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Originally Posted by ixtlan22
I tried a free "dose" from Wikipedia (it's in the article under: Binaural Beats). It was pretty interesting. I could obviously speculate that it was a placebo effect but either way I found the experience enjoyable. This sample starts with a 20Hz beat, gradually slows down to btwn. 7 and 8 Hz and then gradually speeds back up to 16hz.
As the beats slowed down, I found body warming up. I was still the whole time, lying face up on my bed. My body may have just been heating up but my heart rate increased a little and I had a euphoric feeling that increased as time went on. As the beating speed began to increase again there was a very noticeable difference in my brain activity. I didn't hallucinate in any way but my imagination began to run far more wild. This is not an uncommon thing for me when I am resting but the changing of speeds definitely seemed to act as a catalyst. I also had a very different perception of time as the increase from 8 Hz to 16 felt like at least a third of the process when in reality it was only 5 of 30 minutes.
Overall: I think that the "dose" acted as a good form of assisted meditation and I appreciated the affect it had on me, placebo or not. I'm going to try another "dose" and see what the results are. I was definitely pleasantly surprised. The Wikipedia article cleared up some questions I had, but as always Wikipedia is sketchy at best.
Binaural beats - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
I remember my first "Introduction to Sound" course. The teacher came with an oscilloscope (donno what it's called specifically) to let us hear the different frequencies. He showed us the limits of our hearing as usual. Then he just went from 20Hz to 2kHz in 2 seconds and then back to 20Hz at the same speed, like to end the thing. And I remember feeling extremely nauseous instantly. It was like my mind is closing on itself in a really nightmarish way (during these brief 4 seconds) but man that nausea was really ugly the next hours.
So I do believe frequencies can get to you. So maybe different orders have different effects. I still haven't tried any, as it's the first time I hear about it. I think I'll give it a listen pretty soon, I'm really curious about these things.