“If you want to find the secrets of the Universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” - Nikola Tesla

When I attended college with the elder redwoods of Northern California I was under the assumption that “vibes” was just some woke-hippy slang to use when perceiving the emotions or moods radiating off a person or event. We watched it morph into this meme-ish slogan “Good Vibes Only”, or some variation of that, on Target canvases and posters. Woke slang reached pop culture and it quickly became overused.

Regardless, I believe there is an intuitive truth to this expression.

Frequencies are built from vibrations, aka 'vibes'.

Consider the gut feeling, the 'spidey-sense', that lights up if you're within potential danger; or the ease you feel on a beach day that ends with a bonfire. Those emotions are generated from the frequencies your brain has picked up on.

We'll just skim the surface of the science mostly because I'm not confident that I can describe how this works through writing. Basically, molecules in the air around us move through space via vibrations. This leads to the particles colliding with each other or clumping together to form a wavelength, which in turn becomes a frequency.

For a visual understanding, I recommend taking a thirty seconds to search cymatics or Chladni plates on youtube. A cool video to watch is Cymatics: Science vs Music – Nigel Stanford, keep an eye out for the brief stream of water that is shown.

We know frequencies exist from the acoustic vibration experiments observed by German physicist Ernst Chladni, those experiments are known today as 'cymatics'. He discovered geometric patterns emerging within a layer of sand when sound is played into it. If you watched the video, then you might've noticed that sound can also manipulate patterns in water.

Quick question: How much of our bodies is made of water?

Our brains falls into a similar ratio in that 78% of it is high-quality H2O, another reason to stay hydrated!

So now that we're aware sound can influence water, is it possible for frequencies cruising-by to make an imprint onto our brains?

Well, we're all intimately familiar with music matching our moods so the better question might be: To what extent could those 'vibes' affect us?

I have no idea.

But I'll leave you with this for now - we have the musical technology that can be used to synchronize with our brainwaves and help guide us into the zone we want to be in.