The "binaural" beat goes on.

[missparkles]

Hi, swim is new here but has a question she would like to ask. Swim has always had trouble sleeping, from early childhood swim was afraid of the dark (still is) and this manifested itself into an almost phobic state as swim got older. Now even though swim is clean sleep is still a big problem.
When swim goes to bed, as soon as her head hits the pillow thoughts seem to appear from nowhere and torment swim. This has been a major issue in swims attempts to stay clean. A few months ago swims psychologist started swim on Binaural Beat or "white noise" therapy.
According to swims psychologist this therapy sends two seperate sound waves to each of swims ears and when swims brain hears these beats it tries to keep time with them. Although swim can only hear the sound of rain (extremely comforting) swims brain is actually being retrained to pick up this sound (which is swims natural brain rythm when sleeping) and go to sleep.
Swims psychologist gave swim two Cds to listen to. One to put swim to sleep (Alpha waves gradually replaced with Theta waves) and one to help swim concentrate (Beta waves gradually increasing to Gamma waves) and swim has found this extremely helpful.
Swim suffers from short term memory loss due to CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) and years of heavy opiate use.

What swim would like to know is, "Has anyone else tried this treatment, and if so how did it help, what were the best conditions (when extremely tired, or at a certain time at night) to use this treatment, to produce maximum effect."
Swim has read a little about how this works (she's read the literature her psychologist gave her and a lot of excellent information here at this site) but swim would like to hear thoughts from others about how it worked for them, if it did at all?
This is the first topic swim has started here so swim is a little anxious that others will understand her.
Thanks.

Sparkles.