I swear, there’s a delta wave 2HZ,3HZ one thats basically aural Valium 💉 As long as its a good speaker

  • De_Narm@lemmy.world
    21·
    19 days ago

    Just looking on youtube, you can find binaural beats for pretty much anything: inflammation cure, pain relief, changing your eye colour, finding love and becoming rich. All the ones I’ve looked at feature comments from people claiming they’ve helped them.

    They can’t possibly do all of the above and I don’t think there a studies proving anything but a placebo effect.

    And, without truly believing in them, they never had any effect on me. I’ve tried them in my youth.

    • glimse@lemmy.world
      7·
      19 days ago

      I wouldn’t say I “believed” but I tried it with an open mind expecting SOMETHING to happen. I borrowed some expensive headphones from the audio production department at school, got relaxed in my bed with a couple candles going, plugged into my nice DAC and…all I got was bored. I went through like 10 different tracks. Quite the disappointing experience.

      • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        19 days ago

        Anecdotally, I believe they can induce relaxation or stimulation via entrainment. Like if you listen to something low and soft, I think that relaxes you and something high-pitched and loud stimulates

        • Telorand@reddthat.com
          2·
          19 days ago

          Right, but that’s exactly it. It’s still only just anecdotes and subjective claims. It might be that it’s indeed a valid form of treatment, but the evidence we have doesn’t seem to point to that as a rational conclusion.

          Whatever you personally experience might in fact be a placebo effect or confirmation bias.

  • tyo_ukko@sopuli.xyz
    5·
    18 days ago

    I typically listen to these after taking my morning LSD, and do get some psychoactive effects. Strangely the effects are completely different if I take amphetamines or light up the afternoon crack pipe before listening.

    Seriously tho, I just started to listen to this for the first time ever, and it does work as a pretty effective and non-intrusive noise blocker. Easy to ignore.

    Edit: never mind the second point, the surroundings just got quieter at the same time I started to listen.

  • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    19 days ago

    I find them fascinating, but have never found they have such a dramatic effect. Though I tried the Gateway Experience tapes for awhile and definitely slept better when I used them, despite a decided lack of astral travel or whatever.

  • m_f@midwest.social
    3·
    19 days ago

    Maybe a good speaker helps. I’ve tried them before and they’re good background noise for flights, but that’s about all I’ve gotten out of them.