BINAURAL BEATS, what are these things

Works for some, doesn't for others. Might just be codswallop and placebo.

dl'd a bunch of em off pirateBay a few months back,, have yet to buy headphones to try em out tho. kids keep stealing mine.

Originally Posted by Comatoke

tried them twice, very much under the influence.
hasnt much captured my attention much outside of that. there are incredible claims about it one way or another.
how much is true how much is fact do you use or would you use these things?

heres a couple articles i read, pretty basic info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_beats
http://web-us.com/thescience.htm

...pretty cool stuff When I listen for a bit and 'let go' the sound moves from vibrato to tremolo.

For example, the claim that a binaural beat with a frequency of X produces the same effect in your brain as Vicodin is wholly implausible. Such claims presume that we know the exact frequency of the electroencephalogram in each of these desired conditions, and the fact is that brain waves don't work that way. It is wholly and absolutely implausible to say that desired brain condition X will occur if we get your EEG to read exactly X Hz.

Not only that, binaural beats presume that brain waves work in the opposite way that they do. Certain brain states produce certain brain waves; brain waves don't produce brain states. You just don't turn a dial to 6.5 Hz and induce instant happiness.

A 2008 study at Hofstra University played two different binaural beats and a control sound (a babbling brook) to patients with high blood pressure. There was no difference between the groups. In one small study from Japan that was published in the Journal of Neurophysiology in 2006, they played various binaural beats to nine subjects, and observed the resulting EEGs. They found great variability in the results. Their conclusion was that listening to binaural beats can produce activity on the human cerebral cortex, however the cause was more likely a conscious auditory reaction and was not correlated to the frequency of the binaural beat.

We've never found any reliable indication that a binaural beat's connection to our brain is any deeper or more meaningful than any other music track. We do know for a reasonable certainty that specific claims made by most sellers of binaural beats are not credible, and that there is no reason to think that the effect they're claimed to produce will work for you.

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4147

^^^ well, there ya go... its all in your head....

Originally Posted by unohu69

^^^ well, there ya go... its all in your head....

...well, yes - and no. It's a choice to analyze it. Part of my post was about that very thing. When I stopped thinking about the fact that I was listening to 'x' thing the tones no longer produced a vibration. It became a hum that I was able to 'sink' into. Not much wrong about that

right on, i was being mildly sarcastic I think from what I have read and understand about the theory of it all, is the mind is a powerful thing, and any form of meditation and working of the subconscious can be of benefit. personally i can focus on sounds really easily. If that helps me build a technique that works for meditative purposes, then ill give it a go.

do I think I can listen to a frequency combination and trip? No...