Binaural Beats for sleep
By · CommentsA couple of years ago, I had trouble to find sleep and I experimented with various products to help me to find sleep. In this post I share my personal opinion about the products I tried, keep in my mind that someone else can have a completely different experience of what I had with the same products.
The year of testing was 2003 for most of the products.
Natural Sleep Inducement
Most of the reviewers at Amazon.com gave this CD a positive review, it was one of the first I tried for the purpose of putting myself into a restful sleep. Sadly for me, It didn’t work well, may be, it was the headphone that I wasn’t used to wear at the time, I don’t know. I tried that CD a couple of times and then I gave up on it to never return. Listening to crashing waves on rocks may not be for everyone.
Delta Sleep System by Dr. Jeffrey Thompson
The music is quiet and calming however it is not a music style that I would like to listen at night. My automatic response to this CD was to wait until the end so I could get some sleep .Because, I could not use this for sleep, I used it for meditation instead.
Sleep Deep Hypnosis by Wendi.com
This one worked for me beautifully, it is a nice music combined with a hypnosis script that lead you gently into sleep. What I liked the most about the CD was the rich visualization involved and because of this exercise of visualizing scenaries I had vivid dreams. It was a very good CD for me.
Brainsync Ecstasy
Most of the Brainsync CDs I have, do not put me into sleep but strangely enough this Ecstasy CD was a title that I could use to get a restful night of sleep, I usually fell asleep before the end of the CD. Composed by Robert Schwimmer this is one of the best brain sync CD in my collection, I also used this CD to play with Kundalini 
meditation.
Beautiful relaxing music by Paul Collier
By · CommentsThis new music by Paul Collier is really good for relaxation, meditation, breathing exercises, tai chi or a work session on the computer … ;:)
I hope you love it.
The more a person smokes, the lower their IQ ?
By · CommentsAnother funny study.
(Reuters) Dr. Mark Weiser and colleagues from Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer found that young men who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day or more had IQ scores 7.5 points lower than non-smokers.
“Adolescents with poorer IQ scores might be targeted for programs designed to prevent smoking,” they conclude in the journal Addiction.
While there is evidence for a link between smoking and lower IQ, many studies have relied on intelligence tests given in childhood, and have also included people with mental and behavioral problems, who are both more likely to smoke and more likely to have low IQs, Weiser and his team noted.
Nap for boosting brain learning power , really ?
By · CommentsAccording to a BBC story Volunteers who slept for 90 minutes during the day did better at cognitive tests than those who were kept awake. The results were presented at a conference in California. A UK-based expert said it was hard to separate the pure “memory boosting” effects of sleep from those of simply being less tired.
he wealth of study into the science of sleep in recent years has so far failed to come up with conclusive evidence as to the value of a quick “siesta” during the day. The latest study, from the University of California at Berkeley, suggests that the brain may need sleep to process short-term memories, creating “space” for new facts to be learned.
In their experiment, 39 healthy adults were given a hard learning task in the morning – with broadly similar results, before half of them were sent for their siesta. When the tests were repeated, the nappers outperformed those who had carried on without sleep.
Checks on brain electrical activity suggested that this process might be happening in a sleep phase between deep sleep, and dreaming sleep, called stage 2 non-rapid eye movement sleep, when fact-based memories are moved from “temporary storage” in the brain’s hippocampus to another area called the pre-frontal cortex.
Brain ‘inbox’
Dr Matthew Walker, who led the study, reported at the AAAS conference in San Diego, said: “Sleep not only rights the wrong of prolonged wakefulness, but, at a neurocognitive level, it moves you beyond where you were before you took a nap.
Wendi Friesen at Wendi.com has a CD called Power Nap, it has 3 tracks using hypnosis and binaural beats to create power nap that leave you refreshed after. You can learn more on her site.
They are a lot of funny researches out there. I like this one about how brain scan reveals how people rate attractiveness and decide its value.
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 17 (HealthDay News) — New brain-scan research is providing insight into how you decide what things are worth.
Researchers at Duke University Medical Center found that specific areas of the brain were activated in male college students as they evaluated female faces. The findings, they report, suggest that the brains were doing two things: figuring out the quality of the experience of viewing the faces and determining what they would trade to see a particular face again. Read More→
