Yes, yes, yes. I know, I know. It's been FAR too long since I've written one of these here blogs. Blame it on the clusterfuck that is my life at all points in time. That being said, I actually have a little time today to sit down and write between loads of laundry and not really wanting to write any articles for Bright Hub. No, don't get me wrong - I still love my job. I'm just a little lazy when it comes to the idea of taking 50 screen shots, cropping, resizing, renaming, and uploading them back into the internet. You know how it goes. REGARDLESS. Oh SNAP son, do you know what day of the week it is? It's Wednesday, isn't it. Why yes, yes it is! Isn't it time for a long overdue...

 

So, for today's NSFWednesday, we're going to imagine a scenario. In the future, drugs will be readily available to pump directly into your head, transferred via electrodes or something. But for now, we'll just have to settle for the newest form of drug - Sound.

Yes, sound. Thanks to several online companies, especially one i-Doser, you can use the power of sound to get your high. the i-Doser program plays sounds (called doses) that are embedded in white noise, and these can manipulate the brain into thinking and perceiving things certain ways. Some of them sound pretty nice, there's a few to help boost confidence, some to help you meditate and put you at peace with your surroundings. Good things.

Some are helpful. Some boast that they are able to help relieve the pain of a migraine, some claim to help you release stress, anger, and sadness much easier. Some claim to suppress hunger and help you raise your metabolism naturally - no nasty pills or surgeries. All with the power of noise.

Some are a little weirder. Alcohol makes you feel drunk if you listen to it long enough. French roast coffee offers a pick-me-up in 10 minutes in the middle of the day. Marijuana offers the ability to get high at will without breaking the law.

And then of course, there are the others. Heroin, cocaine, crystal meth, LSD... All offering the signature feel of the drugs without any chemical side effects. These drugs are pumped from headphones directly into your ears, where the frequencies go to work altering your brainwaves, creating an eerily similar effect to shooting up heroin or snorting cocaine.

Think that's it? Nope. There are more. With the ability to create new designer drugs that would be hard or dangerous to produce in real life, people have created a few that have been nothing like the world has seen. Experience highs that you could never achieve... And yet...

The company openly admits that they'd created failures. In an attempt to make a drug that raised the heartbeat and harmlessly triggered the fight or flight mechanic for physical training, the i-Doser had invented what they now not-so-affectionately refer to as "Gates of Hades" -- People receptive to "dosing" as it is called have violent hallucinations as well as increased body temperature, racing heart rates, violent mood swings. A few have reported hurting themselves when thrashing around on beds, couches, and the floor.

Here's a video of three guys trying the famed "Gates of Hades"