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yes it is this binaural beats malarky, its pretty cool albeit a bit weird! I've heard stuff about this in the past but never experiance it properly, and yes the stoned feeling was with the rocking etc
How do u get to these states without the sounds, after a while it gives me a headache
Yup. Definitely get a headache if the volume is too high, and (for me at least) the high beta tracks give me a headache no matter whether I have the volume right or not....
The experience, my friend, is bound to be a little weird - you are strolling wide awake through the deaper recesses of your subconscious, fully aware of your waking thought process, and experiencing the complete disintigration of logic, causality, action before reaction, etc.... You have left normal consciousness behind.
Alpha is nice, but not altogether psychedelic or anything... 20 minutes of alpha will perk you up like the perfect nap.
Theta, on the other hand, is that bizarre fleeting state just before you fall asleep, where huge ideas drift past like balloons, just out of your reach yet somehow almost understandable... That state where the mind is loose, fluid, and unchecked by earthly rules... We don't know it, but probably many of the times we are drifting like that, our astral body is oot and aboot, hopefully up to more good than harm. Rules break down at this point. The human brain is still the most powerful computer in the known universe, and we still don't know exactly how to drive the mother...
And neither are we familiar with all the tricks it may perform - we all have a hugely powerful quantum computer on board, and if you believe lunatics like me, non-local interaction with distant places is not only possible, but downright likely.
For a serious experience: Ride a theta track all the way down - NOTHING IN THIS WORLD like entering REM while still conscious... At first, it jolted me and I couldn't break through, but after getting over it, I found myself literally dreaming while awake - I one time found myself on the bottom of the sea, exploring wreckage of what appeared to be a sunken ship. And fully aware the whole time - a lucid dream - I was me and could move about at will, effortlessly...
OK, but on the subject of getting to a point where the beats are no longer required - no big deal there - a lot of folks meditate without electronic intervention. Yes, it is literally a matter of doing it enough times to get familiar with the feeling, and then just take yourself there at will. Happened to me accidentally - I would have been happy enough to play a meditation CD every day forever, but eventually I found that whenever I went to relax, I began to naturally descend through the tiers of my mind, and now recognize my natural alpha state by the colored rings that converge from the edge of my vision and disappear forward...
Silicon valley's got nothin on the human brain.
Immensely powerful tool. Unleash it.