Sci-fi sleep aids: How to cure insomnia without prescription drugs

Sleeping during these dire times of financial insecurity is trouble for most, but for the millions affected by insomnia, it’s even harder. The herbal teas, amino acids and over-the-counter sleeping aids, just don’t work all the time, and prescription drugs are not only addictive, but some can cause nightmares and leave a bitter aftertaste the next day. 

Besides, who wants to wake up feeling as if they’ve been smacked in the head with a frying pan?

I also, suffer from sleepless nights. One sleepless night, dreading the midnight hour, I decided to research alternative therapies for soporific bliss. That’s when I discovered a neurological process known as brainwave entrainment. Using headphones, two audio streams are sent to a listener-one to the left ear, the other to the right (binaural)-the effect of which is that you can actually manipulate and change your mental state. In layman’s terms, throughout the day we go through several states of consciousness. For example, to fall asleep, you go from the waking (beta) state, through alpha and theta, to the sleep state (delta). Brainwave entrainment lets you access any of these states at will! Sounds very sci-fi, but I tested two technology-assisted sleep programs over the course of a month, using them to take naps and fall asleep at night, and the results where truly astonishing! Both programs work on Mac and PC platforms. These amazing audio programs may not wean everyone off Ambien, but they’re definitely worth trying out, and you can try them both for free