It is not fine anywhere you need to be awake.

Sound and light

Everything in the app is sound. Nothing on the screen flashes or pulses, so there is no risk for people with light-triggered epilepsy. Keep the volume comfortable. Nothing here needs to be loud.

The guided journeys

"A younger time", "Another life" and "Drifting back" are guided imaginings for reflection. Each one says so at the start, before anything else. What you picture is treated as imagination, not as a real memory coming back, and never as something to base a real-life decision on. The voice never suggests what you should see. That matters, because being led towards particular scenes is how false memories get made. You can stop at any point.

If you are in crisis

Please talk to someone now: your GP, a mental health helpline, or 999 if you are in immediate danger. In the UK, Samaritans are free on 116 123, day or night.

What the app will never say

It has no brain sensor, so it cannot tell what state your mind is in, and it never pretends to. It shows you readings, like your breathing rate, and calls them readings. It never says you reached a special state, never says any kind of contact happened, and never says a practice is proven when it is not. Where the science is thin, the app says so.