Binaural beats experience

[ange.connell]

Thought I'd share what happened to me last night. My friend gave me a binaural beats recording a few days ago and last night I thought I'd try it out to see what would happen. Ive never had any OOBE AP before (don't think I did last night either) but here goes. All the following happend. My hands started tingling then I couldn't feel my arms. The back of my head felt heavy like as if I would not be able to lift even if I wanted to. My breathing was very shallow and heart beat very laboured and I had an 'ache' n the middle of my chest. My feet were doing what I would call an Irish jig!! Next my body felt like somebody was shaking it very quickly and I had a feeling of 'swirling'. Then as I concentrated on the blackness behind my eyes I felt myself moving rapidly down a black 'tunnel' but not a tunnel just the sensation of going faster and faster and faster. Then the recording stopped and so did all the feelings. I was so excited I txt my friend at 12.30am (GMT) to tell him. Cannot wait to try it again. Any comments welcomed but just thought Id tell my story

Take care x

[stevetrindall]

Sounds very interesting. From what you said it sounds like you was very close to having an OBE. Next time you get these feelings why don't you try using a exit Technique I.e rope climb and see what happens.

Good luck

[ZiggyMike]

What kind of binaural beats were you using my dear.

[Szaxx]

Hi,
If you van get to this point again relax, rub your hands together and youll start to see things. The tunnel you were experiencing may have led you to a beautiful astral place, an experience youll always remember.
Try to think of your friends after the experience has ended. The conversation will be so much better.
You almost made it.

[ange.connell]

ZiggyMike

Dont know which Binaural beats it was but will find out off my friend and let you know. He is on the pulse so if he reads this he may reply to you before I do. Its the first time I have used the beats and was pleased with my achievments, just want more and better now

[KarmicBeats]

What kind of binaural beats were you using my dear.

Inquiring minds want to know

[ange.connell]

To the two who asked which binaural beats Ive been listening to - Ive asked my friend who did the recording for me and he cannot remember. Sorry. But if he does remember I will let you know. Ive listened to the recording again last night and had some really good results. Not an actural AP/OOBE but I did feel as though I was even closer than before. Body shaking, but felt like I could not move my body no matter how hard I tried. My friend suggested I try and roll out of my body as I get this 'swaying' sensation as soon as I start listening. Will def be trying it again.

[ange.connell]

ZiggyMike & KarmicBeats

Try this site. The 2nd one 30mins

http://diydharma.org/keywords/binaural-beats

[KarmicBeats]

Thanks. 

They are using Schumann Resonances.  I never thought of those for astral projection or lucid dreaming.

Does anyone else have good results with Schumann Resonances?

[Gnome]

I don't know if this will help anyone as I'm not sure how these beats work so forgive me if I am wrong on the subject.

I was hearing talks of these sounds hitting frequencies low as 7hz to work. Industry Standard active monitors for producing music usually only go down to around 40hz lowest. Commercial speakers can state that they go that low but there is something called 'Flat frequency response'. Professional equipment will label frequency range and response e.g. 40hz - 20,000hz +-2db. The +- means that when it goes down to the lower in say 40hz the volume will decrease by 2 decibels. When the sound enters the higher frequency range the db will increase by 2db's roughly. +- 2 db is a very good response. Commercial equipment will have much worse response rendering the amplitude of say, 40hz near to nothing. Amplitude is important to enable the feel of low frequencies (sound uses air pressure) as humans can only hear from 20 - 20,000hz as babies. This rapidly decreases with age. As a side note, Headphones usually have worse response and you do not get to feel the non audible frequencies.

It is very unlikely the average music listener will have the equipment to listen/feel Binaural beats properly if what I am assuming makes binaural beats effective is correct. The only way I could see these beats working is if I have got the idea of frequency wrong and the binaural frequency refers to the the level of pulse between sounds which in the music industry should be referred to as LFO (Low frequency oscillation). Producers use frequency to measure oscillation as well as the pitch of a sound.

Don't get me wrong, I like binaural beats. I listen to them myself as i like a monogamous sound to take away any disturbing background sounds whilst meditating (whether they work or not  ) but I have expensive industry standard active monitors due to my work. I suggest anyone taking these beats seriously, to invest in some nice headphones that have a frequency range/response of 5hz - 20000hz +-2db (higher the db the worse).

Happy meditating and projecting!

Gnome 

[Gnome]

Thought I'd share what happened to me last night. My friend gave me a binaural beats recording a few days ago and last night I thought I'd try it out to see what would happen. Ive never had any OOBE AP before (don't think I did last night either) but here goes. All the following happend. My hands started tingling then I couldn't feel my arms. The back of my head felt heavy like as if I would not be able to lift even if I wanted to. My breathing was very shallow and heart beat very laboured and I had an 'ache' n the middle of my chest. My feet were doing what I would call an Irish jig!! Next my body felt like somebody was shaking it very quickly and I had a feeling of 'swirling'. Then as I concentrated on the blackness behind my eyes I felt myself moving rapidly down a black 'tunnel' but not a tunnel just the sensation of going faster and faster and faster. Then the recording stopped and so did all the feelings. I was so excited I txt my friend at 12.30am (GMT) to tell him. Cannot wait to try it again. Any comments welcomed but just thought Id tell my story

Take care x

I'm not exactly an expert at AP myself yet hehe... but I would say you may of been entering an AP. I have had several similar experiences (without beats). Just after what you described, I usually try to look at my hands in the 'black tunnel' and end up in the superman position. After about 2mins (or feels that long) I see brilliant purple gloopy/liquid like lines either side of me. When I see these lines all my fear/feeling of loosing grip or reality (lol) goes away and i get a big happy rush. unfortunately the happy feeling usually wakes me up because I become so overwhelmed. I also have all the usual vibration sensations etc. If it happens again try to look at your hands. Mine looked like they were laminated (shiny) haha. Good luck!

P.S to see a picture I created when i first experienced the crazy purple lines go to:

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_out_of_body_experiences/pictures_black_stars_purple_sludgy_stuff_flying_can_see_my_hands-t35862.0.html;msg296688#msg296688
     

[Rudolph]

It is very unlikely the average music listener will have the equipment to listen/feel Binaural beats properly if what I am assuming makes binaural beats effective is correct. The only way I could see these beats working is if I have got the idea of frequency wrong and the binaural frequency refers to the the level of pulse between sounds which in the music industry should be referred to as LFO (Low frequency oscillation). Producers use frequency to measure oscillation as well as the pitch of a sound.

Don't get me wrong, I like binaural beats. I listen to them myself as i like a monogamous sound to take away any disturbing background sounds whilst meditating (whether they work or not  ) but I have expensive industry standard active monitors due to my work. I suggest anyone taking these beats seriously, to invest in some nice headphones that have a frequency range/response of 5hz - 20000hz +-2db (higher the db the worse).

The question in my mind comes when people report 3.94hz beat frequency.
Really?
You have speakers and players that can resolve better than 0.01 hz?

That is pretty darn good equipment there. Since a typical carrier tone is about 200hz, I think 204hz in one ear will resolve fine for most equipment. Even with 0.1-0.5hz wobble and drift the listener is still going to move into deep theta.  I know the Monroe Institute CD's that I got definitely work in terms of getting a response in my brain since it is not all difficult to feel. (This is on a Walkman Cd player -- I have not verified on an ipod yet).
As long as the carrier frequency is not too low (anything over 50hz should be fine) most off the shelf listening equipment should do alright. Background noise will not interfere with the binaural effect but can be annoying in other ways.

[Gnome]

yeah I understand. It probably will work on ipods/phones too if the carrier is at 200hz. 

[bluelily]

@Gnome, that explanation went way over my head ( ) but the frequency given for binaural beats refers to the difference between what's in one ear and what's in the other. The actual frequencies used vary. Maybe you were talking about something else? (Can you tell I'm not very technologically inclined? lol) Anyway they seem to work well for some people. I definitely get some sort of effect even with my cheap (and kinda broken) ipod earphones... Although I can't say I'm a huge fan of binaural beats in general. Many of them give me a peculiar headache.

[ange.connell]

Hi

All I know is that listening the the binaural beats definately has some sort of reaction. I have no clue what Gnome is on about but that says more about me I guess. Ive now used them 3 times and have had a similar experience, not the exact same but something. Basically, if it works for you then it works. Different techniques work for different people. Only if its not working would you think of changing

[KarmicBeats]

Gnome,  I like your explanation of frequency response it is good for people to know what numbers to look for when they buy speakers and headphones.

I think you may be misunderstanding how binaural beats work.  It is two different sine waves at two different frequencies one in each ear.
For instance 100Hz in one ear, and 104Hz in the other.  The brain adds them together as though they had been added together in the air (in which case it is a monaural beat).  This causes a wow wow sound at the beat frequency.  The two base frequencies are at a level within the range of human hearing.

[KarmicBeats]

I found this over at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_%28acoustics%29

Tuning two tones to a unison will present a peculiar effect: when the two tones are close in pitch but not yet identical, the difference in frequency generates the beating. The volume varies like in a tremolo as the sounds alternately interfere constructively and destructively. When the two tones gradually approach unison, the beating slows down and disappears.

I think that clarifies quite well what a beat frequency is what is happening with monaural and binaural beats.  With binaural beats the interesting thing is that the waves are combined in the brain not the air and yet you get the same beating as though they had combined in air

[ajbbinauralbeats]

I recently created an Astral projection binaural beat that uses 5 different binaural frequencies to achieve entrainment.

Please check out the video and let me know of any experiences!

[Lionheart]

I recently created an Astral projection binaural beat that uses 5 different binaural frequencies to achieve entrainment.
Please check out the video and let me know of any experiences!

I personally didn't care for these because of the shift in the tones. I was enjoying the first tone and then it changed completely, the jump in frequency was a bit too drastic, that brought my focus back to my body. You have 5 different tonal changes here. I think you need to work a bit on blending them more, so the change isn't so noticeable.  

[ajbbinauralbeats]

I personally didn't care for these because of the shift in the tones. I was enjoying the first tone and then it changed completely, the jump in frequency was a bit too drastic, that brought my focus back to my body. You have 5 different tonal changes here. I think you need to work a bit on blending them more, so the change isn't so noticeable.  

I definitely understand what you mean! I will work to smooth out all future tonal changes. My history is with making drug replication binaurals which really don't have effect UNLESS you are aware of your body, so I see where my error is.

[Lionheart]

 Here is an excellent Binaural Beat You Tube video I found recently. It's called "Sound Healing". Tomorrow I shall write a brief visual walkthrough for it. I'm still working on which way to go with that right now. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wbC2n-9FKI

[Astralsuzy]

What helps me is a CD called Music for Deep Sleep.  You hear sounds of thunderstorms, rain and ocean waves.  There are no bird sounds.  I find bird sounds irritating.  It helps your mind to get relaxed, the right frame of mind to astral project.  It may not be your type of thing but it is great for me.

[Lionheart]

 I have been working on this simple walkthrough for awhile now. It flows greatly with this Binaural Beat tune here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wbC2n-9FKI
The music goes for just over 40 minutes, so you have enough time to start by doing some breathing for the first minute, then 5 minutes of progressive relaxation. That should get you nice and relaxed now. Then just passively notice the darkness in front of your eyes.
Now you are standing looking out at moving river. It's a gentle current, not rapids. Just watch the water for a minute. Notice the direction it is flowing, don't look at anything else, but the water right now. Imerse your vision in it. Now you reach to your left breast pocket with your right hand and you pull out a flower. This flower is in full bloom. Look at the flower for a minute, now you gently toss the flower in the air and watch in slow motion as it falls in the river. Watch as it slowly flows and flutters in the air as it descends. Watch the ripples as the flower hits the water.
Now I want you to become just a point of view and stay 1 foot behind the flower as it moves with the current down the river. What does it do, where does it go? Does it get beached? Does it keep flowing until it hits a waterfall? Where does it end up? Let the scene progress on it's own. Once you start noticing the flower from a simple point of view moving down the river I don't want you to change anything at all. This is where your journey begins.
If you lose sight of the flower, focus until you can bring that visual back. If you can lose yourself in the flowing flower visual, you are already in the NPR!
Good Luck and Safe Travels!  

[Astralsuzy]

Thank you Lionheart.  That sounds really good.