iDosing: Teens hopped up on digital drugs!

[CptStern]

Videos posted on YouTube show a young girl freaking out and leaping up in fear, a teenager shaking violently and a young boy in extreme distress.

This is the world of ‘i-Dosing’, the new craze sweeping the internet in which teenagers used so-called ‘digital drugs’ to change their brains in the same way as real-life narcotics.

They believe the repetitive drone-like music will give them a ‘high’ that takes them out of reality, only legally available and downloadable on the Internet.

The craze has so far been popular among teenagers in the U.S. but given how easily available the videos are, it is just a matter of time before it catches on in Britain.

ZOMG WONT SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDRENS

Those who come up with the ‘doses’ claim different tracks mimic different sensations you can feel by taking drugs such as Ecstasy or smoking cannabis.

The reactions have been partially sceptical but some songs have become wildly popular, receiving nearly half a million hits on YouTube.

Under one called ‘Shroom’, Berecz wrote: ‘just listened to this... at the beginning I began to see some blinking light (while eyes closed), then the pitch went up and I began to feel that Im sinking into my chair...as the pitch went down I began to feel confident, and very relaxed, and I dont want to stand up from my chair and I dont want to say any words...’

sounds more like iTarding


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...gh-music-download-internet.html#ixzz0uKcblSZ8

 

[Eejit]

DAILY MAIL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SECTION

The real question is what types of cancer will this cause?

 

[ríomhaire]

I laughed at the first comment

When I started I-Dosing a year ago it was just for fun. I had an otherwise normal life. Fast forward to now... I've been layed off, I lost my car, and I I-Dose every chance I can get. To pay for my fix I rob unlocked cars and a couple of times prostituted myself, just for the iTunes money. I'm probably losing my apartment soon, but I don't care, all I need is my iPod and my headphones. Can't wait to iDose again...

 

[Minister]

Some of the comments are the best thing about the article.

"Kids will be kids. Stupid kids will be stupid kids. And todays' kids are about as stupid as humanly possible while still remaining alive. When they reach adulthood it will be a very interesting time, indeed."

 

[Wanted Bob]

I loved this one:

I was at a local basketball court in Philadelphia and some friends and I were playing a game. A couple of guys came down the street and they were listening to headphones. They were talking crazy and started fighting. Turns out, they were "dosing." My mom was so upset she sent me to live with my aunt and uncle here in California.
- F Prince, Belair, US, 21/7/2010 13:17

 

[Eejit]

It really is like something from Brass Eye.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4f4oy2M_Og

 

[Dekstar]

I saw a similar thing posted on slashdot a while ago. I usually go on there to read the funny comments, and I found this:

Up until high school, I spent my entire life locked into an ideal Norman Rockwell painting. No cares, no worries and just high on life. Things took a turn for the worse one day when I picked up an 288 tuning fork and a 320 tuning fork. I struck them both against my leg and held one up near either ear.

It was pure bliss. Like Jesus was just 32 hertz away from me. I wish I could describe the feeling. Like half of all the blades of grass in the universe were hummingbirds and the other half were bumble bees.

Let's see--I was a freshman at that time. Yeah, things just went downhill from there. I had earrings made with a tuning fork hanging from each one. The left side was A440 and the right side was a custom 444. I could raise my fingers to either lobe and flick it for instant gratification. The other kids called it ear basing. I called it god. And he was just nineteen dollars and eighty cents on Amazon [amazon.com]. By my sophomore year I was already pretty hard into Fourier transforms. Everyone's tympanic membrane had a bifurcation sweet spot that could be exploited with the right theoretical frequencies. Yeah, we would rent middle of nowhere motel rooms to smelt hematite down into custom tuning forks and poor them into clay molds in the bathtub. We paid in cash and by the time the cleaning made hit the room it was slag burns in the carpet and clay all over the place. You probably remember the 20/20 investigations following all the reports.

Shit got real heavy real quick and one day we found Scrye (nickname for the metallurgist) hemorrhaging blood out of his ears in a coma from strapping two subwoofers to either side of his head with duct tape. I knew I had to get out, but how?

We gathered up all our text books on math, audio & music theory, physics, chemistry, electronics and metalworking and burned them in the parking lot of the hospital we brought Scrye to. I would never read about science again.

Parents, heed the images of those children getting 'innocent' highs from sounds and make sure they don't make the same mistake I did. This is just a gateway to bigger and badder things. If you find literature on Fourier Analysis, Electronics or Calculus in your child's bedroom, please get your child to Oklahoma and get them help from the nearest minister. I don't care if you have to lock them up in the basement against their will. Just make sure you save them from the same fate as I ... COMPLETE EAR DESTRUCTION!

Hilarious post.

 

[Colonel Kernel]

This must be muted.

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

Final sentence of the article:

However, other researchers say the ‘high’ listeners claim to feel may actually be a placebo effect determined by the individual’s desire to feet it.

Gee, ya think?

 

[Matorbogl]

sounds more like iTarding

Nailed it.

 

[Cancer]

Thanks, but I will be sticking with Pink Floyd.

 

[StarBob]

Thanks, but I will be sticking with Pink Floyd.

Definitely. A little weed and Comfortably Numb on loop and you'll transcend to a new level of reality.

On a stupid note, I'm listening to one right now at work and it's most just annoying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76aoAwVIbSk

I'm not sure if it's supposed to be so annoying but there you go. Kids are stupid these days. Why can't we all just have weed like we're supposed to.

Also - http://www.i-dose.us/

equally pointless.

 

[Krynn72]

Dude, I'm so high after listening to that.

 

[Raziaar]

Kids are retarded.

EDIT: Wow that's annoying. I have fancy new headphones to hear how annoying it really is now, too.

 

[Stigmata]

It's an acquired taste, like beer, or sadism.

 

[Viperidae]

Wow. If people are making money making those one second loops, holy shit, I've been missing out on a golden cash cow.

Also, this is casual noise. Try Merzbow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGqzaPzrQG8
****ing casuals

 

[MJ12]

I haven't tried it, but I wouldn't immediately jump to the conclusion that it is completely without merit.
It sounds like another form of meditation or hypnosis; which if done right, can work and can have a very similar feeling to lucid dreaming.

But being like a specific drug on the other hand.

 

[Mogi67]

Tried this a few years ago. It's a bunch of bullshit. If you go on the forums and claim it doesn't work, they'll say you're not doing it right, that you have to breathe a certain way and try "not to think". I'm glad I just torrented it and didn't pay for that shit, because you'll feel more high if you just listen to music.

 

[<RJMC>]

I think this is made up by some people that want to be popular so they invent this new "drug" and tell everyone so they can be now as the cool kid who first saw that cool mew "drug"

 

[Raziaar]

It's just a way for them to brag to their friends that they get high... without actually having the balls to snort line after line of cocaine.

 

[Naph]

It's like giving coffee pills to a gullable teenager and saying it's Ecstasy. :l

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

I saw a similar thing posted on slashdot a while ago. I usually go on there to read the funny comments, and I found this:



Hilarious post.

holy **** lol.

 

[Dekstar]

My eyes just grew wings and started sacheting round the room. HELP!

 

[ktimekiller]

ouch my ears

what pos

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

I think its people who've never experienced real drugs that can get 'high' from this.

I wanted to believe this & get high so I had the placebo effect 'hopefully' going for me.. but no dice!

 

[Danimal]

My friends and I used to iDose years ago, most of the time it didn't even work. The most you'd get would be a different kind of clarity towards things.

I'd rather just smoke weed tbh.

 

[JUL3]

Wait, what?

How does it work?

 

[Danimal]

iirc, it plays a 40 minute long track (That YouTube link is likely a fake iDose, as they generally range from 20 - 80 minutes long). You lay down in a comfortable spot where you know you can't be disturbed, and listen to the track with your eyes closed - apparently by the time you're done, you're high as ****.

I remember they had this iDose that was called The Hand of God, which was supposed to emulate God taking you by the hand and showing you the universe - They sold it for $499.99. :\

 

[Bad^Hat]

I wonder if the dosage becomes more potent when dissolved into increasingly large amounts of water.

Then again the water would probably 'remember' it better than the people who do this shit.

 

[Danimal]

I have no idea what the **** you just said, Bad^Hat.

 

[Eejit]

I do.

 

[Danimal]

Enlighten me?

 

[Colonel Kernel]

Water has the properties to "remember" certain things, such as sound and emotions in it's structure.

It might lead to better results if you put headphones on a glass of water and then drink it?

 

[Bad^Hat]

I have no idea what the **** you just said, Bad^Hat.

I wonder if homeopaths have another term for 'drop in the bucket.'

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

God, not homeopathic medicine. I just finished getting over reading about it after there was an xkcd about it.

God dammit, now I'm pissed off again. Curse you and your hat.