Brainwave Categories of Consciousness

  1. Overview
  2. EEG Patterns
  3. Brainwave Categories of Consciousness

 

Brainwave Categories

BETA (30–14 Hz)

  • Active, external focus

  • Logical thinking, analysis, decision-making

  • Verbal and task-oriented mental activity

ALPHA (14–8 Hz)

  • Relaxed, sensory awareness

  • Daydreaming, visual imaging

  • Acts as a bridge between the conscious and subconscious mind

THETA (8–4 Hz)

  • Access to the subconscious mind

  • Creativity, deep insight, spiritual awareness

  • Associated with dreaming sleep and emotional healing

DELTA (4–0.5 Hz)

  • Deep unconsciousness and non-dream sleep

  • Empathy, psychic sensitivity, and a gateway to universal awareness

GAMMA (30–100 Hz)

  • High-frequency, high-coherence brain activity

  • Associated with superlearning, compassion, transcendence, and states of spiritual ecstasy

  • Often harmonically linked with high-amplitude theta and delta waves

  • Reflects heightened spiritual intelligence and super-lucid awareness


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