I-Dosing: How teenagers are getting 'digitally high' from music they download from internet

The Daily Mail ^ | July 20, 2010 | Daniel Bates

[Arec Barrwin]

I-Dosing: How teenagers are getting 'digitally high' from music they download from internet

By Daniel Bates Last updated at 5:57 PM on 20th July 2010

They put on their headphones, drape a hood over their head and drift off into the world of ‘digital highs’.

Videos posted on YouTube show a young girl freaking out and leaping up in fear, a teenager shaking violently and a young boy in extreme distress.

This is the world of ‘i-Dosing’, the new craze sweeping the internet in which teenagers used so-called ‘digital drugs’ to change their brains in the same way as real-life narcotics.

[Arec Barrwin]

This is incredibly ridiculous

[library user]

Here we go.

[Diogenesis]

Didn’t the ruling class say this about Beatles music
in the mid 60s. And their hair!!!!!!

[library user]

Daily Mail =

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Does this mean that the cops get to send in SWAT in the middle of the night and shoot your dog if a confidential informant tells them somebody in the house is dealing Class IV air horns?

[mnehring]

They put on their headphones, drape a hood over their head and drift off into the world of ‘digital highs’.

Heck, that's how I work best. My co-workers laugh that I get in a zone. Headphones in, the only lights in my office are my computer monitors, music blasting, and projects get done quickly.

[bigbob]

A can of Papst followed by “Whole Lotta Love” on a set of Bose Pro-4AAs used to produce the same effect.

[La Lydia]

I liked the one who was freaking out to Neil Diamond.

[Chode]

[Drew68]

Not everyone is taking i-Dosing seriously...

Why would they? This is without a doubt the dumbest thing I've ever heard of.

some YouTube videos show young adults ‘i-Dosing’ on Neil Diamond and mocking the whole phenomenon.

Phenomenon? Get real. This is absolutely ridiculous and deserves to be mocked.

But there has been such alarm in the U.S. that the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs has issued a warning to children not to do it.

Oh brother... Insert "Faceplant" jpg here. Thanks Oklahoma for dignifying this nonsense with your "alarm". Morons...

[mylife]

You gotta be high if you think this will work.

[hc87]

Back in my day, we called this “Pink Floyd”.

[gthog61]

I was going to say this sounds like a South Park episode but they already did it with the “Cheesing” episode from a few years back.

I think cat pee might make more sense.

[mylife]

And Tangerine Dream

[JerseyHighlander]

[mylife]

I missed that south park.

BTW nothing is meaner than cat ****

[hc87]

Amen.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Previous generations called this “meditation”

[Larry Lucido]

Probably.

How do you test for digital residue?

[LostInBayport]

This is the most moronic manufactured crisis since “man-caused global warming”. Was “i-dosing” discovered by a group of researchers at East Anglia University?

Watch for the U.S. Congress to levy hefty taxes on all downloaded music in order to combat this horrific problem...”for the children”, of course.

[library user]

It is kinda trippy.

[KarlInOhio]

'digitally high' from music they download from internet

Remember, only listen to analog vinyl you've bought from a legitimate record store. If you have to flip it in the middle, Dark Side of the Moon looses all of its addictive qualities.

[mylife]

I saw both bands a few times.
You would think TD would be really boring live, but they put on a great show.
Nothing like PF but still a very nice show.

I dont know why, but the theaters they played in always smelled funny, like burning hay or something.

Hmmmm...

[ladyvet]

... show a young girl freaking out and leaping up in fear, a teenager shaking violently and a young boy in extreme distress...

Maybe not so crazy. Happens to me every time the b@stard in the Oval Office starts talking.

[dynachrome]

“I missed that south park”

it was hilarious. After cheesing, Stan’s dad would enter the universe of “Heavy Metal” movie. he ends up fighting Kenny for the favors of a well endowed cartoon lady. Cartman rescued cats from roundups. Should be in the SP archives.

[Drew68]

Back in my day, we called this “Pink Floyd”.

Except we were already high when we listened to Floyd under the headphones.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Does it count as iDosing if I did it with an LP or cassette?

[sbMKE]

Have Steve Jobs and Apple sued for trademark infringement yet?

That’s the only thing that could make this fake fad any more ridiculous.

[Nervous Tick]

[Mere Survival]

Man I was I-dosing in the 1980’s. Now my left ear is bad.

“Did you like the key lime pie, dear?”

“What was that honey?”

“The key lime pie!”

“Oh, the time. 8 o’clock.”

“No, not the time! The pie. THE PIE! . . . And is it that late? What time did you say?”

“Yah, the pie was a little sour.”

[nmh]

Kids are as ridiculous as their parents.

[SoothingDave]

Harder to sync up to the Wizard of Oz that way, too.

[nmh]

In old fashioned language, it’s called blowing out your ear drums. Soon they’ll be deaf and that will take care of the problem.

[nmh]

In old fashioned language, it’s called blowing out your ear drums. Soon they’ll be deaf and that will take care of the problem.

[Born to Conserve]

One of these days I’m going to cut you into little pieces.

[Mr_Moonlight]

‘i-Dosing’

All I can say is: HUH ???

[mylife]

Tangerine Dream~ Sorcceror

[Mr_Moonlight]

And Tangerine Dream

Not to mention a good dose of YES .. Close To The Edge preferably :)

[Nik Naym]

[Ticonderoga34]

Videos posted on YouTube show a young girl freaking out and leaping up in fear, a teenager shaking violently and a young boy in extreme distress.

Sounds to me like some kids are making a joke on YouTube. And some adults are stupid enough to believe them.

[jsh3180]

That name Arec Barrwin reminds me of this.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftgAG3Vnif8

[UCANSEE2]

MILO: "What will it take to make you scream, Joseph? "

JOE: "Play some Rap Music."

[UCANSEE2]

I think the popularity of this has more to do with the girls wriggling around uncontrollably on YOUTUBE, than anything else.

[mylife]

Lots of head music back in THE DAY

[Outlaw Woman]

YES .. Close To The Edge...

Wow...now there is a blast from the past..Wow. I saw them in concert in about 73. I'm from the era when headphones came out! Nothing better than putting them on, listening to: Moody Blues, JD Blackfoot, Pink Floyd, Lynard Skynard, Neil Young....well you get the idea. *sigh* there was some truly good music produced then....even if the artists were loaded. lol

[ichabod1]

We don’t burn old glory down on main street
And white lightnin’s still t he biggest thrill of all.

[ichabod1]

Careful with that axe, Eugene.

[bleach]

“Careful With That Axe Eugene” gave me the chills the first time I heard it through a pair of Koss Pro4A’s and the proper lighting..

[ichabod1]

Father yes son I want to kill you
Mother yes son I want to AAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!

[UCANSEE2]

"Please, NO SLIM WHITMAN !"