Digital Drugs, Make you high?

[Seika]

Apparently this is the latest destructive force to be unleashed against the precious clean minds of children.

Report: Teens Using Digital Drugs to Get High (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/digital-drugs/)


Now go listen to the sample, and you be the judge. (Use headphones, listen to it at least 2 minutes to get the full effect, trust me) ;)

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en1asB1haQM

Spoiler, click if you're like that.

Actually a friend tricked me into listening to one of those MP3's, since I like to listen to something when I'm having trouble falling asleep. I quickly punched him for being an a-hole. I admit it, it did get me the first time. :o

It's a joke. Come on, you really believed that? ;)

[Vigil80]

Well, this seems like as appropriate a place as any.

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[Hawkzombie]

You trying to break my headphones? :p

[Savok]

So getting high is like being really annoyed? I never knew.

I know some people got a natural high from listening to Jimi Hendrix (no really), mostly those who can "see" sound/music.

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I'll stick with Jimi I think.

[iHap]

That filled me full of rage. I want to hurt your face now.

[Sandman]

Reading thread comments before proceeding with actions suggested by the first post FTW.

[hunterx280]

You know, all I could think about when reading the title was Snow Crash. Why would you want to listen to something that someone is pushing online? Seems like you're asking to get infected.

[Krispy]

You know, all I could think about when reading the title was Snow Crash. Why would you want to listen to something that someone is pushing online? Seems like you're asking to get infected.

Hah. My first thoughts too.

[Bone]

I know some people got a natural high from listening to Jimi Hendrix (no really), mostly those who can "see" sound/music.

I'll stick with Jimi I think.Interesting that you picked that song. That atonal-sounding riff that begins Purple Haze uses what's known as a tritone interval to jar the listener. The use of a tritone was rejected for a time in pre-classical music and was known as "diabolus in musica" or the Devil in music. Later the interval was integrated into music theory but often specifically to achieve an evil or oppressive sound. So there is something to the idea that music can affect the psyche of its audience.

[Spectre-7]

Mighty interesting, Bone. Thanks for sharing.

As for the whole digital drugs thing, I've messed around with some of the binaural packages and noticed fuck-all as far as effects are concerned. The linked one is particularly shrill, so I don't imagine it doing anything but making me tighten my jaw.

[Savok]

Interesting that you picked that song. That atonal-sounding riff that begins Purple Haze uses what's known as a tritone interval to jar the listener. The use of a tritone was rejected for a time in pre-classical music and was known as "diabolus in musica" or the Devil in music. Later the interval was integrated into music theory but often specifically to achieve an evil or oppressive sound. So there is something to the idea that music can affect the psyche of its audience.
Years of prog rock has left me almost craving the effect, so who knows.

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[J Arcane]

I didn't click it, because I already knew this was bullshit the last time it came around like, years ago.

I was all ready instead to laugh at the news media for picking up such an obvious bullshit story.