Insomnia

[skorpionuk]

L'amour n'est pas consolation, il est lumière.
Love is not consolation, it is light.
Simone Weil, Cahier VI (K6), as quoted in House of Leaves, p.655.I've had insomnia for a long time; people first commented on it when I was 16, at which point I tended to have one night a month of simply staying awake. Since then, the bouts have become more

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[denari]

Have I talked to you about Binaural beats before? Whenever I really can't sleep, I use my brainwave machine to put me into delta sleep. Sleep 4 hours, feels like 9.

http://uazu.net/sbagen/

Download tool and use some of the samples. Must be used with headphones

[shermarama]

Cor. What do these sound like, as in are they low or high-pitched sine waves? I strongly suspect that hearing beat frequencies would just make me go 'all right, who's out of tune?' as it usually does in band situations...

[denari]

doesn't actually matter what frequency they are at as long as they are a certain frequency different to each other. You hear one note in one ear, on in the other and a third appears in your brain.

[shermarama]

Yes, I'm familiar with beat frequencies but I was wondering about the practical side - for example what sort of frequencies do you use yourself?

[denari]

I actually use a brainwave machine that has 60 set programs. Have little idea which ones use which frequnecies am afraid. I mainly go to delta and theta waves for meditation and sleep though.