Ask HN: Do you code to binaural beats?

10 points by gaalze 11 years ago | 7 comments

Are they bullshit or what? I have been looking for scholarly papers and anything repeatable. If I can trigger the placebo effect it looks like I should be buying some crystals to go with my monitor.

majora2007 11 years ago |

http://www.transparentcorp.com/research/

Lots of peer-reviewed literature here. They are definelty not placebo, I have personally seen their effect through EEG.

Cybernetic 11 years ago | |

Do you have experience with specific recordings that aren't placebo? Can you please share links to those? I would be interested in listening to them, thanks!

gaalze 11 years ago | |

Could you recommend a pdf or mp3 specifically? I'm really looking for an mp3 to put on repeat.

orik 11 years ago | | |

Different offset frequencies have different effects so you should do more research and maybe experiment with some different beats before you just put one on repeat.

Some beats made me sleepy others made me agitated. You're probably looking for something to make you focused.

mcpoyles 11 years ago | | |

Just go to Youtube and search Binaural beats you will have all you need.

api 11 years ago |

I've used them. The effect is slight but seems to be there. At the very least it's a nice soothing background sound.

There's a nice app for iOS called Binaural, and an open source program called sbagen.