Patent No. 5213562 Method of inducing mental, emotional and physical states of consciousness, including specific mental activity, in human beings

 

Patent No. 5213562

Method of inducing mental, emotional and physical states of consciousness, including specific mental activity, in human beings (Monroe, May 25, 1993)

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.

Notes:  

Method of inducing mental, emotional and physical states of consciousness including specific mental activity in human beings. Filed April 1990, granted May 1993. Basically a brain programmer using audible sound entrainment and someone else's EEG patterns subliminally with/in the audible sound. Like most of the other patents, it doesn't go into the 'other' frequencies, as if the ones it uses weren't bad enough anyway. Does go into previous research a little. Gives credit to H.W. Dove for discovering binaural beat phenomena in 1839, basically means he named it as it was already occurring. Also states that what is described in the patent worked better on naïve subjects, which translates into non-consensual human experimentation.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

In view of the foregoing, it is one object of the invention to provide a method of inducing states of consciousness by generating stereo audio signals having specific wave shapes. These signals act as a carrier of a binaural beat. The resulting beat acts to entrain brain waves into unique waveforms characteristic of identified states of consciousness.

The method of the invention extends beyond the confines of the frequency entraining concept, and incorporates waveform entrainment by altering the wave shape of the binaural beat. Conventional binaural beat frequency entrainment previously has been limited to conventional wave shapes, i.e., square triangular sinusoidal, or in some cases, the various musical instruments. For example, it is known that radiant energy, such as sound in this case, may be defined by its frequency, amplitude, and wave shape. A musical note is a particularly suitable example of this. Generally, the musical note A above middle C in the twelve tone diatonic scale is assigned a frequency of 440 cycles per second. The amplitude of that note is expressed as the loudness of the signal. However, the wave shape of that note is related strongly to the instrument used. An A played on a trumpet is quite different from an A played on a violin.

The similarity results from the distinct shapes of the waveforms of each instrument. Similarly, human brain waves also have unique wave shapes, wave contours which are neither sinusoidal, nor square, nor triangular, nor like those of any musical instrument.

In accordance with the invention, human brain waves, in the form of EEGs, are superimposed upon specific stereo audio signals, known as carrier frequencies which are within the range of human hearing. Thus the invention relates not only to techniques of generating the binaural beat, but also to specific waveforms of the binaural beat in frequency, waveshape, and amplitude, and most particularly to the source of the data used to produce such waveforms.

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The method of the invention has applications in a number of different areas, not the least of which is the inducement of a state of sleep. Other areas of application include inducement of wakefulness of varying degrees; focusing of attention; inducement of mental and physical relaxation; enhancing intellectual performance in various mental disciplines such as mathematics; enhancement of creativity; the reexperience of previous activity; the acquisition of new abilities which others already have; reinforcement and restoration of weak areas in the mind and body; enhancement and strengthening of mental and/or muscular coordination; and development of integration of entire brain function. Human beings have EEG patterns which are unique to the various states of consciousness and mental and/or physical activity just mentioned, so that the imposition of the appropriate stereo audio signals on the desired EEG wave produces the binaural beat which is necessary to induce the state.

While the invention has been described above in detail with reference to a particular specific embodiment, various modifications within the spirit and scope of the invention will be apparent to those of working skill in this technological field. Thus, the invention should be considered as limited only by the scope of the appended claims.