Similar to many people I talked I had never heard of this supposed teen sensation of getting digitally high from music downloaded off the internet so I decided to investigate it a bit for this blog assignment. What in the world? After reading a few articles, watching popular iDosing YouTube videos, and a few YouTube videos of people that were apparently freaking out because of the iDosing, I am still a little confounded. This makes little to no sense to me. The iDosing videos simply reminded me of my iTunes visualizer setting that is sometimes fun to put on in the background. A few of the YouTube videos weren’t even videos, they were just techno songs which would infer that all techno music makes people freak out or feel like they’re on a high.
One popular iDosing YouTube, “Accuface ‘Millennium Bug” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDjOnQddaB4&feature=related) was like looking through a child’s kaleidoscope, however, the longer I watched it, it reminded me of something I heard about the human brain and watching fire. Now this may be complete fiction, but I was once told that the human brain is the most stimulated when watching fire, because it is so unpredictable (and maybe for a few other reasons as well…). Maybe there’s some correlation between the unpredictability of this kind of music matched with the unknown visual stimulants of the videos that entertain the brain enough for people to think they could get some kind of natural high and thus their own ideals influence how they’re affected by the iDosing experience.
I’m going to assume that there’s more to what’s going on then just simply people freaking out due to music and visual effects. If these people are in fact tripping on the videos and music, I’m going to go ahead and say they’re probably tripping on alternative substances simultaneously and the reports about iDosing are just bad, incomplete journalism. Another option would be that the teens they’re referring to are too young to have any idea what it means to be high and are therefore claiming to get high because, well they’re kids and they don’t know any better.
While I don’t think anyone could actually get high just watching/listening to these YouTube videos, I do agree with some reports that claim, iDosing could lead to actual dosing on other narcotics, and maybe that is where the true threat of iDosing lies.
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