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Sleep restored by Sound Therapy

“I lay down to sleep and, miraculously, I slept.”

Madonna Schoonder had always had bad concentration and memory but didn’t realise that this was linked to her inability to sleep a whole night through. “My whole life I’ve had trouble getting to sleep and staying asleep more than 2 or 3 hours, even when exhausted,” she said.

Because she was so used to her insomnia, Madonna wasn’t expecting a solution and when she heard about Sound Therapy she didn’t hold much hope that it would help. She was amazed when, after listening for three hours the first night, she slept soundly the whole night through - something that had never happened before. Madonna was also thrilled to be able to say “I’ve slept well every night since, even with my boyfriend there, who literally jumps around all night & constantly bangs the bed with his legs.”

Many relaxation programs work by slowing the brain and body rhythms to induce sleep. When the brainwaves go into a rhythm of 4 to 7 pulses per second, sleep occurs. The Sound Therapy program, however, developed by the ENT (ear, nose and throat) doctor Alfred Tomatis, achieves this in a very different way. Instead of entraining the brain to a slow rhythm, Tomatis Sound Therapy stimulates the brain with high frequency sound, using electronically altered classical music.

Balancing brain states

“Sound Therapy gives the brain back its ability to easily switch from one state to another,” the founder of Sound Therapy, Rafaele Joudry, said. “It promotes calm, focused concentration, putting you in an alpha state when you’re awake and wanting to concentrate. But when you lie down to sleep, you naturally slip into theta, and sleep usually comes in a few minutes.”

Jagjit had been an insomniac for years. Now, using the Sound Therapy player at night at very low levels, she sleeps through the night. Her husband says that if she wakes up, she rolls over and goes straight back to sleep.
Jagit Plahe
Jagjit had been an insomniac for years. Now, using the Sound Therapy player at night at very low levels, she sleeps through the night. Her husband says that if she wakes up, she rolls over and goes straight back to sleep.
Jagit Plahe

Brain stimulation

But why would fast, high frequency, complex and stimulating sounds produce better sleep?

Until now, researchers did not know the reason, but an answer may lie in recent new evidence in the field of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), an experimental treatment being used for Parkinsons sufferers, where a stimulating device is implanted into the brain.

A research team from the University of Rochester has identified a role in the treatment for the neurochemical adenosine,which is largely a by-product of the chemical ATP, the source of energy for all our cells. “Certainly the electrical effect of the stimulation on neurons is central to the effectof deep brain stimulation,” said Maiken Nedergaard, M.D., Ph.D.,the neuroscientist who led the research team. “But we also found every important role for adenosine, which is surprising.”

Sleep Facts

  • The "natural alarm clock" which enables some people to wake up when they want to is caused by a burst of the stress hormone adrenocorticotropin. Researchers say this reflects anticipation of the stress of waking up.
  • The 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Challenger space shuttle disaster and the Chernobyl nuclear accident have all been attributed to human errors in which sleep-deprivation played a role.
  • The NRMA estimates fatigue is involved in one in 6 fatal road accidents.
  • Exposure to noise at night can suppress immune function even if the sleeper doesn’t wake. Unfamiliar noise, and noise during the first and last two hours of sleep, creates the greatest disruption to the sleep cycle.
  • Seventeen hours of sustained wakefulness leads to a decrease in performance equivalent to a blood alcohol-level of 0.05%.
  • Some sleeping tablets suppress REM sleep, which can be harmful over a long period. In insomnia following bereavement, sleeping pills can disrupt grieving.
For the first time in many years I am able to lie and go to sleep without taking any pills! This alone makes me feel like a new person, not to be tied to the bottle of tranquilizers at bed time and to wake up after 4-5 hours of sleep feeling totally refreshed and no morning blahs. I awake feeling like a new person, so full of energy I couldn’t decide what to do first. I can’t believe how much energy I have!
Wanda Harrison, MI, USA

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