Last time something similar to this was posted, somebody recommended [0] "The Sound Machine" [1], a short story by Road Dahl. If you have thirty minutes to spare, you won't regret reading it.
Later in the piece, they discuss how we can use music to aid Alzheimer's, but I consider this to be along the similar lines of the original use of eyeglasses.
But we need to break past the idea that sound therapy is something we consciously hear, and that we are responding to the musical attributes of sound.
My company is called SoundMind (soundmind.co), and we use auditory stimulation to increase the efficiency of deep sleep.
I'm often asked "what does it sound like?", and I've come to like the saying "when a doctor gives you a pill, do you ask what it tastes like?"
When we get an "ultrasound", we know we can't hear the frequency, so we don't think about the actual sound, but for treatments where active sound is involved, we assume it's the sound itself that is doing the work, as if in taking a pill, it is the pill that heals you, rather than the pill triggering a response, which triggers 10 other responses, on and on.
An aspirin does not reduce inflammation, it inhibits an enzyme which produces a hormone like messenger molecule, which ....
The way we use sound to improve sleep (as much as scientists currently understand) is that during deep sleep the neurons in your brain fire synchronously, if we interrupt the brain 30 degrees from the peak of this synchronous firing, your brain responds by increasing the synchronous firing of neurons, to protect that function of sleep.
So in our example, like the aspirin, yes sound is the delivery mechanism. It will be fascinating to see other methods we can use sound to interact with our biology/physiology.
I’m a psychoacoustician and I’ve studied auditory perception my whole career. The statement “we use auditory stimulation to increase the efficiency of deep sleep” sounds like snake oil. I’m not saying such a thing is impossible, it just sounds very implausible (to me, ostensibly an expert in this area) However, I’m open minded: can you present some evidence that your techniques actually improve sleep?
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[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1949/09/17/the-sound-mach...
Later in the piece, they discuss how we can use music to aid Alzheimer's, but I consider this to be along the similar lines of the original use of eyeglasses.
But we need to break past the idea that sound therapy is something we consciously hear, and that we are responding to the musical attributes of sound.
My company is called SoundMind (soundmind.co), and we use auditory stimulation to increase the efficiency of deep sleep.
I'm often asked "what does it sound like?", and I've come to like the saying "when a doctor gives you a pill, do you ask what it tastes like?"
When we get an "ultrasound", we know we can't hear the frequency, so we don't think about the actual sound, but for treatments where active sound is involved, we assume it's the sound itself that is doing the work, as if in taking a pill, it is the pill that heals you, rather than the pill triggering a response, which triggers 10 other responses, on and on.
An aspirin does not reduce inflammation, it inhibits an enzyme which produces a hormone like messenger molecule, which ....
The way we use sound to improve sleep (as much as scientists currently understand) is that during deep sleep the neurons in your brain fire synchronously, if we interrupt the brain 30 degrees from the peak of this synchronous firing, your brain responds by increasing the synchronous firing of neurons, to protect that function of sleep.
So in our example, like the aspirin, yes sound is the delivery mechanism. It will be fascinating to see other methods we can use sound to interact with our biology/physiology.
I'm surprised you haven't heard of it as an expert in the area. This is only a small sampling of the research.
If you look for Closed-Loop Auditory Stimulation of slow wave sleep you will find much more.
The sleep market is full of snake oil, it's a big issue, and something we are keen to combat, so perhaps better terminology on my part would help.
Thanks for responding and not just writing us off.