This eight-minute song has been scientifically proven to help you sleep

There’s a song which has been scientifically proven to bring people’s pulse rates down – and the eight-minute track can even help people sleep.

The song, Weightless by Marconi Union, mixes ‘real’ instruments with low tones, which supposedly mimic a heartbeat.

Dr Svetlana Kogan says that the music has been proven to help people sleep.

Dr Kogan told CBS, ‘Music, my friends, is a much better, much healthier way to restore the sleep back to normal.

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‘They did measure the blood pressure of the people that were listening. They measured their heart rate, the activity in the brain and everything seems to have been subdued.’

‘We are constantly stimulating throughout the day, so by the time the evening comes around,, it’s very difficult for our nervous system to calm down.’

Created in collaboration with the British Academy of Sound Therapy, it was tested, and found to reduce anxiety by 65% in test subjects – and to bring people’s pulse rates down by 35%.

Since it was made in 2011, it’s been watched millions of times – and become one of the most popular ambient tracks of all time.