Traditional / experimental practice
Threshold XI · Two Shores
Moving freely between inner attention and the outside world. The binaural tone always stays inside, in the centre; outside, a wide wind and the rustle of leaves come closer every few minutes and then recede again. The return isn't left for the last minute; it runs through the whole part: when the sound opens outward, give your attention to the room and your surroundings, when it turns inward, to your body. The beat descends from 7 Hz to 5 Hz and rises to 10 Hz at the end. The nature textures are synthesised, not recorded. An experimental ritual; you can stop at any time.
The same recipe with another seed: the raindrops, the order of the birds or the path of the chords change; the rules and evidence level stay the same.
A traditional or spiritual practice, not a scientific claim.
An experimental ritual. Avoid it if you have a history of dissociation, psychosis or severe anxiety. You can stop at any time.
Do not listen while driving or operating machinery.
Liner notes
- Bed
- Brown noise, Pink noise, Wind ×2
- Beat
- Binaural · 7 Hz beat
- What do you hear?
- wide · even
How is this sound made?
- Binaural−24 dB
Left 196.5 HzΔ 7 Hz · ThetaRight 203.5 Hz
- Brown noise−40 dB
- Pink noise−50 dB
- Wind−36 dB
Wind (ambient sound generated on your device)
- Wind−60 dB
Wind · broadleaf forest (ambient sound generated on your device)
- Beat → 5 Hz over 10 min
- Beat → 10 Hz over 5 min
- Reverb: hall, 25% mix
In the room you can listen to each layer on its own, change its settings and save it as your own recipe.
Sound is generated on this device in real time; no files are downloaded from a server. There is a 15 s fade-in at the start and a 2 min fade-out at the end.
Compare with another sound
Hear both at the same loudness; drag the slider to the middle and they blend.
Mixed in the middle, these two sounds would create an unlabelled binaural beat: the slider crosses the middle with a short crossfade.
8 trials, half of them the same sound; get at least 7 right and the difference is audible. The result stays on this device.
What do we know, what don't we know?
T · Traditional/spiritual practiceLast reviewed 9 October 2026
No scientific claim is made; it is offered as a cultural or personal practice.
A traditional or spiritual practice, not a scientific claim.
Sound protocols and out-of-body experiences
An experimental listening ritual; not a scientific claim, and it makes no claim of astral travel or of consciousness leaving the body.
Evidence level T: Traditional/spiritual practiceWhat do we know?
- Out-of-body experience is a described neurological phenomenon; research links it to a failure to integrate bodily sensory information at the brain's temporo-parietal junction.Blanke & Arzy 2005
What don't we know?
- Evidence gapThere is no controlled evidence that sound leads to astral travel or that consciousness separates from the body.
Studies
- Blanke & Arzy 2005 · Review
A session's level is the weakest of its linked claims; it is never raised by a strong but unrelated claim.
Its neighbours on the map
The five sounds closest to this one by measured sound features.
- 1Drift Off · Theta to DeltaWarm · steady · no melodyBoth binaural · both steady
- 2Schumann 7.83 HzWarm · steady · no melodyBoth binaural · both steady · same goal: explore
- 3Threshold IX · Silent CenterWarm · steady · no melodyBoth binaural · both steady · same goal: explore
- 4Threshold VII · Inner HorizonWarm · textured · moving aroundBoth wind · both steady, procedural · same goal: explore
- 5Theta 6 Hz · Deep UnwindWarm · steady · no melodyBoth binaural · both steady
Keep your device volume comfortable, preferably below 60%. You can also use your device's headphone-safety settings.