Binaural Beats - Anyone Heard of It?

[Greenday]

Someone was just telling me about them. It sends two waves of sound into you at two slightly different frequencies. As a result, your brain switches towards these frequencies and produces different effects. A higher frequency would make you more alert, awake, etc. A lower frequency would make you more relaxed, and could eventually put you to sleep if you go REALLY low. I can tell which one my friend had just used as he was quite jittery.

[dispatch]

Haven't heard of it, but I have a fascination with these kinds of things and I'll definitely be looking into it!

I'd be careful delving too far into this without doing some research if it messes with how your brain interacts with the rest of your body

[Nurian]

Fear my Wiki-fu!

[Boozy]

I bought a binaural beats iPhone app, and it did nothing for me. It was greatly irritating to listen to. That's about it.

[Greenday]

Trying my first one: Greenday on Crack!

Edit: ~30 minutes later. Don't think I feel quite like I'm on crack, but I'm definitely more awake now than I was in my Advanced Analytical Chem. class. AND I now know what oxaloacetate does (We are apparently getting quizzed on it today. Thanks friends in intro to biochem!).

[Slytovhand]

Hi GD.

Yes, I know of them. I use a binaural backing track to my meditation cd. But in that instance, it's made by 2 microphones in the ears of a styrofoam 'head' - just like normal hearing.

That BrainWaves chart in the link isn't entirely correct with its descriptions for each of the Waves... the lowest on the chart (Delta) is the brain state that people get into when they go into deep trance (shamanistic), and thus, is very visual and experiential.

Whether Binaural tones do anything for you... I've heard differing opinions...

Depending on exactly what you're trying to get out of it, there may well be other ways to achieve those results anyway.