X-Message-Number: 19947 Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 17:35:08 -0700 From: James Swayze <> Subject: Brain wave music cures anxiety insomnia A Totally Weird Way to Cure Insomnia By Cathryn Conroy, Netscape News Editor Listen to your own brain music. You'll fall asleep fast. What IS brain music? Every human brain creates its own internal music, and when researchers from the University of Toronto recorded that music and then played it back for sleepless volunteers, their anxiety insomnia was cured. Almost all of them fell asleep more quickly and were able to sleep more soundly. Click to find out how many hours a night you should sleep in order to have the longest life span! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/wrap/linker.jsp?floc=ns-wnew&ref=http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/02/14/sleep.study/index.html ABC News reports that the audible printout of a human being's sleep-inducing brain waves is a very strange lullaby indeed. "It sounds odd," psychiatrist Leonid Kayumov admitted to ABC News. He is the director of the Toronto sleep clinic that conducted the research. "You wouldn't recognize it as music. Sometimes there are harmonic frequencies, sometimes it's total cacophony." One interesting note Brain waves are FAST! They produce about 70 fluctuations per second. At times brain music can sound like Chinese, while at other times there is even a melody--of sorts. The point is that each of us has our own distinct brain music. "I find some people have nicer music," he says. Of course, only a sleep clinic with the right type of equipment can record your brain music and produce an audio track for you. But you have to listen to your OWN brain music. When volunteers were given someone else's brain music, only 15 percent found it cured their insomnia, compared with the 85 percent who listened to their own brain music and fell fast asleep. Nighty-night. --------- Now to find a lab and get recorded! However, I wish there was more information. Such as could it cause a feedback loop and could that be dangerous? Does it cure insomnia completely and not need to listen further or must one listen everytime to get to sleep? I have always suffered insomnia even when a child. I have always used music to help me sleep, especially recently the new forms of electronic ambient music. On another note, the above exclamation that the brain's transitions are fast, to me, seems a good case for future augmentation. Only 70 per second? That's slooooow! James -- MY WEBSITE: http://www.geocities.com/~davidpascal/swayze/ A COLLECTION of photos of me and some of my artwork: http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4292752723&code=2039335&mode=invite A RADIO INTERVIEW on Dr. J's ChangeSurfer Radio program with me and the father of cryonics Prof. Robert Ettinger, author of "The Prospect of Immortality": http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=3728 A RELIGION I actually recommend: http://uk.geocities.com/venturist2001/index.html A FAVORITE quote: Last lines of the first Star Trek the Next Generation movie. Capt. Picard: "What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived, after all Number One, we're only mortal." Will Ryker: "Speak for yourself captain, I intend to live forever!" Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19947