r/audiomeditation • u/auraneural • 5h ago
Guided I think we treat "relaxing music" and sound intervention as the same thing when they really aren't
Hello. I'm new here. I've been reading through this sub for a bit and I'm curious how many people here actually use sound as part of their biohacking experiments. Something that's bothered me for quite some time is how quickly everything gets grouped under "relaxing music." A Spotify sleep playlist, pink noise, a binaural beat, an isochronic pulse and a generated session built around a particular frequency/rhythm are not really the same experiment.
Even if they all sound relaxing. I've been testing short audio sessions and looking at the physiological response before/after rather than just asking "did I like it?"
Sometimes the session that feels nicest isn't necessarily the one producing the more interesting change. And sometimes a session seems to do very little because the starting state was already completely different. I'm curious how others here test sound.
Do you go purely by how you feel afterwards, or are you measuring anything alongside it?