Patrick Moberg

Experiment

January 29th, 2007

For a while I used to listen to one of the Harry Potter books on my ipod every night when I would go to bed. I'd usually only get through small sections every night and then I'd fall asleep. One day I was driving from Providence, RI from Rochester, NY, so I figured I'd put on Harry Potter to pass the time. The trouble is after about 10 minutes or so, I started feeling really tired. My theory is that my brain related Harry Potter, or at least the sound of the guy who reads it, with sleep.

To see if I can reproduce this, I'm gonna try and listen to one particular CD whenever I want to focus on a particular project. I'm using an ambient CD to also see if that has any effect on my focus level. Hopefully my mind will form a link between working hard and this album. Eventually I'll be able to control my entire body strictly by sound.

Billy Brown suggested this related Wikipedia entry: Ivan Pavlov