Bad, bad, bad vibrations!
A weather watchdog has reported an uptick in Earth’s “hum-like” heartbeat, raising concerns that it could be affecting people’s brains.
Known as Schumann Resonance, this natural electromagnetic frequency creates waves in the gap between Earth’s surface and the ionosphere — the layer above Earth where sunlight charges particles, allowing radio signals to travel long distances, per NASA.
Created and maintained by lightning strikes around the world, this literal rock music generally reverberates at 7.83 cycles per second, measured in Herz.
However, online space weather tracking app MeteoAgent has recorded a spike in this pulse throughout February, which they say has the potential to cause problems.
The concern is that this Earthly rhythm is believed to affect brain wave patterns associated with everything from sleep to concentration, meaning that a sudden spike could theoretically throw our neural equilibrium off-kilter.
Indeed anecdotal reports have linked a disturbance in the forcefield to a variety of symptoms, including headaches, dizziness, brain fog, ringing in the ears and even mood swings and disrupted sleep.
During sleep or the preceding relaxation period, the brain creates “theta” waves, which clock in at between four and eight cycles per second, in sync with Schumann symphony, the Daily Mail reported.
As a result, any change in cadence can disrupt people’s Circadian rhythm, literally jolting them awake.
MeteoAgent experts blamed this terrestrial tempo slip on a moderate solar flare that disrupted Mother Earth’s metronome.
Scientists track these disturbances using a scale that runs from zero to 9 with zero signifying calmer conditions while 9 is synonymous with a geomagnetic maelstrom that can impact satellites, power grids and radio signals.
There were reportedly four days this past month were the scale surpassed 5.0, meaning that this space symphony could be felt by those sensitive to these wave frequencies.
However, as of yet, scientists haven’t established definitive proof that this phenomenon shocks the system in this way.
A study out of Japan examined whether Schumann Resonance affects blood pressure, suggesting a that it could possibly be affected by low-frequency electromagnetic variations.
However, this impact was more correlational with researchers concluding that other environmental and physiological factors likely played a part and that we’re not necessarily facing the geomagnetic music.