Binaural Beats lead to drug use. WTF???

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Permalink Reply by James Hazlerig on July 15, 2010 at 3:43pm

I have a lot of trouble believing this coverage isn't coming from The Onion, but I heard a story about this on NPR yesterday. The NPR coverage was aimed at debunking the idea that binaural beats actually affect brain wave activity:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128519787

The funny thing is how scared parents are. These children are not ingesting potentially lethal substances or having to make drug deals with potentially dangerous people. They're doing what we've known was possible for years, whether we used binaural beats or suggestion. But people are scared of the very possibility that their kids might experience something out of the ordinary . . . And of course, if these idoses actually produce the effects of drugs, why on earth would that lead to actual drug use? Seems to me it would discourage it.

Finally, for those of you who know anything about the drug culture, freeze-frame the video at 2 minutes and 10 seconds, and then look at the time listed on the electronic device. An accident, or a clever message from someone who thinks the whole story is bunk?

James

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Permalink Reply by Licentious Maladay on July 15, 2010 at 4:31pm

Wow, James!

You've got eagle eyes. I see what you mean. It's not the binaural, it's what you're smoking while you listen -lol

Lic

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Permalink Reply by James Hazlerig on July 15, 2010 at 4:51pm

Well, I'd hoped to be the first to point that out on YouTube, but a bunch of frakkin stoners beat me to it. So much for pot making you stupid . . .

Y'know, I've made recordings simulating drug experiences for my friends who are into that. I wonder if I should be offering free samples on the 'net in hopes of dealing the next cyberdrug.

Licentious Maladay said:

Wow, James!
You've got eagle eyes. I see what you mean. It's not the binaural, it's what you're smoking while you listen -lol
Lic

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Permalink Reply by Michael Ellner on July 15, 2010 at 5:28pm

James, Lic. Craig,

@ Craig -- Thanks for posting -- Clearly warrants a WTF!



@ James-- Good catch on the Four Twenty -


Lic,

Did you consider the possibility that the adult's reactions were trance behaviors?

Hey Guys,

Looking at their reactions through a hypnotist's lens - we can see the trance-logic operating in their "anti-drug-trance" Does any one have a better explanation why none of the players in this video could see the obvious?


I-doping offers a cheap, safe and effective way to produce a natural high that could be used to make drug use unnecessary...

Of course, the old "Harvard Crew's" "Set and Setting" will be the ultimate influence on the type of experience the I-doper experiences...

Michael E,
420 and out-

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Permalink Reply by Richard Nongard - NLPBoard.com on July 15, 2010 at 5:28pm

Only in Oklahoma....

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Permalink Reply by James Hazlerig on July 15, 2010 at 6:12pm

Hey, Richard,

Don't you use binaural beats in your sessions? You drug pusher, you.

I think I'll go get stoned with my light and sound machine now.

James

Richard Nongard - NLPBoard.com said:

Only in Oklahoma....

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Permalink Reply by Hugh Cole on July 16, 2010 at 3:29am

Does this make Kelly Howell the new Timothy Leary? Will this stimulate a black market of OTC CDs? Will Mark Woodward (OBNDD spokesperson) botox his brow furrows? Tune in for the next exciting episode of WTF!

Hugh Cole
Tuned in, turned on .... listening only to health alpha wave stuff from a government regulated and certified Binural Beat Generator. .... Thank God for President Obama's Binaural Beat Czar!

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Permalink Reply by James Malone on July 16, 2010 at 3:43am

We also have the "authorities" in Oklahoma to thank for the book above that came out about 40 years ago. Maybe some ambitious kids in Tulsa can start a group called the Binaural Beatles!

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Permalink Reply by James Hazlerig on July 16, 2010 at 7:24am

Binaural Beatles! I love it.

Reminds me of this induction:

http://www.hypnothoughts.com/video/716892:Video:44031

James

James Malone said:

We also have the "authorities" in Oklahoma to thank for the book above that came out about 40 years ago. Maybe some ambitious kids in Tulsa can start a group called the Binaural Beatles!

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Permalink Reply by Kyle Jackson on July 16, 2010 at 11:01am

I've been seeing this story pop up everywhere the past few days. It's made it all the way around the world.

At least some of those reporting on it have a grasp on reality. The fear-mongering and sensationalization (is that a word? Spell-check doesn't think so.) of this stuff is mind-boggling.

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Permalink Reply by Melissa J. Roth on July 16, 2010 at 11:11am

Can I get one of those recordings???

James Hazlerig said:

Well, I'd hoped to be the first to point that out on YouTube, but a bunch of frakkin stoners beat me to it. So much for pot making you stupid . . .

Y'know, I've made recordings simulating drug experiences for my friends who are into that. I wonder if I should be offering free samples on the 'net in hopes of dealing the next cyberdrug.

Licentious Maladay said:

Wow, James!
You've got eagle eyes. I see what you mean. It's not the binaural, it's what you're smoking while you listen -lol
Lic

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Permalink Reply by Melissa J. Roth on July 16, 2010 at 11:16am

WTF. Why didn't I think of this? Cheaper, legal, easily accessible. I'm jealous.

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