For the first time in the memory of his caregivers, both they and George experienced a majority of nights in which everyone involved slept through the night. It might be hypothesized that the simple addition of some sort of sound to at least a portion of the nighttime environment was enough to produce this change. However, the entire time under discussion (baseline and intervention) included use of a verbal sleep tape, most simply described as repeated stating of positive affirmations concern- ing George's behavior and functioning. This was played for thirty minutes each night after he was put to bed. Ed. note: See HEMI- SYNC JOURNAL, Summer 1990, Vol. X, No. 3, for a more complete description] Additionally and anecdotally, George began going back to sleep after his roommate left for school (a hitherto unknown event), worked harder and more persistently at tasks, spoke more clearly and accepted correction of his speech more readily, listened better and was less easily frustrated, started to enjoy books and to sit still for stories to be read to him, and slept through the opening and clos- ing of his bedroom door. The latter event used to wake him even though the adult detected no sound. Some forms of separation also became easier for him to tolerate—a ten-day absence of his foster mother and father produced no noticeable negative reaction. These all represented new behaviors in George's repertoire or increases in
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behaviors that were previously seen with less frequency. Recent reports (as of early September 1991) indicated that George's sleeping behavior no longer represented a problem to himself or anyone else. ‘The Super Sleep tape has been used with a variety of other chil- dren with differing diagnoses and degrees of parental compliance regarding consistency of use. The data-keeping regimens ranged from reasonably complete to anecdotal and the results from totally successful to no effect noted. If this data proves amenable to organi- zation and description, it will be presented in a later issue of this journal. @ THE EFFECT OF HEMI-SYNC ON THE SLEEP OF HYPNOTICS- ADDICTED PATIENTS by Regis Louis, MD Regis Louis is a psychiatrist in private practice in Melun, France, south of Paris. In his practice, relaxation techniques, hypnosis, and neurolinguistic programming (NLP) are used, as well as Hemi-Sync. He also has an interest in transpersonal psychology and is a member of the American Association of Transpersonal Psychology and the International Association for Near Death Studies (IANDS). In this report he describes « pilot study using Hemi-Sync to improve sleep quality for habitual users of sleeping medications. The intention of this survey was to determine, within my psy- chiatric practice, whether Hemi-Sync technology could help people who were taking sleeping medications to sleep better and perhaps to stop or to reduce drug dosage.
Five subjects were selected—all women between twenty-six and sixty-one years old. Each patient suffered from sleeping disorders associated with other mental illness: two had depressive disorder, ...Hemi-Sync had a benign effect on sleep patterns. three suffered from anxiety, one had an eating disorder, and one had an obsessive disorder. They had been taking sleeping medica- tion (hypnotics) for between two and five years. Three women were also taking benzodiazepine and three others some type of antide- pressant. All patients agreed to the following regimen: to listen to the tape with Hemi-Syne frequencies (a tape custom-made in the lab with the sleep processor) at bedtime; to repeat the tape if they awakened during the night; and to complete a printed form noting --- PAGE 6 (OCR) --- HEMI-SYNC™ JOURNAL the time they went to bed and the time they got up, the duration of sleep, how many times they woke up during the night, and the quality of their sleep and that of the following day. Additional remarks were requested. The form was filled out before and during the period of tape use. The period of the study varied from three months to six months. Results Of the five subjects, four listened to the tape for more than three months and only two filled out the report form correctly. They were seen for examination at least once every two weeks. ‘Three phases were noticed for all the subjects: * During the first phase (one or two weeks) sleep became better