- About a month ago, a scientist in the United Arab Emirates started making noise about banning something called “binaural beats,” which he referred to as “digital drugs.” These are audio tracks—calling them “music” would be a bit of a stretch—that you can buy online for $16.95 or less. Banning tones that purport to alter your state of mind sounded to me like an over-the-top, reactionary response to something that probably didn’t even work. But what if it did work? What if these tracks really got you high?
Ah, binaural beats. I thought they died a silent dead. Seems they didn't. I must say I didn't try the "drug" variants like you can find on I-Doser, but the standard brainwave altering variants which change your brainwaves to contain more beta, alpha, theta or delta waves. These are emitted when a person is respectively alert (normal waking state), relaxed, almost asleep (starting sleep, light sleep) and deep sleep. (If memory serves well that is) The beta waves did make me more relaxed, but alpha waves didn't work so well. Theta waves were just plain weird. I remember this being a one time experiment since these waves were a pain to listen too. EDIT: I mixed up alpha and beta waves
This comment led me to put on my headphones and listen to Leonard Cohen last night. Great "drug".
So here I am, after say half an hour on some stuff. I feel a bit of dry throat and knocked-out but it might be an effect somewhere between placebo and the loud noise. Overall it hasn't been very convincing (yet!) I could almost not hear that one so I changed to that one. It's like a rave party in your living room :) but no high tonight! Maybe the i-doser stuff is better, I wouldn't know.