Binaural Research

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2011-07-08T13:15:00.000-04:00

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Nicotine (download)

2010-04-01T18:43:00.002-04:00

Here goes my first attempt at a brain wave entrainment file for beating an addiction... in this case tobacco smoking. After about 2 hours of research and another 2 hours of building the actual file using gnaural, Nicotine.wav has been born. It's a bit rough around the edges though, so I'll polish it up in the coming weeks. It can really be used in place of any addictive substance (i.e. alcohol, benzodiazepines, weak opioids, weak stimulants) but it's suited more for tobacco smoking (nicotine). I'll work on the other drugs later if this proves effective.

Made using a combination of alpha/theta binaural beats with predominating isochronic alpha. You must wear good quality headphones/earbuds for the full effect, but will work to a (much lesser) degree over stereo speakers once you're up close and in between L and R speakers. (within 2 feet) and it must be listened to in its entirety for the desired effect. Visualize yourself smoking a cigarette, preferably with eyes closed, at the 2 minute mark and concentrate on what you are hearing. Comments are welcome since I need to tweak it !!!*

The reason the file is so large is because file compression damages the quality of binaural recordings.... for those not familiar with them. If you find it too annoying, try listening to music at a low volume (about 1/4-1/5 the volume of the recording), like the following:

Anyway, a good way to gauge the appropriate loudness for the file is to raise the volume to the point where the pink noise is audible (it sounds like white noise/radio static). Once you can hear the pink noise, do not turn it up any louder or it may cause a headache. Of course this cannot cure addiction but it may help. Comment if you need any further help on how to properly use this file.

File: Nicotine.wav

Effects: Relaxation, reduced urge to smoke. May experience slight drowsiness and/or a fluttering noise by the 5:30 mark. This is normal and temporary. Increased effectiveness with repeated listenings. Control cravings to mild stimulants/depressants by listening to it every twenty minutes or so (or whenever you smoke).

File size: 86.8 MB

Length (minutes): 8 minutes, 36 seconds.

Binaural beats: yes

Isochronic pulses: yes

Subliminal: no

Pink noise: yes

*Download*

*By downloading this file you agree that I have no responsibility for any damages that may occur as a result of it. Do not drive or operate dangerous machinery while listening to this track. Also people prone to seizures or any type of cardiac problem should NOT listen to it.

Will post more info on it later, including its frequencies and volume of those frequencies.

*Great pun, tweak it, get it? Gosh I'm great.

Site Expansion

2010-04-01T12:06:00.000-04:00

Planning on expanding the site, lots more articles in the works, forums, a real dot-com domain name and broader subject matter once, among other improvements, once i get some funds together.

Yahoo Answers 'Social Experiment'

2010-03-26T23:23:00.006-04:00

This is a bit off topic but two years ago when I was into yahoo answers, *I'm a level 2 answerer, by the way*, I posed this question under the psychology section:

It's pretty straightforward. Just watch the video (link below) in its entirety, then _immediately_ afterwards write 150+ words on whatever comes to mind (could be a story, random topics, some sort of automatic writing, whatever, your current emotional state, suicidality, a philosophical exposition), but it cannot be based directly on the video you have just watched, nor can it be comprised of commentary of said video. It could be anywhere from 150 to 10000 words in length, the sky's the limit (maybe not even the sky, maybe the stars, YOU decide). This is deliberately vague since I can't give any specifics on what this is all about, as it would impact the results.

Here are the unedited responses.

Answer #1

This is really cute! (not the video...but just the whole setup of your question)
Personally I identified with the midget the most. And I felt as if R. Kelly was like the world caving in on my small, stumpy promiscuous self! While the music clearly indicates the influence of the most sophisticated romantic composers, the story represents only the most complex ideas of Freud and Nietzsche. And maybe, just maybe, if this sentence is really long I will be half way to one hundred words. Nope, it was just not that long! I wonder why IFC plays the R. Kelly locked in the closet series so often and advertises R. Kelly as if hes the Van Gogh of hip hop/rap/soap opera! I could probably write a script a million times better, with fembots and astronauts and ACID TRIPS and rick james and, most importantly, the muppets! Now, affirming that I have no life, I will check how many words I have written in Microsoft Word Office, which is a good good program. (172 words)
I like this social experiment. And I like you.
O **** i just read that it cant be based directly on the video. I failed as a lab rat! But I made a rilly entertaining rant!

Answer #2
Today was like any other day, but different in its entirety. The sun rose, the sun baked the land, the sun set, the moon came out, the stars shown bright. Yet, even though this was like any other day, the fact that I discovered the ability to have abilities, it made it an extra ordinary day. In a short time, any power can be learned, but you must first learn how to control and create an ability.

The long and short of it, cars are no longer needed. Transportation as a whole isnt needed. All I have to do now is think of any certain area, and im there. But only if I wish to be, otherwise my thoughts would drive me insane, teleporting hundreds of places per minute would be quite crazy.

I only gained this power cause it happens to be the easiest. Things like dimension transfer, time shifting, and matter creation are extremely hard to master, but by learning lower level things like teleporting and flying, they become ever so easy to learn.

Today I woke, went to work, came home, at dinner, and I still had enough time to visit Tokyo, Miami, and London. Now hows that for a change in a rather plain, ordinary day?

The only catch to the whole power is simple, once you pick your first one and learn it, you have a set amount of different things you can learn. For instance, if you learn teleportation, something like matter creation would be impossible because you have trained yourself for another path, and once set on that path, you cannot go back.

Answer #3
LMFAO!!!!! omg what the hell, and he sanging liken its just sooooo serious. ahahahahahahahhhaahahahahahhahahaaha....…
Youre dumb for posting this. so friggn funny tho, now I have to go and watch all the chapters

why a midget tho...lol

Answer #4

Life is so complicated. So many times we find ourselves in situations where we wish we could turn back the clock and have a "do-over," but, of course, we can't. Unfortunately, we must live with our regrets, our shame, our lapses in judgment. It used to be that when there were problems in relationships, for example, people tried really hard to work them out. I'm thinking now of the 1950's; that supposedly idyllic time when mom's stayed home with the kids and dad's brought home the bacon and the biggest problem was what to cook for dinner. Fast forward to today, 2008 and we have both parents working and tuned out of their children's lives for the most part. Kids have to grow up almost completely on their own. Morals have been thrown out the window and we are now in an "everything goes" society. Violence is everywhere, no one can escape it. Children, mere children, die every day on the streets by gunfire and no one is listening. Spousal Abuse is rampant, of which I, myself, have been a victim. My Ex had guns laying around the house, held a .35 to my head while I was tied to a chair and played Russian Roulette once. He held that same gun to my then four year old sleeping daughter's head in the early morning hours, holding me to his side and whispered in my ear, "if you leave me, this is what will happen to her." Shortly afterwords, I got the courage to leave him, but it still took two more years before I was strong enough to divorce him. It took me going back to court and getting him put on supervised visitation just to get him to lock up all of his weapons during his visitation time with her after she told me he'd pointed weapons at her and "playfully" threatened to "shoot" her. This included a loaded Power Bow and Arrow. To be fair, I have suffered from Major Depression, Dysthymic Disorder (low-level depression), and Generalized Anxiety Disorder for as long as I can remember. I have thought of suicide as an answer to my problems and have thought of using a gun as my way out. I also have ADHD. My daughter has been affected by my stuff, too. However, I have been in therapy and am medicated. My ex would never stay in therapy long enough to be diagnosed with anything, although a psychiatric test we were required to take through the court called the MMPI picked up on his stuff. I have also provided therapy for my daughter, who also has Major Depressive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder and ADHD. She is an adult now and chooses not to take medication. This is difficult for me to watch because her life could be so much easier in the area of relationships. Wow, I think I've wandered away from my beginning thought process, but I think I am finished anyway. The bottom line is that nothing is solved with violence of any kind. It only creates more problems. Unfortunately, being a Christian, I know that things are only going to get worse until Jesus Christ comes back. So, nothing really surprises me. What does surprise me are the questions people ask regarding Natural Disasters getting worse and Global Warming and the like. Again, these things have been foretold in the book of Revelation in the Holy Bible, as well as other places of prophecy in the Bible. It's really no big Surprise at all! Wake up people before it is too late.

Answer #5

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End of answers.

What was the video you ask? R Kelly's Trapped in the Closet Part 11. Draw your own conclusions.

Virtual Thunderstorm

2010-03-18T23:34:00.004-04:00

Listen out for the car that drives by. Excellent example of binaural recording. There is no brainwave entrainment technology in any of these examples from youtube on this page, merely to highlight its potential as a means to convey a 'virtual first person experience.'

Haunted Forest

2010-03-18T23:28:00.003-04:00

Again, why is this not used in games, movies or recording live concerts? Imagine popping in an entire eerie horror movie [the whole thing done with binaural recordings designed to put you in the viewpoint of one of the characters (who knows, maybe you die in the end?)] with lots of subtle 'hallucination' points where you hear a close by whisper, a far off blood curdling yell, someone with a limp getting closer and closer, or hear someone breathing down your neck and then 'bagging' you like in the virtual haircut video (see earlier post) then being beaten to death with a blunt object with headphones on, while watching a POV camera on a close up screen or in hologram? It's the future man and it's scary. And fun.

Scary tits man, scary tits it would be. This particular recording is not very good though. The next one, 'Thunderstorm' is superior in quality.

Virtual Barber Shop

2010-03-18T18:56:00.002-04:00

Will ONLY work with headphones on. Extremely entertaining use of binaural audio... have your 'virtual hair' cut online!

Just wait till you're bagged. Makes me wonder why scary games like FEAR and Silent Hill, bah, rather, all games, do not incorporate binaural recordings. They could even use sound to provoke a fear/anxiety response like I suspect they did in the Paranormal Activity bedroom scenes. Probably too much $$ and effort involved. Oh well.

Brainwave Entrainment/Binaural Beats: A Brief Introduction

2010-03-14T18:43:00.013-04:00

A brief introduction to binaural beats and brainwave entrainment, and the synchronized brain vs. the unsynchronized brain.

Brainwave entrainment is an effect achieved by listening to two slightly different frequencies of sound in the left ear and the right ear; termed binaural tones. These two similar frequencies are processed by the brain, which in turn creates a third warbling beat, as if the two frequencies merged into one resonating sound within your brain.

The centre of the brain mainly responsible for this are the superior olivary nucleus, a part of the brain stem. This phenomenon is known as the "frequency following" response and was discovered in 1839 by Prussian physicist Heinrich Wilhelm Dove.

This region of the brain is responsible for perceiving three-dimensional sounds in the environment and their motion through space. What are the implications of this 'phantom tone' generated? It has the ability to render you into an altered state. For instance many use binaural beats as a tool eg. to relax, enhance concentration, induce trance, produce deep meditative states, for lucid dreaming, sleep and as a platform for out of body experiences/'astral projection'.

The following chart shows common frequencies occurring in the brain, coinciding with their respective effects on the mind. It's important to note here that this is general rule and does not apply for everyone. For example, in those with a mental illness, such as schizophrenia, it is thought that delta waves are abnormally pervasive during the waking state.

> 40 Hz    Gamma waves    Higher mental activity, perception, problem solving, fear/anxiety

13–40 Hz    Beta waves    Eyes open, active, busy or anxious thinking and active concentration, arousal, cognition

7–13 Hz    Alpha waves    Eyes closed, relaxation (while awake), borderline-sleep and pre-wake, drowsiness, meditative states, lucid dreaming

4–7 Hz    Theta waves    Dreaming, deep meditation, Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep

< 4 Hz     Delta waves    Deep dreamless sleep, loss of body awareness

The Unsynchronized and Synchronized Brain

In a brain not subjected to binaural beats in normal waking state, the data from an EEG would reveal the predominant frequencies in the brain to be in the 13-30Hz range (beta waves). The left and right hemispheres would not be synchronized so one side may have more or less than the other. Of course beta waves would not be the only waves in the brain, simply the most dominant as we all have varying volumes of other waves including a few delta, some theta, some alpha as well as gamma in our waking state.

But it's noteworthy that the dominant waves (in this case the beta waves) have the most influence overall on your mental state than any other; just like music played would lessen the perception of a loud fan, so would the predominant waves in your brain 'drown out' the other frequencies to some degree.

Of course if you were in a deep sleep or in REM the reverse would occur, as 1-7Hz take predominance (delta and theta waves) and the higher frequencies become less and less prominent with beta/gamma waves becoming more or less absent. The left and right hemispheres of the brain would be uneven, just like in the beta wave example.

Visualise the unsynchronized brainwave model as an abacus, each bead representing a quantity of a wave, each rack of wood signifying a wave from gammas all the way down to the deltas. The beads are in a constant state of flux: being pushed back and forth, disregarded entirely or unevenly distributed to the left and right sides. The synchronized brain, in contrast, would be mostly even in the quantity of waves on either side of the left and right hemispheres and in the average person would be dominated by beta/alpha waves in an alert waking state.

By synchronizing both hemispheres, they function in synergy rather than one dominating the other; thereby reducing the power struggle and increasing the efficiency of the brain. Binaural beats aren’t the only means of achieving synchronicity between hemispheres, in fact rhythmic sounds such as drum beats or music may achieve the same ends, although you would not be able to program which frequency your brain would follow.

News - day one

2010-03-14T18:38:00.004-04:00

Welcome. Binaural Research is my website dedicated to the study of brainwave entrainment and its fascinating possibilities in expanding conscious awareness and in achieving altered states. Bear with me as I go about submitting rough new posts and editing them over the course of a few weeks.

If you would like to help in this endeavor to advance our understanding and find new applications for binaural beats/brainwave entrainment, feel free to visit the contact page as new informative articles are greatly appreciated, especially if you have access to an EEG.