My Personal Experience with Entrainment

Like most things that strike my fancy, I rush to it, go crazy over it, and then when the initial excitement fades away, I leave it and search for the next interesting thing. My personal experience with brainwave entrainment is no exception to this ‘fancy’ rule. However, this technology has become some sort of mild obsession of mine as I often go back to it every now and then and embrace it like some dear friend whenever we come together.

A few years back, I stumbled upon a site called the Brainwave Generator. I do meditation exercises on and off, so when I read that brainwave entrainment enhances and kind of makes one’s meditation experience easier, I immediately plunged into it and studied it thoroughly. The bwgen site introduced me to all this. I did a lot of personal experimentation and created lots of bwgen presets for my own use. I even submitted a couple of presets to the bwgen site library. The ‘Deep Bubble’ and the ‘Deep Bubble 1‘ presets. It garnered a few appreciative comments from some experienced users of brainwave entrainment. There was even one professional therapist who emailed me about how he liked my preset and how he used it on his clients, and how each client related their personal experience with entrainment using the file I made. He also asked me to create more presets.

As I did not fully trust the works of other contributors, I only used presets and sound files I created myself. With the ones I made, I usually feel first the initial physical relaxation. At about the 6th minute, i get the swaying sensations, like I’m on a hammock and being gently swayed to and fro. At other times, I feel like I can initiate the swaying myself just by imagining it. Then it comes. After the swaying comes the flutter of images. The same ones I always see when I’m lying in bed and about to enter the sleep phase. I think this is what they call the hypnagogic phase. Then finally I either fall into some very calm, silent, peaceful state, regardless of the sounds and activity outside, or fall peacefully asleep. Ok, it helps if it’s silent or hushed outside.

I did all this with the goal of achieving what they term ‘astral projection’. Sadly, I have never achieved such, at least not consciously. One other very definite observation I’ve noticed about this exercise is that, if I do brainwave entrainment sessions early or at anytime in the evening, I afterwards feel like I’ve taken a considerable dose of caffeine as I can not sleep at my usual sleeping schedule for that night. That’s why nowadays, I make sure I do it either in the mornings, noontime or early afternoon.

Lastly, I’d like to stress the quality of my sleep in the evenings when I do the session during the day. Peaceful, restful. And my dreams are clearer and more easily recalled. There are probably a lot of things that happened to me with the sessions. Most of them probably are too subtle for me to take notice. I often envy others who report about really cool experiences. Probably, if I can effectively suspend the constant rationalization of my objective mind during the sessions, I’d have better luck.

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