by sleepyjosh » October 15th, 2010, 5:29 pm
I haven't read the Wikipedia article myself, but I'm surprised they don't mention binaural use to enhance hypnosis at least in passing. Oh well.
It's actually a really, really kewl thing if you think about it. Try listening to a binaural, all by itself sometime. One with no music, no speaking... just a straight binaural. You MUST listen with headphones. Now pay attention, and you will eventually hear the pulsing of the binaural beat.
Now here comes the kewl part. That pulsing doesn't "really" exist. It's all an illusion, created inside your brain, based on a slight difference in the pitch of the tone coming in one ear versus the tone in the other ear.
Even if binaurals do nothing else to enhance your hypnotic experiences, just listening to one and grasping the fact that what you are hearing is completely produced inside your head, ought to grant you a revelation. If your brain is capable of being fooled into hearing a beat where none exists, through listening to simple tones, in what other ways might your mind be manipulated by a skilled hypnotist?