Do light & sound machines work?

[gusl]

Here's a call to those of you with a talent for separating truth from bullshit:

Do light & sound machines work?

here's an article on Binaural beats


A plug for the OpenEEG Project seems appropriate.

Comments

[bondage-and-tea.livejournal.com]

The binaural beats link doesn't work.

CoolEdit lets you play with this stuff, I think. When I was younger, I tried it. Lots of strange things happened. I played pink noise, panning from left to right, in order to try to change my EEG. The strange effect I got was that I heard the sound of a whale (or something) coming from inside my head! Even though such a sound was not in the noise I was listening to. Not sure if it actually did anything to my brainwaves, though!

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

Not sure if it actually did anything to my brainwaves, though!
that seems like the only explanation for hearing sounds that aren't there...

[bondage-and-tea.livejournal.com]

Well, indeed.

I haven't been able to repeat the effect, alas. I lost the sound file. I think I did something quite weird by accident, combining two frequencies of panning simultaneously or something. Other than that, I just followed instructions on the CoolEdit help page.