Does anyone else find binaural beats actually freaking psychoactive? (lemmy.world)

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I swear, there's a delta wave 2HZ,3HZ one thats basically aural Valium 💉 As long as its a good speaker

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[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 4 points 12 hours ago

Studies are currently inconclusive on the efficacy of Binaural Beats. According to this meta analysis, five corroborate BB, and eight do not.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0286023

So it's still woo until studies consistently fail to disprove that BB does anything.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Anecdotally, I believe they can induce relaxation or stimulation via entrainment. Like if you listen to something low and soft, I think that relaxes you and something high-pitched and loud stimulates

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 3 points 9 hours ago

Right, but that's exactly it. It's still only just anecdotes and subjective claims. It might be that it's indeed a valid form of treatment, but the evidence we have doesn't seem to point to that as a rational conclusion.

Whatever you personally experience might in fact be a placebo effect or confirmation bias.

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