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I had the same experience when I first started sleep tracking before beginning our start-up https://affectablesleep.com.

My oura would tell me I didn't get enough deep sleep, or REM sleep, and I was like - so what? What do I do with that information?

We're using auditory stimulation to increase the efficiency of deep sleep during the night. The data after a night of sleep is less valuable than the real-time intervention.



what do you think of binaural beats (cool edit pro did them the best, you could even use arbitrary audio) for helping with sleep?

I know it's probably a big ask to wear headphones prior to sleep but when i was younger i used binaural beats for a few years to try hacking my brain a bit. When it "clicks" the sensation is pretty noticeable and intense. I described the default "noise" binaural beats "activating" like the sound of a helicopter circling around you, but quietly and quickly.


The only research I've seen says that binaural are no more effective then monarual across the population.

But also, our stimulation isn't music, it's sound. It is 50ms timed near the peak of a slow-wave, so completely different mechanisms.

When people ask what it sounds like, my response is "if I gave you a pill, you wouldn't ask what it tastes like".

So I'm not the person to ask about binaural beats.




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