Not sure if this makes me strange or not, but my normal, waking, operational frequency appears to be between 6.8 and 7.4. Every time this video gets to about 6.5, I start to wake up. I tested it against a couple of the 90 minute ones, because I can stay awake through those, and sure enough, I can feel the drop and the rise back up, but at the start of the alpha sections, around 8 hertz, I start kicking into overthink and hyper mode. I thought that was supposed to be high alpha and beta's department? Like, 20+ Hertz? I'm typing this at 7.4 hertz and when I first checked this morning it was at 6.7. I've already made coffee, worked on a piece of needle lace art, and written in my journal, too. Just wondering if it's odd that I seem to be functional at these lower levels. As cycle 6 moves up to what is supposed to be active state, at 27 hertz, I just find it irritating. Not painful or anything, but just too much for me. From what I can find to read on this, it is out of the norm to be alert and functional, in what is supposed to be a meditation frequency. Anyone else have this happen?
According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine guidelines (for looking at EEG recordings and figuring out of a person is sleeping or not), pretty much anything below 7 Hz is "definitely asleep" unless their eyes are open. Which device are you using to get your numbers?
Gloria Meadows