Ten minutes to a trance: exploring I-Dosing and the binaural beat phenomenon
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In 0.19 seconds, the Google search engine retrieves over 9,600,000 results concerning I-Dosing, the newest Internet fad that is taking the world’s youth by storm. The next time you hear someone talking about drugs, you might get confused when you hear them talking about crazy beats and soundproof headphones. However, an increasing number of people are listening to sound files that are specifically designed to alter an individual’s state of consciousness and induce a ‘high’ that is claimed to mimic the psycho-physiological effects felt after the administration of an actual psychoactive drug; this “drug trip” is called I-dosing. To feel optimal effects, the user is advised to wear stereo headphones, lie down in a comfortable position in
a dark room, close his or her eyes, and drift off into the world of digital- drugs1. As ludicrous as I-Dosing may seem, the scientific foundation for digital-drugs dates back to as early as the mid nineteenth century.