So my local news station just did a rather long story about this new healing technique for the brain.
A couple of people claim to have benefitted from the treatment, but I gotta say, it just sounds like bunk to me.
They record your brain and then turn it into music, which you then listen to. And then your brain begins to heal.
So, anybody heard of this? Anybody ever done it? Am I wrong and this is a really great thing?
What do you all think?
What does it claim to heal? Tumors? Alzheimer’s Disease? Gunshot wounds? Then yeah, it’s bullshit.
If it claims to help depression or something, it might make you feel better for a little while. But any music you like can do that…for a little while.
Idiotic nutty crackpot scam nonsense that is not even wrong.
BTW, a “news” (and I use that term incredibly loosely) site has a video about this up, and provides this transcript (spoilered for lenght) I have not watched the video, but I like to imagine it as being a 100 percent match to the transcript:
[spoiler]HE SAYS NOT ONLY IS SHE GETTING BETTER SLEEP NOW, THE SESSIONS HAVE CHANGED HER LIFE FOR THE BETTER. YOU CAN’T TELL NOW, BUT APRIL COALFIELD USED TO BE AFRAID TO REFER HOUSE. BUT SHE SAYS EVERYTHING CHANGED. AS IF SOMEONE FLIPPED A SWITCH. WHEN SHE HEARD THE SONG HER BRAIN MAKES, FREQUENCIES CAPTURED BY SENSORS ATTACHED TO VARIOUS PARTS OF H HEAD, TURNED INTO MUSICAL TONES AND SIMULTANEOUSLY PLAY BACK TO OUR. TECHNOLOGY CALLED BRAIN ECHOING. . THESE HOUR-LONG SESSIONS. PUT APRIL INTO SOME OF THE BEST SLEEP SHE HAS EVER FELT. >> SOME SLEEP. . THAT WAS THE BEST EVER. REPORTER: BUT BETTER SLEEP WAS NOT THE REASON SHE CAME HERE. SHE SAYS IT WAS HER DESPERATION TO FIND HEALING. >> I THOUGHT IT WAS MY FAULT ALL THOSE YEARS. REPORTER APRIL WAS SEXUALLY ASSAULTED DURING HE TIME SERVING IN THE U.S. AI FORCE. SHE HAD LAST TRAUMA IN FOR 35 YEARS. THE POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER SHE WAS LIVING WITH BECAME UNBEARABLE. >> I WOULD START HAVING NIGHTMARES THAT WER SO – [SIGHS] – FRIGHTENI THAT I WOULD WAKE UP SCREAMING. REPORTER: THIS LACK O REST AFFECTING HER MEMORY, EMOTIONS, AND ABILITY TO RELATE TO OTHERS INCLUDING HER TWO DAUGHTERS. A POST ON HIS SEEING THERAPIST. SHE SAID THAT BEGAN THE HEALING PROCESS. BUT IT WAS NOT UNTIL SAREASAT THAT SHE WAS A WAY TO REGAIN HEALTHY SLEEP AND BEGAN FEELING BETTER PHYSICALLY AN MENTALLY. >> IT LETS THEM RAIN GEAR ITSELF SO IT IS DOING ITS OWN SELF REPAIR. REPORTER: OUR BRAINS ARE AN AMAZINGLY COMPLEX OUT OF OUR BODIES. >> CLINICS OWNER SAYS ONE-TIMES PEOPLE CAN USE HELP TO HEAL FROM THE TRAUMAS AND STRESSES OF LIFE. REPORTER: WHEN A BRAIN IS TIGHTLY PACKED AND IT HAS HAD A LOT TRAUMAS, IS BAD. IT IS LIKE BUD. WHEN IT STARTS FEELING, THA BUD OPENS UP AS FLOWER. REPORTER: SHE SAYS HER MAIN GOAL IS TO HELP THOSE SUFFERING FROM PTSD AND BRAIN INJURIES. >> THERE ARE TOO MANY OUT THERE HAVI BIG PROBLEMS. I AM TIRED TO SEE THEM KILLING THEMSELVES. REPORTER: BUT SH SAYS ANYONE CAN BENEFIT. FOR EXAMPLE, SYMPTOMS LIKE IRRITABILITY, RUTHLESSNESS, MEMORY ISSUES AND HITTING THE YOU’RE IN FOG, SHE SAYS THE PROCESS ALLOWS THE BRAIN TO DO ITS OWN HEALIN WORK. >> AS IT HEARS ITSELF, IT RECOGNIZES WHAT IS NOT GOOD AND I STARTS REPAIRING ITSELF. SO IT IS THE ULTIMATE INSULT FEELING. REPORTER: AS FOR APRIL, HER MESSAGE FOR A RUN SUFFERING THAT SHE WAS, DON’T BE AFRAID TO REACH OUT FO HELP. >> BEFORE WHEN I WOULD TELL MY STORY, I WOULD CRY. TH TIME, I FELT A TEAR, BUT I DIDN’T CRY. REPORT
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I especially like this passage:
“Our brains are an amazingly complex out of our bodies. Clinics owner says one-times people can use help to heal from the traumas and stresses of life. When a brain is tightly packed and it has had a lot traumas, is bad. It is like bud. When it starts feeling, tha bud opens up as flower.”
I certainly don’t want to hear the cacophony that will emerge from my noisy brain.
Total nonsense!
I mean, I know some people use music to help with their anxiety, but that’s music that they find inspirational, or they find relaxing or whatever. “Brainwave” music doesn’t sound like it’s either of those. At best, a poor substitution.
Right!? The very thought scares me silly! I was surprised to see this on my news show though. They were sure treating it serious.
**Brain Echoing. Heard of it?
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Would you mind telling us what news station reported this, and what their take on it was(“What a load of horseshit!” vs. "Ain’t science wonderful!)?
I had this done. Imagine my surprise when I got the CD, put it in the player and heard “Comfortably Numb”…
It was on KCRA here in the Sacramento area. They seemed approving of the idea, or at least that is the impression they left me with. I can’t remember seeing them do a story like it before. But that’s probably due to my inattention in times past.
Ludovic, I appreciate your contribution. 
I laughed.