Binaural beats

badcompany · 9 May 2011 at 22:30

Binaural beats

Binaural beats or binaural tones are auditory processing artifacts, or apparent sounds, the perception of which arises in the brain for specific physical stimuli. This effect was discovered in 1839 by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, and earned greater public awareness in the late 20th century based on claims that binaural beats could help induce relaxation, meditation, creativity and other desirable mental states. The effect on the brainwaves depends on the difference in frequencies of each tone, for example, if 300 Hz was played in one ear and 310 in the other, then the Binaural beat would have a frequency of 10 Hz

Listening to this will it help me sleep?

Jono · 9 May 2011 at 22:31

Listen to rain and a thunderstorm. That'll help you sleep. I'm serial.

badcompany · 9 May 2011 at 22:40

what like a recording of thunderstorm? sounds like it might work as I like thunder storms.

Narj · 9 May 2011 at 22:42

Jono said:
Listen to rain and a thunderstorm. That'll help you sleep. I'm serial.

I overlaid a thunderstorm recording with pink noise... that really did the trick for me.

Jono · 9 May 2011 at 22:51

badcompany said:
what like a recording of thunderstorm? sounds like it might work as I like thunder storms.

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badcompany · 9 May 2011 at 23:05

Cool many thx.

SlugForAButt · 9 May 2011 at 23:11

Headphones giving you Alan Titchmarsh discussing his favourite gardening moments of the last three hundred years should see you off nicely. No need for all this new fangled kerfuffle, just use the Alan Titchmarsh method.

sigma · 9 May 2011 at 23:16

There is a website that plays rain/thunderstorm sounds.... will go and find the link.

sigma · 9 May 2011 at 23:24

http://www.rainymood.com/

dowie · 9 May 2011 at 23:31

Didn't a bunch of credulous types start up stories about 'digital drugs' as a result of these.

kayomani · 9 May 2011 at 23:37

Having tried some of them out before I would say the technology does work however the quality of the works out there on the interwebs is of varying quality and hence varying results. You have to be open to possibility that it will work and it'll only be of subtle effect - I can’t really say if it was greater than the placebo effect. Binaural beats isn’t the only one out there e.g. isotonic tones http://www.iso-tones.com/tones.html - Some things do seem pseudoscience at best though lols

Rainmaker · 9 May 2011 at 23:44

I only has one ear. Binaural fail.

linktoinsanity · 9 May 2011 at 23:51

badcompany said:
Listening to this will it help me sleep?

For sleep yeh it should work as I think the sound is meant to stimulate a certain area of the brain and therefore trigger sleep.

XRAY said:
I tried it once. It was supposed to get me high without me actually doing anything... It didn't work.

Honestly can't see how this would work myself. A bit more complicated to induce moods rather than sleep isn't it?

ChrisJSY · 10 May 2011 at 00:16

LinktoInsanity said:
Honestly can't see how this would work myself. A bit more complicated to induce moods rather than sleep isn't it?

Aside from the topic, remember how much chemical imbalances in the brain can alter mood, as well as what changes them in the first place. If hearing something can do this, that's how.

bhavv · 10 May 2011 at 00:16

Doesnt work for me, one ear is too deaf.

Huw · 10 May 2011 at 00:37

bhavv said:
Doesnt work for me, one ear is too deaf.

Deafness in one ear shouldn't be a problem; it's a physiological effect that doesn't depend on you actually hearing anything.

To the OP, yes, binaural beats will help you sleep. They can do plenty of other things too. I used to use a program called Brainwave Generator that had presets for things like headache treatment. It really does work.