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Binaural beats are pure garbage pseudoscience in the same vein as healing crystals and shit like that, so my guess is they aren't even producing what they claim to be. IE they're lying to you, guy!
Entrainment is not garbage science, its an established thing. In any case, I find them useful for various purposes so respectfully I kinda dont give a fuck either which way
Entrainment is most strongly related to light exposure, meal timing, and resource access.
I struggle to find anything related to audio.
Additionally, your headphones/phone/speakers do not have the ability to generate a 1hz tone with any power as to be noticeable or effective in any way. If anything can be tied to 1hz in the audio you're listening to in these videos it would be higher frequency tones, chords, or sounds that have a pattern that repeats once per second.
That doesnt negate the fact there is very much rhythmic/aural entrainment. Entrainment isnt just visual, its also very heavily associated with music and rhythm, so also aural and physical/motion
Ok but what do you hear in that video? Im trying to also figure out what the heck it actually is but its also isolated from the fact that I like it and I think it is relaxing
As I mentioned, I didn't find any official sources for that. I won't claim they don't exist, but the fact that research on that topic is harder to find does not work in favor of its validity.
I think this is all that you should be concerned about. If you like it, there's no harm in enjoying it as much as you like. Sometimes the mystery is the magic, y'know?
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