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My Hemi Sync Review: Binaural Beats, Meditation and Lucid Dreams

Hemi Sync is world famous for its binaural beats meditation CDs. It was created by the legendary out of body explorer and lucid dreamer, Dr Robert Monroe, and his team at The Monroe Institute. The technology is scientifically-based and clinically proven.

This is my Hemi Sync review, based on my personal experiences of the MetaMusic range of meditation CDs. I use them to induce regular meditation which I feel has played a key role in my lucid dreaming success. MetaMusic is also worth exploring for stress relief, deep meditation, out of body phenomena, relaxation and musical enjoyment.

MetaMusic Meditation CDs

While Hemi Sync has many different binaural beats CDs, the best ones for meditation and lucid dreaming fall under the MetaMusic range.

The brainwave entrainment means it takes only 2-3 minutes to enter a trance state. This is where you beging to lose all sensation of your body and focus your conscioussness within. Once immersed in this state, your inner voice goes quiet and you can observe a peaceful train of thoughts that arise directly from the subconscious. It can be very insightful and is excellent training for lucidity.

My favorite MetaMusic CDs are:

Inner Journey - featuring ethereal sounds which create a deeply relaxing melody to relieve stress, free your imagination and expand awareness. Inner Journey has a real cosmic feel to it - like you're traveling through the universe and into other dimensions.

Between Worlds - featuring sounds of the rainforest which guide you to the perfect visualization spot. The musical sound effects include the didgeridoo, flutes, mbira and indigenous chants. It is very other-wordly.

Gaia - a flute and guitar blend overlaying sounds of water. The Gaia CD stimulates imagination and creativity and has given me some very cool visualizations.

At the time of writing, these CDs are on special retailing at $17.95. Be sure to preview each one online before you buy, as I find certain CDs appeal to me way more than others. This definitely comes down to personal taste but they do cater a wide range.

The Lucid Dreaming DVD

The Monroe Institute also has a DVD series dedicated to teaching lucid dreaming and providing binaural beats recordings to stimulate conscious dreams.

The Lucid Dreaming DVD features four exercises to program your subconscious for lucid dreams and help you consciously participate in your own dreamscape. Like many brainwave entrainment products for lucidity, it facilitates the brainwave states found in natural REM sleep cycles and gives you cues to become aware.

Final Thoughts

Meditation is a powerful thing - and anyone can benefit from a simple relaxation session just once a day. It's even beneficial to meditate when you go to sleep; you'll spend less time tossing and turning, and more time interacting with your hypnagogic imagery which can lead directly to lucid dreams almost by accident.

Hemi Sync accelerates the process of becoming sufficiently relaxed so you can reach those blissful states of meditation. So if you have difficulty focusing your mind or keeping away the incessant mind chatter, meditation CDs are the way to go. Once you learn to enjoy undisturbed meditation, you can then explore fascinating visualizations and even induce out of body experiences and lucid dreams from this boderland state.