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How to Get High: I-Dose with Binaural

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edited July 2010 in The Porch
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With a little help from the internet, young people getting high off of "digital drugs," NewsOK reports.

According to a News 9 segment, these "digital drugs" use "binaural, or two-toned, technology to alter your brain waves and mental state," producing a "state of ecstasy" for the user. i-Dosers listen to these atonal tracks while sitting motionless with headphones on.

Studies have shown that the binaural beats do not chemically alter the brain, but educators and law officials are worried that i-Dosing could be a gateway "drug" to other illegal substances. The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs has taken an interest in the phenomenon. "The bigger concern is if you have a kid wanting to explore this, you probably have a kid that may end up smoking marijuana or looking for bigger things," the Bureau's spokesperson Mark Woodward told NewsOK.

I-Dosing tracks like "Gate of Hades" can be found on YouTube, but Wired.com reports that there are more "advanced" ways of exploring "i-Dosing:"


Those who want to get addicted to the "drugs" can purchase tracks that will purportedly bring about the same effects of marijuana, cocaine, opium and peyote. While street drugs rarely come with instruction manuals, potential digital drug users are advised to buy a 40-page guide so that they learn how to properly get high on MP3s.

Psychology Today counters that binaural beats have been used therapeutically to treat anxiety and does not consider i-Dosing a danger to kids. For example, the University of South Florida did a study examining whether the binaural beats could help those with ADHD focus, and, on the whole, no studies have yet shown that the beats "chemically alter the brain" in any way, writes NewsOK.

Should parents really be concerned? A website selling a "digital drug" CD promises that the recording is a "completely safe, non-addictive binaural beat" that will provide the listener with "an ultra-happy mood and an increased confidence."
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  • mavimavi Posts: 941
    Digital drugs? :roll: :lol: Come on... what a load of bullshit and waste of time.
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  • BinauralJamBinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    mavi wrote:
    Digital drugs? :roll: :lol: Come on... what a load of bullshit and waste of time.


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    Nonsense!
  • jshinjshin Posts: 1,759
    a bag full of seeds and sticks...
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  • TheVan218TheVan218 Posts: 302
    Wait, so nobody's gotten high off the album "Binaural" before? And you guys call yourself fans... :)
  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Give me an effen break, if you look at it that way, anything you do for pleasure can be a gateway drug. We might as well all just lay down and die. :roll:
  • RearviewreleaseRearviewrelease Posts: 721
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    Give me an effen break, if you look at it that way, anything you do for pleasure can be a gateway drug. We might as all just lay down and die. :roll:


    I don't know what you're eye-rolling, the concept of sound waves altering one's state of mind into a euphoric state, or it being used as a gateway drug.

    Because sound waves 100% do have the power to alter one's mind in one of these states. It's scientifically proven
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  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Rearviewrelease wrote:
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    Give me an effen break, if you look at it that way, anything you do for pleasure can be a gateway drug. We might as all just lay down and die. :roll:


    I don't know what you're eye-rolling, the concept of sound waves altering one's state of mind into a euphoric state, or it being used as a gateway drug.

    Because sound waves 100% do have the power to alter one's mind in one of these states. It's scientifically proven
    meditating alters your mind, masturbation alters your mind, caffeine alters your mind, sunshine or the time of day alters your mind.. its easy to alter your mind.
  • RearviewreleaseRearviewrelease Posts: 721
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    Rearviewrelease wrote:
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    Give me an effen break, if you look at it that way, anything you do for pleasure can be a gateway drug. We might as all just lay down and die. :roll:


    I don't know what you're eye-rolling, the concept of sound waves altering one's state of mind into a euphoric state, or it being used as a gateway drug.

    Because sound waves 100% do have the power to alter one's mind in one of these states. It's scientifically proven
    meditating alters your mind, masturbation alters your mind, caffeine alters your mind, sunshine or the time of day alters your mind.. its easy to alter your mind.


    Yes, but sound waves can change brain CHEMISTRY.

    So...I still don;t understand what you're rolling your eyes at
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  • GmoneyGmoney Posts: 1,618
    well, for 10 years ive been completely addicted to our binaural ...
    Further back and forth a wave will break on me, today...
  • hopethatuchokehopethatuchoke Posts: 2,927
    News story about this from a few weeks ago:

    http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=5768240d-ce31-45dc-aa12-052945003350
  • DangDangDangDang Posts: 1,551
    I actually feel quite high whenever I listen to Binaural.

    Grievance into Rival? How can you NOT be altered?
  • Back_PedalBack_Pedal Posts: 1,171
    This shit has been around for years, and now all of a sudden it's a gateway drug? I agree with whoever said that that anything we do for pleasure should be banned, this is a little ridiculous. If these MP3s can recreate effects of real drugs, why would anyone want to bother taking the initiative to buy the real thing from someone when they can download a new MP3?
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  • geckogecko Posts: 1,712
    I listened to that, it just made me aware that I am hungry. Mind altering drugs have nothing on my stomach.
  • SolarWorldSolarWorld Posts: 1,902
    Someone is laughing their asses off right now.
  • FrankieGFrankieG Abingdon MD Posts: 9,100
    :) I dont now whether to belive this or not until I try it...
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  • Grandmas JamGrandmas Jam Posts: 1,860
    kids and their crazy drugs these days. what happened to smoking pot?
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  • geckogecko Posts: 1,712
    http://www.dailytech.com/Oklahoma+Narcotics+Bureau+Claims+Sound+is+Dangerous+Drug+to+Kids/article19053.htm
    We're not condoning drug use or anything, but here's some binaural tracks to check out for yourself: "Gates of Hades", "Pearl Jam - Nothing As It Seems", "Pearl Jam - Of The Girl".
    :lol::lol::lol:
  • jubilairesjljubilairesjl Posts: 498
    I just tried some Gate of Hades and now for some odd reason I want to do some heroin...no....it was kinda of weird because when I closed my eyes with my heaphones in, my head felt kind of compressed. But that was due to the headphones being in my head, not the music. Music can alter you mind though.....
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  • Gary CarterGary Carter Posts: 14,077
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    Give me an effen break, if you look at it that way, anything you do for pleasure can be a gateway drug. We might as well all just lay down and die. :roll:
    tiger woods would agree with you
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