Fox News: Are your kids getting high off of binaural MP3s? - Polidicks

[release]It is called I-dosing. Young people wearing headphones allegedly trying “digital drugs”, that what websites that sell the audio tracks call them. In some cases, there are some pretty strong reactions. The tracks have the same names are said to simulate real drugs. Downloads range in price. Many are around $3. Users weigh in about their experiences. Jack W. wrote, “I just had my first dose and wow. I am absolutely amazed.” Wade shared, “my mind was blown.” Volk wrote, “I kept seeing swirls of black and white.” But how real are these reactions? The site says these tracks are made by using binaural beats, a slightly different beat being played in each ear. The beats were discovered in the 1800’s and according to Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University, they are very common. “A binaural beat is nothing special, it’s nothing dramatic. It’s just a sound, that moves gradually from right to center to left and back again, and it does that rhythmically. So it’s something we use in experiments sometimes to test how people perceive sound that moves.” Is there reason to be concerned about the music’s effects? Even with the extreme reactions online, experts are skeptical. “Music can be very compelling and listening in quiet can change your attitude and cause a reaction and if it’s been suggested to you that it’s going to cause a specific reaction that could be part of the cause of what these people are experiencing,” Shinn-Cunningham goes on to say, “the physiological effects of listening to sound are never going to cause the same changes in the brain as a drug would.” “No, there isn’t any science whatsoever behind it. I can tell you that pretty clearly,” says Professor Robert Zatorre, a neuroscientist at McGill University in Canada. He feels the impact of these downloads may be oversold. “In our own research, we’ve found that highly pleasant music can actually release dopamine in the brain, which is a molecule which is associated with pleasure and the reward system. So all of this is to say that music, as we know, has very profound effects,” Zatorre says. When we contacted i-doser.com about our story, Nick Ashton, founder of the site, says the i-doser.com software has been downloaded 1.5 million times. Ashton also point to more that a thousand un-edited user experiences listed on his site.[/release] [url=http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/special_reports/i-dosing%3A-what%27s-behind-digital-drugs%3F]Source: Fox 25[/url] Ughh... :foxnews:

fox is a bit late on the bandwagon

Placebo #450 Stupid Fox News report # 5,753

[QUOTE=Shinn-Cunningham]Music can be very compelling and listening in quiet can change your attitude and cause a reaction and if it’s been suggested to you that it’s going to cause a specific reaction that could be part of the cause of what these people are experiencing[/QUOTE] Shinn, the man who doesn't need punctuation.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwk5kJLpreE&feature=player_embedded[/media]

It was only a matter of time.. :sigh:

We did a thread about this a couple weeks ago. I'll admit, if I closed my eyes and listened to the music, it was kinda psychadelic, and I felt dizzy when I turned it off and opened my eyes...

I might try this, live stream it.

ban .mp3s

It's about as harmful as weed. aka: it doesn't harm anyone and it's fucking stupid how teens think sounds can induce this

this is almost as retarded as that dumb e-cigarette shit that got posted a while back

420 listen to mp3s erryday

[QUOTE=Ridge;24985415]We did a thread about this a couple weeks ago. I'll admit, if I closed my eyes and listened to the music, it was kinda psychadelic, and I felt dizzy when I turned it off and opened my eyes...[/QUOTE] We've done dozens of threads about this over the past several years. I-doser is nothing new at all...

Oh dear god, I got to the second paragraph and cracked up laughing.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAj7ogsMy6k[/media] :lsd:

Lavender town. You're so late it's impossible to rate it. (Fox news, not OP)

Fox please kill youself now.

My brother OD'd on virtual marijuana. be serious about this guys.

this is old as shit

Wait, drugs with no negative effects? DAMN (If only it was real)

[QUOTE=johan_sm;24986113]Wait, drugs with no negative effects? DAMN (If only it was real)[/QUOTE] more like drugs with no effects at all maybe like headache of that horrible noise

Idiots. I can't believe how dumb Fox can get.

[QUOTE=Doomish;24985485]this is almost as retarded as that dumb e-cigarette shit that got posted a while back[/QUOTE] Yeah, let's compare e-cigarettes to a moronic placebo.

Wow. Not only is this old as fuck, it's completly harmless. Placebo anyone?

You're all saying it like placebo is a bad thing.

there exist placebo drugs they work in some cases

[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;24985303][release]It is called I-dosing. Young people wearing headphones allegedly trying “digital drugs”, that what websites that sell the audio tracks call them. In some cases, there are some pretty strong reactions. The tracks have the same names are said to simulate real drugs. Downloads range in price. Many are around $3. Users weigh in about their experiences. Jack W. wrote, “I just had my first dose and wow. I am absolutely amazed.” Wade shared, “my mind was blown.” Volk wrote, “I kept seeing swirls of black and white.” But how real are these reactions? The site says these tracks are made by using binaural beats, a slightly different beat being played in each ear. The beats were discovered in the 1800’s and according to Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University, they are very common. “A binaural beat is nothing special, it’s nothing dramatic. It’s just a sound, that moves gradually from right to center to left and back again, and it does that rhythmically. So it’s something we use in experiments sometimes to test how people perceive sound that moves.” Is there reason to be concerned about the music’s effects? Even with the extreme reactions online, experts are skeptical. “Music can be very compelling and listening in quiet can change your attitude and cause a reaction and if it’s been suggested to you that it’s going to cause a specific reaction that could be part of the cause of what these people are experiencing,” Shinn-Cunningham goes on to say, “the physiological effects of listening to sound are never going to cause the same changes in the brain as a drug would.” “No, there isn’t any science whatsoever behind it. I can tell you that pretty clearly,” says Professor Robert Zatorre, a neuroscientist at McGill University in Canada. He feels the impact of these downloads may be oversold. “In our own research, we’ve found that highly pleasant music can actually release dopamine in the brain, which is a molecule which is associated with pleasure and the reward system. So all of this is to say that music, as we know, has very profound effects,” Zatorre says. When we contacted i-doser.com about our story, Nick Ashton, founder of the site, says the i-doser.com software has been downloaded 1.5 million times. Ashton also point to more that a thousand un-edited user experiences listed on his site.[/release] [url=http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/special_reports/i-dosing%3A-what%27s-behind-digital-drugs%3F]Source: Fox 25[/url] Ughh... :foxnews:[/QUOTE] hi doug!!!!

[QUOTE=pudt duck;24986707]hi doug!!!![/QUOTE] I think you need boxes. So does Fox.

The people at fox news must be the ultimate party-crashers...

[QUOTE=Grey;24985464]It's about as harmful as weed. aka: it doesn't harm anyone and it's fucking stupid how teens think sounds can induce this[/QUOTE] Smoking anything is bad for you, I'm sure weed has its own long term effects.