Aural drugs?

This past summer I came across a thread on a music forum that was titled “i-Doser – get high by listening to music!” Of course, my interest was piqued solely because of the ridiculousness of the concept.

I went on to find out that i-Doser is a program that uses binaural brainwave doses that when users listens to these doses they receive the same effect as taking drugs. The program has it all: heroin, cocaine, marijuana, opium, peyote, etc. The program can be downloaded for free but you have to pay for each dose

Each dose is usually about a half hour of drone noises. The doses are supposed to be listened to while laying down in a room with the lights off and through headphones. The headphones are needed because the sound alternates between each ear causing a sort of hypnotic drone noise.

I decided I should probably try one just to see what happened, so I chose the opium one and put my headphones on.

This is what it said opium would do:

“THE JOY PLANT! Opium is a naturally occurring analgesic harvested as a latex from ripe Papaver somniferum (opium poppy) pods. It has a long history of use by humans as an oral and smoked psychoactive. Opium can cause euphoria, followed by a sense of well-being and a calm drowsiness or sedation. Breathing slows, time reverses or stops… the world is a haze. While we have not been able to fully emulate the effects of opium, we have come pretty close. A favourite dose of the I-Doser technicians, this could very well be your favourite also!”

The dose starts off with an annoyingly loud beeping noise alternating between the earphones but eventually slowed down to a drone noise. During the dose I did experience a relaxing feeling but I’m pretty sure that was just from laying down with my eyes closed for half an hour. Also I thought I started to hear weird voices and music in the dose but I think that was just my mind imagining it from listening to the same droning noise for a half hour.

Overall, I didn’t really feel the way they told me I would feel. Honestly, I didn’t really expect to. I mean the whole thing seemed like a scam from the beginning especially since you have to pay every time you want to listen to a dose.

I did some research and found out from this wikipedia article that the only thing binaural waves have been proven to do, in this sense, is help people dream lucidly.

Maybe it’s because I was skeptical, though, because they say this will only work if you want it to.

Here’s some guys reaction to a Nitrous dose: