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It was fine to listen to at the start but it just got annoying after a few minutes. It needs to be more ambient to listen to while working. Its all rubbish the thinking behind it...
 
I usually have no time for a product/service that starts with a lowercase "I". Things like this are the reason why.
 
I wonder if these kinds of music can really make a difference? If you think about, I would normally say, no, absolutely not. But in my condition, you tend to believe things more becaus you can't think straight and logical anymore.

This is the one that I'm interested in. In my condition I would try everything to get better.

http://www.vth.biz/driver/imusic/thriveflow
 
The 'sample' appears simply to be the nice music heard in American Beauty. I'm guessing it's just a cheap trick to try and get people to buy loads of IDM or similar music. What a total waste of time and money!
 
If you’d ask me, I think that music has some effect of the brain, weather being by brain enhancers or not. This can also be a little psychological. If you really really really believe and have faith that something will work, it is likely that it would really work.

But on the subject, I think I’ve heard (on Discovery Channel) some studies about the correlation between music and the brain, and they were trying to enhance the brain with music changing the different sound waves (from left to right, in a imperceptible way). But it is stil something in study, not a proven theory (like they say in the web-site).
 
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This can also be a little psychological. If you really really really believe and have faith that something will work, it is likely that it would really work.
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Nah. You could really believe that listening to The Carpenters 16 hours a day could cure your asthma too, but it ain't gonna happen. But if the whole "I want it to work, so it will work" idea were true, then why would you need to buy iMusic at all? (seeing as how it is as likely to work as anything else you could 'believe' in...)

They claim to be able to improve things which are already difficult/impossible to quantify, and so they are protected by the fact that their claims are virtually impossible to test. Their central claim is also a bit of a weird concept from the outset - to help you achieve "peak performance". For how long? Relative to what? It is entirely possible that your brain's "peak performance" will still be lower than that of Stephen Hawking's brain while he's watching 'The Raccoons' (the last line in wfooshee's signature is a case in point ;) )... and what effect would "sustained peak performance" have? (i.e. would it be like using a drug, where the "high" becomes the norm, and if so, what happens when you stop?)

They claim it is "for every need", be it energy or sleep... focus or relaxation... so how can it possibly fail (or succeed!)?? It smells like a proper scam to me.
 
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There have been studies that different types of music will lead to slightly better comprehension when studying. Chopin will yield better results than, say, Tool.
 
The first sample thing I heard was taken directly (or was a very, very close copy) to Jakatta - American Dream.

I thought it was meant to be their own music?

I think the music can change your mood rather than anything else.
 
Obviously certain types of music express certain moods. Everyone knows that. Some are exciting, some are mellow, some are relaxing, scary, all sorts of stuff.

The only thing about this iMusic stuff that "changes" the way you think is the words. The things that they're saying during their demonstrations lead gullible minds to believe it. It's simple conditioning. If you tell them it's good enough times, then they'll eventually think it's good. I think the internet is a terrible place to try that though since there are so many places to find a differing opinion, and it's hard to teach something when people are getting contradicting information at the same time. The only people they'll be able to take advantage of are the ones who won't go out and find their own information on the subject--the dumb ones.

So, Kikie, I'd suggest not getting caught up into it. The "science" behind what they're selling can be learned in a high school psychology class.

EDIT: This stuff sounds like the music from a Rainbow Six game. Note the epic crescendos and the opera singers. It actually is good music. Good music sold under a bullcrap business model.

EDIT 2: I just said it was "good music". See, Kikie? I just proved that simple psychology works, even when you know how it works. :lol:
 
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