What are binaural beats? They're sounds you can listen to through headphones to alter your mood. I know people who have used them, for example, to fall asleep more easily or focus on homework.
The idea is that your ears are introduced to two pitches that are almost the same but are off by just enough that your brain makes up the difference somehow. Supposedly the difference is a vibration of low frequency that causes you to enter certain states of mind (thus you become more focused, or drowsy, or meditative, or whatever).
Two good programs for exploring this phenomenon are the "Brainwave Generator" and Gnaural. The Brainwave Generator is a little more user-friendly, but it's not really customizable unless you buy the program for 40 bucks.
My favorite program at the moment is Gnaural. You can change all the aspects of the sound and even program and track a session of over an hour. For example, if you wanted to start focused and drift into a meditative state, you could program it all in assuming you know what frequencies do what.
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