 So can binaural beats make you high or help you to hallucinate? This is a question I got asked in a few comments the other day and the short answer is no they can't make you hallucinate as such unless you do one particular thing which I'm going to talk about in a second and in terms of making you high. When people say the word high in reference to this sort of thing they normally mean like can create an insane sense of euphoria and make you feel really good. In that sense yes it can, yes you know certain types of binaural beats can do that but it won't be quite the same as you know a lot of recreational drugs and things like that which have more of an effect and in many ways that's a good thing because what a lot of these you know recreational things do is they overload the dopamine system to the point where if you keep doing it you'll develop a tolerance which is not a good thing. In any situation where you're increasing your tolerance to something you need more and more of that thing that substance or whatever it is to get the same or diminishing returns so over you know a long period of time you get addicted you build up the tolerance and it's not good it's really not a good thing. However binaural beats usually as far as I'm aware they have almost no side effects unless you have a pre-existing condition relating to your like your hearing or epilepsy or something like that and they're in many cases free widely available on youtube. The best quality ones usually are the ones you actually have to pay for because when you upload a binaural beat to youtube it kind of downcodes it a bit and the quality and the effect is nowhere what you would experience if you downloaded the track from you know the producer the actual website instead of just on youtube. But they can increase dopamine and endorphins which are two of the kind of feel-good chemicals or hormones so the effect of that you know the feeling that you will get is you will with certain binaural beats you will feel euphoric high I guess you could say you will feel like really happy intensely just blissed out I guess you could say I don't really know what the right word is for that and yeah I've experienced this myself I know a lot of people who have done the same depends on the type of binaural beats so not all of them have this effect but if you get the right ones you know there's ones for literally for feeling good or feeling happy you know anti-depression binaural beats these things are all out there and you can experiment with them yourself even the free ones on youtube they do kind of work they just don't work as well as some of the paid ones in my experience at least now can a binaural beat make you hallucinate not really or at least not until you add the visual aspect as well so what I mean by that is you have really you have two options if you want to hallucinate using binaural beats you have the first option which is to induce kind of like a Gansfield effect so for those who don't know the Gansfield experiment was when they took essentially like two halves of a ping-pong ball I don't know if that's what they used but that's basically what it was two kind of semi-circle spheres of plastic put them over people's eyes and you know left them alone to see what would happen and over you know the course of a few minutes half an hour one or two hours the people in this experiment they would really vividly hallucinate because when your mind or when your brain doesn't have stimuli coming in especially if it's a Gansfield effect so it's like everything's white but you can't really focus on anything you'll hallucinate really vividly and you can try this yourself if you have a couple of ping-pong balls lying around if not they're a couple of dollars on Amazon and this effect is really interesting now what some machines can do and you've heard me talk in in the past on this channel about mind machines and mind machine is like a device which combines binaural beats with a Gansfield effect so they have these goggles that you put on if you've never heard of this before by the way just go to my channel now or maybe I'll put it in the description just type in mind machine or even just go and search my channel for machine and all of the videos I have about these things will pop up where I like I show you them show you how they work the flashing lights and everything but basically what it is is the goggles that you put on they have been algorithmically tied to the binaural beats so that it shows you a series of flashing colored lights basically in these goggles and that can have a hallucinogenic effect and in many cases especially with some of the newer ones like the mind place lamina and again I have videos going into a lot of detail on these things on my channel they really can have an interesting hallucinogenic effect now it's nothing like a real hallucigen I think I'm saying that right hallucinogen but it's definitely interesting but that's not really the reason that you would use that okay I mean you might just do it for fun maybe you came up with this video just looking for some like a fun way to hallucinate it can kind of have that effect but the real reason you would use it is for the actual changes it makes to your brain waves and in that sense they really can help you feel or perform better so if you're looking for binaural beats that will make you I guess you could say high or you know will make you feel happier less depressed more energetic more blissed out then there are loads to choose from I have spent a long time going through these things and testing different ones and I've got a list of the best ones I kind of reviewed them all on my website howtolucid.com I'll try and put a link in the description to that but if not just go to my channel and just type in binaural so hopefully that's helped if you do have any questions let me know in this video and I'll make a new response to it and I'd love to hear what you think so see you next time