Method of inducing mental, emotional and physical states of consciousness, including specific mental activity, in human beings

• US 5,213,562 A
• Filed: 04/25/1990
• Issued: 05/25/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Interstate Industries Incorporated (Hemi-Sync)
• Original Assignee: Interstate Industries Incorporated (Hemi-Sync)
• Inventors: Monroe, Robert A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cohen, Lee S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lacyk, John P.
• Application Number:
  US07/514,460
• Time in Patent Office: 1,126 Days
• Field of Search: 600/26-28, 128/731-732, 128/905
• US Class Current: 600/28
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/375 using biofeedback
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/0027 by the hearing sense
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/0033 subsonic
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/04 with audible presentation of the material to be studied sound recording or reproducing G11B

Abstract

A method having applicability in replication of desired consciousness states; in the training of an individual to replicate such a state of consciousness without further audio stimulation; and in the transferring of such states from one human being to another through the imposition of one individual'"'"'s EEG, superimposed on desired stereo signals, on another individual, by inducement of a binaural beat phenomenon.

Claims

1. A method of inducing states of consciousness in human beings, comprising:

providing a replicated electroencephalogram (EEG) waveform indicative of a desired state of consciousness;

superimposing said EEG waveform on two separate sets of carrier waves using stereo sound;

creating differential beat frequencies between said sets of carrier waves in accordance with said superimposing step; and

providing the resulting signals in audio form to respective ears of a human being, to induce said state of consciousness.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said creating step includes the step of combining pink with said sets of carrier waves by shifting of said pink sound with respect to said EEG waveform from one stereo audio channel to another, with cyclic changes in amplitude, frequency, and rate of panning.

3. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein all of said steps are performed repeatedly on a particular individual over a period of time so that the individual is able eventually to reproduce said desired state of consciousness without further audio stimulation.

4. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein all of said steps are performed using the EEG of one individual, but said applying step is carried out with another individual, so as to transfer the desired state of consciousness of one individual to another.

5. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said first providing step comprises the step of providing a plurality of EEG waveforms, indicative of different respective states of consciousness, and each of said superimposing, creating, and second providing steps are performed with each of said plurality of EEG waveforms.

6. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said second providing step results in substantial synchronization of major portions of both brain hemispheres of said human being.