Solving Insomnia and Sleep Problems Without Drugs

If you’ve been watching TVand paying attention, both of the best selling and most advertised drugs for sleep problems (Lunestra and Ambien) have been causing serious problems for some users.

If you really listen to their TV ads, (and all drug advertising ads) you’ll learn that both have various (and dangerous) side effects. As with all drug ads, a "spin" of the facts is done so as to make them seem pretty harmless, but if you listen carefully, these are actually pretty dangerous drugs, not "safe" for many people. Who wants to drive a car while asleep? (The clever "spin" in these ads does fool most people.)

Insomnia affects many thousands of persons. It is often a component of depression, and/or other "brain problems", such as ADD/ADHD. It was recently estimated that up to 25% of teenagers are not getting sufficient sleep. Many of these are also having attention problems in school as well, even if not diagnosed as ADD or ADHD.

24 million prescriptions were filled for insomnia last year according to Nightly News of NBC. This is a 2 billion dollar business.

Up to now, there have been three alternatives for sleep problems:

1. Suffer with it.

2. See a doctor and get a prescription with possibly dangerous side-effects.

3. Spend large amounts of money on EEG biofeedback (AKA neurofeedback).

Because of the cost of EEG BF, the only real alternative for most families has been prescription drugs. This is the same situation that applies to most "brain problems" - including depression, insomnia, ADD/ADHD and many others.

Now, there’s an inexpensive alternative that actually does the same thing that EEG BF does - namely raise one brain wave, and lower another. Most people don’t know what EEG BF does, and most of the people getting rich using it don’t want you to know the facts and how simple it really is.

There are thousands of audio signals that are actually generated as the brain goes abut its business. Some have compared it to a "Symphony in the brain". These signals are extremely weak, on the order of a few millionths of a volt. As the ability of electronics grew over the last century, it became possible to actually amplify these signals, and to even see and hear them.

Of course, if you just put them on a speaker, it’s a cacophony of noise without rhyme or reason. However, as electronic filters were developed, it became possible to filter out all except a narrow band. These were classified by early experimenters into several bands, and partially classified as to what each "band" was doing. It was an attempt to "read minds", but, of course, it didn’t succeed.

In 1969, a Dr Sterman found that by raising a small band of waves just above the Alpha brain wave some strange effects were noticed. Later this small band (12-14 Hz (cycles per second) was re-named SMR (Sensory Motor Response) because the "usual" sensor location on the head was over this brain area.

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