I was on tour with global superstars, living an amazing life, enjoying making my passion my career. My career meant I worked with some of the world’s biggest names, like Stormzy, Zayn Malik, Tinie Tempah, Giggs, Emile Sande and Wizkid. Have you heard about binaural beats before? Let us know in the comments below Comment Now The atmospheric, tone-based sound of binaural beats, usually generated using keyboards or computers, can remind some people of ambient house or ‘chillout’ dance music, but is more sparse, and less structured, with the focus on generating two complementary but subtly different tones in each ear. There haven’t been wide-scale studies on binaural beats, but the basic theory suggests that different types of brain waves respond to different frequencies, and the auditory illusion created by binaural beats is designed to take the listener from Alpha Waves (which are associated with restful alertness as in meditation) to Theta or Delta waves (which are common in lighter sleep and deep sleep respectively).Įven then, I was sceptical about whether this video I had stumbled across had truly caused me to have a blissful sleep – I assumed it was maybe just because I was sober, or that I was in such a panic-induced state of insomnia that my body had simply run out of energy and shut down to recharge.īut no, I went back the next day, and the day after, and the day after, and now every night I’ll stick on a binaural beats video, whether I’m at home chilling on my own or have just come off stage at Madison Square Garden.īinaural beats sound more like music than the droning repetitive sounds of white noise, or the tapping and whispering that accompanies ASMR, two other techniques I know people use to relax. That median frequency therefore becomes a form of auditory illusion, and millions of people listen to binaural beats or watch videos soundtracked by them every day to help with stress, anxiety, or insomnia. Because amid the hypnosis, the ASMR, and the white noise videos, I found binaural beats – and despite everything that was going on in my mind and body on that day, I enjoyed the best sleep I’d had in years.īinaural beats are a type of music that involves two tones of slightly varying frequencies being played to the listener, one in each ear, with your brain slowly adjusting and responding to a median frequency that falls in between the two that are being played.
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