If anything, it’s gently sedating me, chilling me out for a lazy stint on my couch back home. Consistent and high-pitched, it does a good job in blocking out external stimuli, but this doesn’t exactly mean it’s honing my focus. Maybe a ceiling fan on attempting to go 60 miles an hour better describes it. The resulting tone sounds noisier than an idling Ford Focus engine. In a corner chair with a tall cup of tea, I don my enormous, world-cancelling headphones and press play. I should note that this is the kind of coffee shop that can only hurt my productivity, full of loud clanging and chirpy music and girls so cute they can’t be ignored. It sounds like auditory snake oil to me, and after seeing websites (like here and here) selling listening sessions at prices as high as $18, my skepticism’s only further compounded.īut a friend of mine lends me her iPod with a recording containing binaural beats specifically designed for those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (although she draws a blank on where, exactly, she purchased it), and I take it to a local coffee shop to give it a try. Advocates insist they can reduce anxiety, enhance concentration, and even eliminate pain. Binaural beats are essentially two tones of different frequencies that, when listened to simultaneously, sound like a single tone and are alleged to have substantial neurological benefits.
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