A handful of the more esoteric ones sounded vaguely intriguing, with titles like Chakra, Nirvana, Hangover Cure, Victory, Lucid Dream and Orgasm. You've got your prescription drugs like Demerol, Oxy, Vico. You've got your simulation narcotics, with names like Acid, Heroin, Crack, Crystal Meth and GHB (what, so you can virtually date rape yourself?). There was actually a hell of a lot to pick from. Then came the time to choose my i-Dose for the night. Another page also informed me that "these doses are sold “AS-IS" - their emphasis - so no refunds if my dose turned out to be schwag. I settled for, mainly because I was feeling lazy and it was the first one to pop up in my Google search.Ī quick glance through the FAQ page gave me all I needed to know about downloading my, errr, drugs. There are a number of websites where you can go to buy i-Doses. Of course, real scientists - being the party poopers they are - dismiss the entire idea as utter bunk. Websites like, which sells i-Doses, claim that these "scientifically designed" sounds can synchronize your brainwaves to naturally simulate a drug high, inducing such altered states as euphoria, sedation, hallucination and, like, getting totally shit-faced hammered (we're guessing here). It's actually a technology that some therapists have been using for more than 100 years to treat anxiety and research sleep cycles.
So here's the gist: an i-Dose is an MP3 of two-toned sounds, which the i-Dose industry (yes, there is such a thing) calls "binaural beats." Basically, it's when a person hears two different sound waves in both ears at the same time. And being the responsible journalistic establishment that the Xpress is, they assigned me - the newbie - to be their experimental guinea pig, to forgo a Friday night in the interest of straightening out internet fact from internet fiction.Īnd, well, let's just say you owe me one, Asheville. And who knows? Maybe there really is some truth to the idea that you can get royally crunked on the sounds from your earbuds. But as any loyal reader of the Mountain Xpress knows, we're hardly ones to shy away from being ridiculous. Sure, the whole thing sounds completely ridiculous. Welcome to the reefer madness of the iPod age. (Never mind the fact that more people seem to be talking about i-Dosing than actually doing it.) And, of course, concerned parents and law enforcement are already demonizing it as the new gateway drug into, well, real drugs. Videos of headphone-wearing kids supposedly under the influence of an i-Dose - giggling wildly, falling off of couches, breaking down into sobs - have become a hit on YouTube.
They call it i-Dosing: a "digital drug" that people claim gets you high solely off the sounds on an MP3. It'd be hard not to, with the media in such a tizzy over it.
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