by busboy » March 11th, 2008, 1:56 am
@FriendlyGuy;
you may like the questions, but I love your answers!!!
Thanks for the opinion. When dealing with binaurals, I personally don't think there's such a thing as an opinion "against the grain", as there seems to be so little definitive material on the binaural beats. Heck, I can't even find an accepted frequency range! Some scientists but Delta at 0.1-3, some at 0.1-2, some put Theta at 3-5, some at 3-7, some at 2-5, etc. All the literature seems to agree on the effectiveness of the different ranges, but not quite what those ranges are or other minutia such as best volume, tone, proper mixing, etc.
I like your suggestion to mix a low Delta with a louder Theta . . . I like it very very much. My mixing skills are developing (god bless Audacity!!!), but I haven't yet gotten to the point of overlapping binaural beats, mostly out of a fear I would just end up with noise. If all that's required is to set two seperate tracks, set their respective volumes, then mix into one track then I'll have no problem. If the process starts getting into "phase" settings and other fancy buttons I haven't figured out yet, then I had better avoid it until I'm more solid . . . still burning after my earlier fiasco with binaurals.
btw, as an update on my month-long project to finally hit sonambulistic state . . . 99.9% failure. I can get to that edge, but (as I mentioned in my No2 thread) my critical faculty refuses to play nice and quit adrenaling me awake (stupid brain). I've got a few options I'm pursuing . . . in addition to trying to hit deep trance with the aid of the No2, I'm planning on trying to hit there in the next few days with the aid of the only person who got me to deep trance (once) by using a hypnosleep induction. Again, I believe that if a re-trance trigger can be planted in the sonambulistic state, I'll be able to get back to it even if I just use the trigger near the end of my usual Induction/Deepener routine. This last part (using deep planted trigger to bypass hypersensitive critical faculty) is just a hypotheses on my part, so I'm also going to try to plant some "okay if you allow yourself to drop into deep trance" commands to de-activate the CF. Before this was all an experiment, but the "need" to accomplish this is growing more serious. My girlfriend (that sounds so juvenile, but I guess it's the appropriate term) is also into hypnosis, and has no trouble going deep with me acting as tist (at least confirming my files are competent). We'd like to start using hypnosis in more erotic ways, but frankly I'm not comortable with the one-sided power exchange. I'm cetainly not opposed to "toying" with her, but with her unable to do the same to me the hypno play drifts too dangerously into a permanent Master/Slave relationship, and that neither of us are looking for (few hours, absolutely, but done at the end of the night). It's gotten to the popint I'm afraid to do any trancework whatsoever with her, because quite frankly the temptation to give triggers/suggestions is hard to resist, and the constant emphasis of "trust/like/obey/follow my voice" and other such language would no doubt slowly affect the relationship.