CB-7.83CogniBeats neural entrainment engine. Approved for release to the listener.
CogniBeats
A neural entrainment engine, recovered from the file and rebuilt for one listener.
To
The listener
Subject
Self-administered entrainment
Choose a session below. Programs glide the frequency for you and fade out on their own.
Wear headphones and start with the master volume low.
Press play or the space bar. Keys 1 to 6 switch sessions.
Method adapted from
, 1983. Pages 13 through 18 withheld.
DeclassifiedApproved for release
Session in progress
Fig. 1Consciousness energy grid. The subject sits where the three planes cross.
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Session
Each frame plots the frequency path of its program, from start to fade-out.
Hz, between 0.5 and 60
Rhythm
Personalize: your lines, your plan, the file
When Ithen I
In the file
2
Sound
A soundscape under the tones, breathing with the figure and the breath bar.
55%
25%
Breath
Guided sessions always breathe 4 in, 6 out, in step with the lines.
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Signal
Solid blocks are playing. Dashed blocks are off.
Fig. 2What reaches your ears, updated live.Fine-tuning
Carrier
Let the sound change
Breathing figure
Ready
Breathe in
20%
High volume. Turn it down for long sessions.
ProtocolOpen Hands
Released
Breathe in
Before you begin
File it.
Anything on your mind? Write it down and file it. It will be here, untouched, when you're done.
Filed
Session complete.
Your hands are free.
Fingertips together whenever an urge shows up. It always passes.
Still in the file
Appendix A
Operating manual
Programs
Pick a program and a duration; the engine glides the frequency for you and fades out at the end. Keys 1 to 6 switch programs.
Focus
Alpha settle, beta build, gamma focus nested in alpha, then cooldown.
Meditate
Alpha, then 7.83 Hz at the edge of theta, then theta, with swelling pulses.
Sleep
Theta, delta, then deepest delta, with gentle drift.
Energize
Reverse wake-up: delta, theta, alpha, beta.
Free Play
Pick a rate and a rhythm right under the session cards; it runs until you stop it.
Some program stages nest fast pulses inside a swell at your alpha rate, or let the rate wander by about 1% so the brain keeps tracking on long sessions. Both happen on their own.
Open Hands
A guided session of about 11 minutes for letting go of a habit like skin or nail biting. One line appears per breath while the audio settles from alpha into theta and back. It moves through six stages: arrive, notice your hands, see the habit clearly, close the door on it, anchor a new response, and return.
The anchor
Pressing your fingertips together; the hands on the plate show you when. The session pairs it with a phrase so the two call each other up. Use it whenever an urge shows up: it keeps your hands busy until the urge passes.
Your own lines
Write up to six under Open Hands and they're woven into the session. Lines you write yourself tend to land hardest.
File it
Before the full session, you can write down whatever is on your mind and file it. It stays in the file, untouched, until you come back to it or let it go. Parking worries on paper before rest is a well-supported way to quiet them.
Your plan
An if-then plan in your own words: when I notice this, I do that. Plans phrased this way are among the best-supported tools for following through, so the session rehearses yours during the anchor.
Urge? 60 seconds
The button in the top bar runs a one-minute version for the moment itself: one breath, the gesture, and a line.
Space pauses and resumes a guided session. This is a wellbeing exercise, not treatment. For persistent skin or nail biting, habit reversal training works well; bfrb.org lists specialists.
Soundscapes
Five choices under Sound. The sea and the cicadas breathe with you; pink and brown noise are steady beds, good for masking, that still carry the pulse.
Summer cicadas
A chorus modelled on a field recording of cicadas: two species clicking about 76 and 180 times a second, each click ringing near 8 kHz, calls that climb with your in-breath and fade through the out-breath. With the pulse on, they chirp in time with slower beats, and at gamma the slow species locks its own clicks to the beat, two per beat. A good match for Focus.
The sea
Surf that rolls in as you breathe in and draws back as you breathe out. It is modelled on a real surf recording, measured in nine frequency bands: each breath borrows the shape of one of eight real waves, stretched to fit your breathing, with the recording's own balance of lows, mids and highs and its stereo width. No two breaths in a row get the same wave. Close your eyes and let your breathing follow it. It works with every session, and a small breath bar in the player shows the same rhythm.
Paces
Resonant (4 in, 6 out) is about six breaths a minute, the slow-breathing rate most studied for calm. Slow (4 in, 7 out) suits sleep. Easy (4 in, 4 out) is a gentler start. Changing pace keeps your place in the breath.
Guided sessions always breathe 4 in, 6 out, so the waves, the breath bar and the lines move together, and pausing freezes all three.
Breathing figure
The dust on Fig. 1 follows the same breath: it gathers in toward the head as you breathe in and drifts back out as you breathe out, circling slowly, a little faster in the higher brainwave bands. It moves but never flickers. Switch it in the player; it stays still if your device asks for reduced motion.
Making it land
The settings that strengthen entrainment, and why:
Carrier tuned to the rate
The brain responds more strongly to pulsed tones of a few hundred hertz than to very low ones, especially at fast rates, so the pitch rises with the beat: about 160 Hz for deep delta, 320 Hz for alpha, 490 Hz for gamma. It's trimmed so it doesn't get louder. Prefer a darker sound? Choose Low and soft under Fine-tuning.
Pulse
The ocean and the noise bed carry the beat as well, in their 1-4 kHz range, where hearing is most sensitive. A broad sound reaches far more of the ear than a single tone, and keeping the low rumble smooth avoids roughness at fast rates. 0% leaves the sea untouched.
A sound that changes
Over minutes, the sea drifts brighter or darker, calmer or livelier, wider or narrower. The brain tunes out sound that never changes; a slowly changing one keeps it listening. Switch it off when you want a fixed sound, such as when comparing settings.
Your alpha
Alpha stages use your own alpha rate. Natural alpha varies from about 8 to 12 Hz between people, and rhythms take most easily near where the brain already sits.
Sharp pulses where it counts
Focus and Energize finish on isochronic pulses, the strongest driver. Binaural beats are the weakest, and fade above about 30 Hz. Sleep and Meditate use soft, rounded pulses on purpose, because comfort matters more than strength when you're trying to let go.
You
Closed eyes, headphones, a quiet dim room and at least 15 minutes help as much as any setting. So does paying attention to the sound.
Brainwave frequencies
Gamma (40 Hz)
High-level information processing and peak concentration.
Beta (20 Hz)
Alert consciousness and focused attention.
Alpha (10 Hz)
Relaxed alertness, creativity, and flow states.
7.83 Hz
The edge between alpha and theta, a gentle bridge into meditation.
Theta (6 Hz)
Deep relaxation, meditation, and memory consolidation.
Delta (3 / 1 Hz)
Deep, dreamless sleep and physical restoration.
Rhythms
Isochronic
Strongest cortical driving. Sharp on/off pulses.
Pulse
Clean rhythmic amplitude modulation.
Swelling
Pulses that rise and fall in strength, easier on long sessions.
Binaural
Headphone-only phantom beat (weak above ~30 Hz).
How to use
Headphones for anything involving binaural or hybrid. Start at low master volume and let the session run; the fade-out at the end is automatic. Space bar plays and stops.
Safety
Caution. Do not use if prone to seizures. Do not drive while listening. This is a wellbeing tool, not a medical device.