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I asked her, “How did you sit down for four hours straight and finish that PowerPoint deck?” Her answer was weird: “Binaural Beats.” “What The F is that,” I said. For the next few years I ignored her advice and went back to trying to be creative in complete silence without distractions. It was torture. Achieving perfect silence is near impossible.
Sitting down and writing is hard for me. If I lose my attention then I find it difficult to get it back again.
Once I find a flow state, I want to stay there for the rest of the day while I write. Before discovering binaural beats, this was incredibly difficult.
Binaural Beats is essentially music that repeats over and over. There is no actual beat, but instead a tone that is created in your brain as a result of two different frequencies being played at the same time.
When I studied sound engineering, we were taught about Shepard tones. These are sounds that appear to endlessly rise and fall in pitch without your brain necessarily realizing it. These tones are similar to what you hear in Binaural Beats. What’s the point of all of this?