Traditional / experimental practice
Dream Gate · Lucid Preparation
A calm preparation before sleep; keep your intention phrase (MILD) in mind.
Do not listen while driving or operating machinery.
How is it made?
- Binaural · Left 177 Hz · Right 183 Hz · Beat 6 Hz (Theta)
- Pink noise
Sound is generated on this device in real time; no files are downloaded from a server. There is a 10 s fade-in at the start and a 2 min fade-out at the end.
Evidence
D · Insufficient evidenceNo clinical support; only laboratory findings, anecdotes or a single small study.
There is no controlled evidence that binaural beats increase lucid dreaming; they can be used as part of a relaxing preparation.
Evidence level D: Insufficient evidence- What do we know?
- Higher gamma activity around 40 Hz than in REM sleep was measured frontally during lucid dreams (6 people). In one study, applying 25 and 40 Hz electrical current there increased self-awareness in dreams; but the stimulation was electrical, not sound, and in a follow-up study, signal-verified lucid dreams also occurred with sham stimulation.
- What don't we know?
- No controlled study has tested whether binaural beats increase lucid dreaming. A review of 35 studies found that no technique reliably induces lucid dreams.
A session's level is the weakest of its linked claims; it is never raised by a strong but unrelated claim.
Keep your device volume comfortable, preferably below 60%. You can also use your device's headphone-safety settings.