I was wondering what anyone knows about bi-neural beats. I recently got a free CD from a web site and it is a very effective tool for relaxation and also aids in my daily meditation, but I am not incredibly familiar with the technology it uses (bi-neural beats). Has anyone studied this? What about the phantom sounds? The CD is free at www.audionoesis.com if anyone wants to check it out.

Thanks

I have long been interested in binaural beats for a long time (Incidently, I never thought of it as bi-neural, I assumed it broke down to bin-aural, as in two sounds, but I could be wrong). I find that this works very well for meditation. I use Bwgen, but have never used one of the many CDs sold. If you want to understand the technology, you should look at this article I wrote for ld4all about lucid dreaming with bwgen: http://ld4all.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9906

I have created a few presets myself that I use for meditation and relaxation each day (good for nootropic effect I feel). Have a look on the bwgen preset library ( http://www.bwgen.com/presets.htm ) , there are hundreds of useful presets.

they can put you in a relaxed mood but otherwise I haven't found them useful

Lucid they can be useful for Lucid Dreaming its based off the WILD, basically every 90 minutes you enter REM dream state, now if you wake up enough to be consciously aware while still being asleep then you have conscious or lucid dreaming. Its a simple concept of putting 'spikes' every 90 minutes to create LD by increasing the frequency to about 6 or so hz then dropping it back down to 0 or .5 again.

I've never listened to them during sleep. Wearing earphones to sleep would be uncomfortable but I will probably give it a try. My bouts of lucid dreaming aways occur seemingly spontaneously, after several hours of sleep preceeding their onset.

Thanks for the responses. I have actually had quite a bit of success with Lucid Dreaming and my quality of meditation. Much more frequent LD's than I had before.

Lz