Return to Sleep
Thoughts
Nature Sounds
vs. Virtual Dreaming for Relaxing
As business has steadily increased I have
been thinking about what exactly we do here and where
it is going. What I mean is, we are the only company doing
what we are doing and there will be an eventual need for me
to speak to the media about it, all the while not acting
like an eccentric or simply a fellow with Obsessive
Compulsive Disorder.
I state that we are the only company
doing this. Let me explain. There are plenty of other
companies involved in relaxing nature sounds. Too many to count,
really. There is also a plethora of sites dedicated to
insomnia help. Again, the numbers would boggle the mind. But our
take on sleep and relaxation sounds is different. Nature
sounds, by themselves, help to calm our thoughts. That's a
given. By adding the context of an actual place and time
into the mix we are stimulating the listener's imagination.
This natural ability we humans have for visualization acts
as a bridge between our conscious minds and our desired
unconscious sleep state. I know I am sounding like a broken
record but when we visualize we are using the same portions
of our brain as when we are dreaming (or meditating with
visual imagery for that matter). This area of our brains is
called the Secondary Visual Cortex.
This new genre' of nature sounds lends
itself not to a handful of scenarios, like conventional
relaxation and nature sounds do, but to hundreds of different scenarios.
So many sounds... so little time
The paradigm is simple. Establish,
through audio, a particular scenario and eventually meld it
into what would be considered as more conventional
relaxation or nature sounds. Example: If you are on a
tropical beach vacation you would certainly hear more than
just ocean waves. You might hear people on the beach, a
distant plane flying overhead, indigenous music, as well
as the ocean waves. As long as the 'visualization
sounds' are kept at a distance and do not overwhelm the
chosen relaxation sounds (in this case ocean waves) one can
get the benefit of visualizing combined with relaxing nature sounds.
The effect might amaze you and it will certainly help you
sleep. All anyone has to do is visualize and let the natural
sleep process take over.
It works for me and I'm an insomniac.
A really, really bad insomniac.
Brad McBride
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