Some binaural beat users have also compared the experience to microdosing on shrooms—albeit, it's not a talk-to-Smurfs-in-the-woods kind of shroom high. It's more of a controlled and inventive one that can allow you to access creative head spaces.
on shrooms—albeit, it's not a talk-to-Smurfs-in-the-woods kind of shroom high. Rather, it’s a controlled and inventive one that can allow you to access creative head spaces you’re not easily privy to in everyday life.by Australia's RMIT University found that 12 percent of survey-respondents use binaural beats like they would use psychedelic drugs , 35 percent to change their mood, and 72 percent to relax or fall asleep.
, a sociologist of technology at Deakin University in Australia and one of the lead authors of this paper, told The Daily Beast. “What we do know is that people are using it to alter their states and to connect with themselves, and also to connect, with a higher force or like into that more spiritual space. So it's quite interesting.”
Her study, which drew on answers from more than 30,000 people in 22 different countries, was published last month in. However, the scientific jury is still out on whether binaural beats can actually get you high like psychedelics, or whether it’s just a matter of placebo. Despite this, scholars believe this phenomenon has the ability to radically change our understanding of what drugs even are.
When you’re hearing sounds in the real world, one ear always processes it before the other one. Your brain is trained to understand sound that way, and figure out where it comes from. “Binaural beats disrupt our brain’s efforts to localize sound,”, a lecturer in contemporary music at University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia and one of the audio expert advisors on the recently published paper, told The Daily Beast.
Playing two different but very similar frequencies, no greater than 30Hz difference, exclusively to each ear creates a specific modulation. The sound slowly cycles between being out of phase—when two different tones are on different parts of their wave causing it to sound really wide and almost disappear—to being completely in phase and merging to sound louder, Goold explains. This causes a “third tone” inside your brain, which only you can hear.