A few days ago, the Japanese neuroscientist Takuro Endo carried out a massive experiment to see if music can be a good sleeping pill .
According to the Asian correspondent for the British newspaper The Times , Dr. Endo gathered 1,500 people in a Tokyo concert hall determined to create a show that would put them to sleep. Although the experiment did not have the expected success (more than half of the audience did not give a nap), it was clear that songs such as Nocturne , by Chopin, Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 , or the voice of the young singer Aoi Teshima intoning Rose , facilitate the transition to a state of drowsiness.
Takuro Endo, who has specialized in the neuroscience of sleep, assures that there are three musical categories : melodies that "ignite our imagination"; relaxing songs; and music that, listened to for ten minutes, slows our brain down to unconsciousness. The latter, he adds, should not ring in our vehicles while driving.
