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brain entrainment

Binaural Beats for Lucid Dreaming: is it just Pseudoscience?

By Ryan Hurd

Many people use audio tracks to induce binaural beats in the brain. This effect is called brain entrainment, and there’s some pretty solid research behind it. Unfortunately, the research behind using binaural beats to increase lucid dreaming is not … [Read more...] about Binaural Beats for Lucid Dreaming: is it just Pseudoscience?

Filed Under: Lucid Dreaming, Technology Tagged With: binaural beats, brain entrainment, brainwave entrainment, GAMMA waves, Lucid Dreaming, meditation, theta waves

Lucid Dreaming: a Hybrid of REM and Waking Cognition

By Ryan Hurd

A study accepted in the journal Sleep last month (but not yet published) claims that lucid dreaming should be not be considered a REM dreaming phenomenon but rather a unique state of consciousness (Voss, et al., 2009). Poetically, the assertion that … [Read more...] about Lucid Dreaming: a Hybrid of REM and Waking Cognition

Filed Under: New Dream Studies Tagged With: 40hz entrainment, Allan Hobson, altered states, brain entrainment, cognitive neurophilosophy, EEG, gamma range, Harry Hunt, Lucid Dreaming, lucid dreaming tools, Michael Winkelman, transpersonal psychology, Ursula Voss

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