[plipt]

The Monroe Institute sells a series of audio clips that emit a different tone in each ear with which the brain creates a third oscillating tone. This third tone is known as binaural beats which they allege to synchronizes the brain's hemispheres.

The series is called the Gateway Experience. Its a kind of semi guided meditation using the binaural beats that is intended to induce out of body experiences.

I tried it years ago and although I never experienced a OOBE it did seem to induce lucid dreaming. Its a bit new-agey but not in a preachy or religious way.

https://hemi-sync.com/gateway-experience/

[mmh0000]

I am shocked to see The Gateway Experience mentioned. I specifically clicked on this story to post about it.

Anyway, TGE is a fantastic resource if you put the time into it. I've gotten to levels of meditation through it that still make me question reality.

On the one hand, I'm very much facts, data, and reproducibility oriented, and "I know" that everything I experienced was just my brain having fun.

On the other hand, WTF. Maybe I am more than my physical self, and there are alternate dimensions I can teleport myself to.

[thr0w]

> I've gotten to levels of meditation through it that still make me question reality.

I don't know if this matches anything you achieve through meditation, but I've had some incredibly complex and vivid dreams that make me question everything about myself and my brain. I tend to agree that it just comes down to an astonishingly powerful organ flexing its power.