When you plug away in your headphone and start jamming to yourfavorite sci - fi call , something far more dangerous is actually bechance , according to Kim Komando of USA Today . She recently bring out an article warning serious-minded parent of the dangers of “ digital drug , ” asserting that medicine download on sure websites could have the same effects on the human mentality as diacetylmorphine or crack . Before you edit your entire iTunes library , however , it ’s probably well to get the fact on exactly what these “ digital drugs ” might be . Komando reports that the druglike effects that these songs create result from the phenomenon of binaural beats :
Some sites supply binaural beat that have innocuous effects . For example , some claim to help you develop extrasensory power like telepathy and psychokinesis . Other site bid therapeutic biaural beats . They avail you relax or meditate . Some allegedly help you overcome addiction or anxiousness . Others purport to assist you lose free weight or carry off gray hair . However , most internet site are more black . They trade audio file ( “ doses ” ) that supposedly mimic the effects of alcohol and marijuana . But it does n’t end there . You ’ll regain doses that purportedly mime the impression of LSD , crack , heroin and other severe drugs . There are also Venus’s curse of a intimate nature . I even found one that supposedly feign heaven and hell .
Unfortunately , her discovery are about as logical as the Pons - Fleischmann inhuman nuclear fusion reaction experiment . biaural musical rhythm , in fact , can not do any of that . Aspiring telekinetics : I ’m sorry to burst your house of cards .
The literal origin of biaural pulse make comfort good sense . Think of a distinctive sound moving ridge — a periodic sin wave with a sure amplitude , frequency , and stage . When you learn a sodding whole step , what you ’re hearing is a sound wave of a single frequence . When you hear two pure spirit of the same frequency , played in phase , you will effectively be hearing that same sound wave with its unmarried frequency — but double as loud , or with twice the bountifulness . If you hear two pure tone that each have a different frequency , things get a little crazier ; you will end up also listen beats , or pulses , at the difference frequency between the two tone . biaural beats are the beats that result when each of your ears is hearing a pure tone of a slightly dissimilar frequency . This run to find sometimes when you ’re wearing headphones . There ’s a part of your brain that equate the remark from each of your ears and process them — this is the same part of your psyche that defecate it potential for you to detect where exactly an annoying car alarm system is coming from , or to single out your friend ’s voice in a gang . As advanced as this sounds , brains from human being to computed axial tomography to toad frog are hardwired to do this , and sound processing has no core on any higher - level functions like emotion or reason . Binaural beats are the automatic , simple , mathematical result of the combining of these two different - frequency tones in your foreland . And they might sound a little ill-scented , but they sure enough wo n’t be enough to have you climb the walls or watching the color on your carpet swimming like fish . So , parents , never fear : If your kids want acid trip , they ’ll have to get ’em the sure-enough - fashioned path . Digital drug CD image fromGeomagnetic.tv . Sine wave images fromPlanet of Tunes . Web delivers Modern worry for parent : Digital drugs[USA Today ]
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