Thread: Research On Binaural Beats

I've become very intrested in Binaural Beats lately, and I would like to find out about all of your experences with them. Please take part in the poll, and discuss your experences with them.

EDIT: I made a mistake with my poll, the "If you answered "Yes, it certainly worked" to the previous question," shouldn't be there. Regardless of how it worked, answer the question as "Where did you get it?". Thanks...

Bwgen is amazing. Use it consistently to do a sort of self hypnosis to induce lucid dreams, and to increase your willpower towards dreaming, and you'll get something in all likelyhood. I've had a few lucid dreams this way.

I like it so much I even did a review of it.

These have worked for me occasionally but not consistently. Once in a non-lucid dream I thought the music and voices had gotten "stuck" in my head (I could hear it playing even tho I thought I was up and walking around without headphones), and I thought I had caused myself permanent brain damage. Just a dream, luckily my brain was no more damaged than before. I still use it occasionally and recently purchased somesubliminals from e-bay. I've got them all on my mp3 player, along with some other theta-wave stuff, and I'm really not sure if it was the binaural or the hemi-sync or the subliminals that have recently worked for me. I'm not very scientific about this, maybe just plain music played softly would work. I haven't really experimented enough, and after I fall asleep I'm not sure what is playing when I'm dreaming. I think it is worth a try, if you can sleep with headphones on.

I dabbled a bit in binaural beats a few months back. At the momewnt, I've started using them regularly as of last night. There's a definite effect, though I'm not sure what and how consistant. I'll keep using them overnight and keep this thread updated with my experiences, if you want, Elastic Onion?

I'm using BwGen, using a preset made by some-one else. Forget what it is, I'll tell you later when I remember. The preset has four "blocks": One 45-minute one for falling asleep, one 30-minute one for deep sleep, one for REM 30 minutes, and a 15-minute one to wake you up.

I woke up early, and got a bunch of vivid dreams which I recalled kind of scattered. I came close to lucidity, performing a RC in my dream. I can't remember whether it worked though.

The most telling phase was the "falling asleep" block. I got some pronounced WILD sensations and strange breathing feelings, but it did send me to sleep.

The good thing about the preset is that you can put the fall asleep block at the start of the playlist on your ipod or mp3 player, the wake up block at the end, and put as many REM and deep sleep 30-minute "chunks" in the middle of the playlist as you want. It's very versatile.

Originally Posted by The

I'll keep using them overnight and keep this thread updated with my experiences, if you want, Elastic Onion?[/b]

Yes, that would be great!

As for me, I've downloaded a few mp3s from the internet, but they didn't seem to have an effect, sadly...

Originally Posted by Elastic

As for me, I've downloaded a few mp3s from the internet, but they didn't seem to have an effect, sadly...[/b]

Well, if anyone wants the ones I'm using, PM me your email and I'll see if I can dig out the mp3s I got a while ago, or find some later versions. Because to use bwgen and make your own is complicated, and you have to pay to register the program to use other people's presets. Also, if we get a number of people using the same mp3s as part of a research esperiment (?that maybe Elastic Onion wants to set up and conduct?), that way we can get more reliable results since we're using the same mp3s.

Originally Posted by The

Well, if anyone wants the ones I'm using, PM me your email and I'll see if I can dig out the mp3s I got a while ago, or find some later versions. Because to use bwgen and make your own is complicated, and you have to pay to register the program to use other people's presets. Also, if we get a number of people using the same mp3s as part of a research esperiment (?that maybe Elastic Onion wants to set up and conduct?), that way we can get more reliable results since we're using the same mp3s.
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I forgot to mention the real problem... I'm on a Mac, so no BWgen for me... thats why I've been downloading mp3s and other random stuff I come across. I need to get a better pair of headphones, too. But your idea about many people using the same mp3 is great. If you can find any of your most sucessful b. beat mp3s, we could use those. In the meantime, I might test them out on my little sister without telling her what they are. That way placebo wouldn't be possible...

Well, I used the same binaural beats again last night. I think I need to get a new preset, the one I;m using works, but leaves me with headaches and has too short SEM cycles and too long a "go to sleep" cycle. I tried to WILD last night assisted by the binaural beat sleep cycle, but it didn't quite come out.

There's a pronounced effect of WILD-like vibrations and drowsyness about 20 minutes in to the go-to-sleep segment, and I DID remember a few dreams earlier on ij the night than I usually do, but not sure how much of that is the beats.

I've tried it before, but always encounter a problem; at night, when I wear headphones, they fall off about 30 minutes after I goto sleep. As for using them for mediation techniques, nothing has ever produced anything other than a slightly strange feeling in my limbs.