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Binaural Beats MP3s
for Lucid Dreaming

Binaural beats MP3s for lucid dreaming can dramatically improve your meditation skills and ability to become consciously aware in the dream world. This is one of my favorite lucid dream aids because it entrains your mind for lucidity in all the right ways.

This article explains how brainwave entrainment works and provides links to my favorite isochronic tones and binaural beats MP3s. Just listening to this hypnotic sound puts you in an altered state of consciousness in minutes, no matter how practiced you are at meditation. It's a great tool for lucid dreamers.

How do Binaural Beats Work?

Binaural beats technology is clinically proven to stimulate a "frequency following response" - in which your brain naturally adjusts its internal frequency to the finely-tuned entrainment sounds.

The human brain goes through many frequency cycles every day, each having a different effect on your level of consciousness. Meditation CDs that use binaural beats allow you to enter altered states on demand by gently guiding your internal brainwave frequencies to the desired state.

For instance, the theta frequency occurs during states of still alertness, and in dreaming. It is marked by 3-6 cycles (Hz) per second. But the human ear doesn't react to frequencies below 20 Hz - so how can we induce the theta frequency?

Binaural beats work by playing two separate frequencies into each ear (eg, 130Hz in the left ear, and 136Hz in the right). Your brain reacts by compensating for the difference, creating an internal frequency of 6 Hz. This entrains a theta operating state internally, no matter whether you are awake or asleep.

How do Binaural Beats Affect the Body?

This "tuning process" has an amazing effect on the mind and body - and has been scientifically proven in numerous studies. Within minutes of listening to binaural beats for the first time, you can expect:

• Your body to feel heavy and deeply relaxed
• Vivid visualizations, colors and patterns
• Separation of the conscious and subconscious mind
• Total relief from anxiety and stress
• A feeling of sedation or total weightlessness

Brainwave entrainment is completely safe, since we touch upon these frequencies every day as we fall asleep, day dream - even become mesmerized by the TV. (However, because of the deeply relaxing effect of these deep meditation CDs, you must never listen to them while driving or operating any machinery.)

I own numerous lucid dreaming and meditation MP3s and find they differ mostly in the sounds they put in the foreground to disguise the white noise. They can use sound effects and even music while your brain is entrained to the white noise frequencies.

Below are my top three favorite brainwave entrainment recordings for lucid dreaming. You can listen to free samples on their websites to get a taste for what it's like.

Unexplainable Store

Unexplainable Store has a powerful Lucid Dreaming MP3 which is, to date, my favorite recording for brainwave entrainment. It can be used as part of a relaxing meditation alongside the MILD and WILD techniques for lucid dreaming. According to the creator, Jim McElwee, this recording puts you in an altered state of awareness within 8 minutes, enhancing your ability to focus inwards and lucid dream.

Hemi Sync

In my Hemi Sync Review I pick out my top three MetaMusic CDs, created by The Monroe Institute. This is a huge collection of meditation tracks using brainwave entrainment, music and hypnosis to guide you into deeply relaxed states of awareness. I have been using Hemi Sync for eight years to achieve relaxation and meditation which has doubtlessly improved my ability to have lucid dreams and out of body phenomena.

Brain Sync

My Brain Sync Review discusses the medical benefits of meditation and how this brand of brainwave entrainment is recommended by doctors around the world. Clinically proven and based on biofeedback research, Brain Sync meditation CDs improve the quality of your thoughts and feelings which impact your everyday life. This unleashes your ability to learn, create and heal. Another wonderful relaxation aid.