If you have not heard of it yet, you probably will soon. There is a hysteria of people warning of kids downloading these digital drugs (sound files) playing them on their mp3 players and headphones, and getting all doped up.
Sounds a little fishy? I think I smell a big Mackerel.
The way it works is binaural sounds. Basically engineered music or tones that switch from ear to ear.
Kids are claiming serious highs or freaking out from it, just like drugs. Even YouTube has videos of this sensation.
Well, Psychology Today reports that in 1839 Heinrich Wilhelm Dove discovered this phenomenon “binaural beats”.
So it is nothing new and has been used in clinical settings to research hearing and sleep cycles, induce various brain waves and treat anxiety.
This is all getting traction from kids on MySpace, Face Book and YouTube that “Dude, they get you totally high!”
From everything I have been able to research on this, there is not really any danger, many some anxiety caused by the tones. But this is not any worse than the 3,000,000 decibel music the kids listen to in their mp3 player already. Honestly, the volume of regular music is probably more dangerous to them.
The one thing I did find when researching this, and that might be a side issue, is when you go looking for this stuff, the websites then advertise gray area drugs, like pseudo legal marijuana and other drug like paraphernalia.
So the beat may not be dangerous, but like always, it is a good idea to monitor what the teens are doing and listening to, and if you see or hear some odd things, have a chat and see what they are up to.
Here are a couple articles with more information, including the “big” news story, which sort of hypes the whole issue.
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