But what if it did work? What if these tracks really got you high? I decided I should give this stuff a try, so I downloaded five different MP3 "dose packs" from I-Doser , a supplier of the futuristic, mind-melding drugs who take themselves quite seriously.
According to their website, they have "several teams of underground music and tonal experts, programmers, testers, researchers, and admins," and "each audio track contains advanced binaural beats that will synchronize your brainwaves.
There were a lot of different doses available —sexual doses, designer doses, sport doses, game enhancers, pure doses, and so on—so I had to be somewhat selective. I didn't want anything that produced a calming sensation, since I could get that from a meditative flute piece on YouTube accompanied by a still shot of a waterfall. I wanted to trip out and feel closer to the big man upstairs.
So I got the most advanced versions of the "recreational," "prescription," "fictional," "sacred," and "celestial" dose packs. Each contained four minute-long audio tracks, and I tried out the most interesting sounding ones. I went with Ambie, which is supposed to simulate the effect of Ambien. Now, I came into this thinking that these beats were all just a big pile of stupid, but I was determined to give it a shot.
I sat on a chair in my bedroom and put my ear buds in, started the track, and closed my eyes. I was trying to force myself into a Zen state and let the beats take over my mind. The track began with a steady, mechanical hum that occasionally got interrupted by some kind of static. It later flowed into a soft and calming mystical tune, the soundtrack of a fairytale. I didn't really feel anything for the first couple minutes, and I opened my eyes around four minutes into the session.
They felt a little heavy, but I told myself it was psychological, a placebo. Then I realized, hey this stuff is sort of the real deal. My head started feeling heavy and gradually got heavier and heavier.
By the end of the session my entire body was numbed and tingling. I started waving my arms around to prove to myself that these sensations were happening because I'd been sitting in the same position for 15 minutes with my eyes closed. It didn't help, though. My brain was empty and five minutes later, I still felt completely sedated. Here's a few examples, skip to about if you're impatient:. What you're seeing there isn't even a placebo effect, it's just peer pressure.
Like smoking banana peel thoroughly debunked , teenagers pretend to experience some kind of effect because they don't want to feel left out from a group of their friends who are all claiming to be getting high, especially when they know they've got a camera pointed at them.
Unfortunately, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs is fanning the flames of a moral panic, warning parents of schoolkids in the State that these MP3s could be dangerous, and even if they're not, could lead to kids trying something a little harder.
Some news organisations have taken that baton and ran with it, with the Sun Sentinel saying, ridiculously: "I think the fact the major universities have done studies which have been 'inconclusive' is reason enough for us to be worried.
This is a small collection of websites making vague promises of mood-altering, combined with the natural tendency of teenagers to seek out extreme experiences, and social pressures leading them to talk the effects up to their friends.
There's nothing wrong with either of those things on their own, but combining them into a moral panic distracts attention from dealing with far more serious problems with the world. Oh, and for the record, I've been listening to The Gates of Hades the entire time I've been writing this, which is the track that the teenagers in the video above are supposedly listening to. If you want to try it yourself, it's being taken down from YouTube by " copyright claims " from i-Doser, but should prove trivial to find on the web.
Naturally, we chose to go for the alcohol. The noise started. Heavy static came blasting through the headphones. Five minutes later another sound, a high pitched buzzing, like a television makes when the cable goes out, joined in. Our brains felt like they were vibrating as the sound continues for the next 20 minutes. During the last ten minutes, the static slowly faded out and eventually stopped. The buzz stopped shortly after, leaving us with a headache and the need for a nap but no feelings of drunkeness.
Next dose! Acid or peyote? No results, unfortunately, only now we felt stupid for even thinking that we would feel anything at all.
While it has been proven that binaural beats can induce various stages of consciousness, relaxation and focus, it seems far-fetched that it can mimic powerful, hallucinogenic drugs like peyote, LSD or mushrooms.
That said, a article in Alternative Therapies journal, concluded that, based on 20 previous studies, binaural beats is an effective therapeutic tool for people who are suffering from stress, pain, headaches and migraines. Furthermore, the researchers found that improvements in intelligence and behavior lasted after the binaural beats stopped, suggesting that the effects can be permanent.
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