That doesn’t mean you should give up hope though. In terms of proof that they help support lucid dreaming, there’s actually not much research that’s been done on this. I wrote a guide on listening to binaural beats to lucid dream, there’s lots of information there. This can be done by listening to certain binaural beats tracks a the right time. However, you also want to try and stimulate your brain to be more aware and active during REM sleep. These things can supplements like melatonin or other things. Mainly you want to look for things that lengthen the REM sleep you have, and make dreams more vivid. Lucid dreaming can be induced and supported in a number of ways. You can induce or support lucid dreaming by listening to Theta waves during your WBTB techniques. The study for this (2) showed that listening to Theta binaural beats helped people fall asleep faster than they normally would have.Īgain, we’re seeing this evidence of Theta waves being very important for our sleep and dream life, an effect that also occurs on lucid dreaming. They can help your brainwaves get into the right state for falling asleep quickly and deeply. I think there are a number of ways you can improve your sleep but binaural beats are looking like a great option. 2: Makes falling asleep easierįalling asleep is hard enough as it is, but the stress of our modern day life makes it that much harder. But by worrying about them, we make the problem out of nothing, and cause our health to suffer. We’re getting stressed and worrying about things that literally have no influence on our survival or wellbeing. I’ve known people that have carried the stress of being late to work with them for about a week after the event! It’s amazing how stressed we are, collectively. I think reducing stress is a very important thing that we need to focus on as a society.

This feeling can be compounded by meditating as well, for about ten minutes a day. It’s been shown (1 – I’ll link to all the studies and references at the bottom of the post) that listening to Beta binaural beats can reduce stress and make users feel calmer and more relaxed. They’re not in any particular order either, because I can’t say that one benefit is any more important than another. I’ll try and link to the studies wherever I can as well, for those who want to do some further reading. These are just the most common ones, and also the ones that have had studies done on them to validate the findings. Now we’ll dive into the benefits of binaural beats, but bear in mind that these are not ALL of them. They all have slightly different effects as well, depending on the brainwave state they’re targeting. So you can essentially tune your brainwaves to different frequencies by playing different binaural beats tracks. The ghost tone is a mixture of the two frequencies, and your brainwaves get ‘tuned’ to the DIFFERENCE between the two tones. So it ends up mixing them together and creating a ‘ghost tone’. By playing two slightly different frequencies (one in each ear) the effect is that your brain can’t properly perceive the two tones. It takes a bit longer than the tuning fork, usually about 10-40 minutes but it still happens reliably.īinaural beats aren’t actually ONE tone, but two. By creating a ‘tone’ the beats are able to cause your brainwaves to start vibrating at a certain frequency over time. It’s sort of the same thing with the binaural beats. It’s sort of the same thing, imagine hitting one tuning fork and then letting it vibrate next to another one.Īfter a few seconds the second tuning fork starts vibrating at the same frequency as the first one. How do they workīinaural beats work in a strange way. Very useful for doing almost anything, for example focusing, studying, sleeping better, lucid dreaming or anything else.

Gamma Waves (38-100 Hz) – Not a very well understood brainwave state, but believed to be linked to spirituality, deep relaxation, your third eye and pineal gland and lucid dreaming etcĪnd through binaural beats, we’re able to actually practically DECIDE which of these brainwave states we want to be in at any one time.

Beta Waves (12-38 Hz) – Probably the MAIN brainwave state for focus concentration, cognitive function and higher level thinking.

Alpha Waves (8-12 Hz) – This is one of the focused brainwave states linked to concentration, focus and cognitive function/higher level thinking.

Theta Waves (3-8 Hz) – This is the state you’re in when you meditate, lucid dream and deeply relax.Delta Waves (0.5-3 Hz) – These are deep, slow waves linked to sleep with no dreams (NREM sleep).Your brainwaves operate in one of 5 brainwave states at any given time. The word ‘binaural’ comes from the latin literally meaning ‘involving both ears’. 10: Improves cognitive function and flexibilityīinaural beats are a type of soundwave that you can listen to through stereo headphones that can have profound effects on your brainwave states.

Binaural meditation benefits