I think the "high" portion is more placebo than "science".
There is some evidence that we can influence things like hormones, though.
You wanna get high, I know it.
I'll give this a better go later, but:
it seems plausible that some type of "pattern firing" might spread through the brain, creating certain "brainwaves", so that isn't necessarily far fetched (it actually occurs in epilepsy)
however, looking over pubmed, most of the stuff that talks about binaural beats in terms of clinical application come from "alternative medicine" or "nursing" journals, which I would take with a grain of skepticism
I've been reading about those myself. It seems you need to wear headphones. One pitch is played in one ear and another pitch is played in the other ear creating a beat. It is supposed to alter your brain waves to induce such things a peacefulness and other moods. They usually play them in the back ground of music or nature sounds of water, so you really cannot hear them. When I did it like all day, I got really sleepy. 😑
Originally posted by dadudemon
There is some evidence that we can influence things like hormones, though.
no there isn't
even in the anxiety/stress research, nobody has done an actual measure of blood cortisol. it is all "trait-anxiety" scales and behavioural/self-report measures
Originally posted by Deja~vu
When I did it like all day, I got really sleepy. 😑
how would you have had to have felt after listening to the stimuli so that you would have said it had no effect though?
you got sleepy, were you supposed to get sleepy? or did you just spend all day with headphones on and were now tired
Well, I read there was some skepticism about it, but I only tried the lower frequencies. The ones I did listen to and saved were quite peaceful. Also, I noticed that I had been agitated for a few days before, and after a few days of listening to them, I was feeling pretty well and happy and in a really good mood. I don't know if it was a coincidence or not.
I think I'll try listening to higher waves and see if I get more energetic like it says.
Oh, and I found them all on Youtube.
Originally posted by inimalistWell, the skeptics were stating the same thing as you are, So I really don't know.
ok, but do you not think that knowing you should be energized by the tones might make you energized, and not the beats themselves?
I wish I had saved the site that really got into detail about how they are made and who came up with this. All I remember is that these tones are frequency tones and different frequencies are said to change your brain frequencies by your brain mimicking the tones or frequencies.
Who knows. I couldn't find that one site, but this one is a guy who explalins the different brain waves and alters his with his EEG machine or something to that fact.
Originally posted by Deja~vu
Who knows. I couldn't find that one site, but this one is a guy who explalins the different brain waves and alters his with his EEG machine or something to that fact.
ok, so I watched about a minute and a half, and I'm done
I can't say for sure that his machine isn't measuring alpha, theta and beta waves, but otherwise, every statement he has said is false
for instance, the right/left split being logic/art is laughable
god, I hope he isn't talking while he is doing the EEG, because, you know, as a well trained practitioner of neuroimaging technology, he would understand the artifacts that would produce in the signal. Or does he talk about methodology after the 2 min point? did I miss it?
EDIT: lol, ok, so maybe he wasn't.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D_Mnuzp4ck&feature=related
Ooo I wish I had something to smoke for this one. LOL