What is i-dosing?
Posted Jul 26, 2010 06:15:17 AM.
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Scientists say the notion of kids getting high by listening to M-P-3’s on their computers is more virtual than real.
The phenomenon of so-called digital drugs — or i-dosing — has been spreading like wildfire around the Internet in recent weeks.
Apparently a set of headphones and a trippy digitally crafted song is all you need to achieve a state of imaginary ecstasy.
Two-tone technology is created by playing a different tone in each ear to create the auditory illusion of a beat.
The claim is that the sounds serve to alter one’s brain waves and, by extension, a person’s mental state.
But McGill neuroscience professor Robert Zatorre says that’s not so and it really doesn’t do anything to the brain.
It’s unclear just how widespread the phenomenon is, but video file-sharing site YouTube is absolutely teeming with videos of teens trying i-doses.
Some swear by its effects _ while countless others mock the so-called users of digital drugs as naive.
