(Note, I wrote this whole thing in a word processor, and I intend to post it in places other than here, so the intro part is probably a bunch of stuff you already know. Scroll down to the huge paragraph if you just want to read the experience)
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A few days ago, my friend gave me a link to a YouTube video that had the first 10 minutes of a sound file called Gate of Hades. We'll get to what that is later, but first I'll tell you about the company that made it.
The company's name is I-Doser (s=z sound). It's composed of a few highly trained scientists who study binaural beats.
"Binaural beats, or binaural tones, are auditory processing artifacts, or apparent sounds, the perception of which arises in the brain for specific physical stimuli. This effect was discovered in 1839 by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove.
The brain produces a phenomenon resulting in low-frequency pulsations in the loudness and sound localization of a perceived sound when two tones at slightly different frequencies are presented separately, one to each of a subject's ears, using stereo headphones. A beating tone will be perceived, as if the two tones mixed naturally, out of the brain. The frequency of the tones must be below about 1,000 to 1,500 hertz for the beating to be heard. The difference between the two frequencies must be small (below about 30 Hz) for the effect to occur; otherwise, the two tones will be heard separately and no beat will be perceived."
(Copied from Wikipedia's page on binaural beats.)
So basically, you put on a pair of stereo headphones, and different frequencies are played in different ears that do stuff to your brain.
After looking at that video of Gate of Hades, I wanted to learn more about I-Doser.
(Well, it wasn't really a video. Just sound with a picture in the background)
They make a whole bunch of these 30 minute long sound files that are supposed to use binaural beats to make your brain experience effects similar to what specific drugs do. These are said to be harmless, legal, and fun. They are best experienced laying down (relaxed), eyes closed, and in a dark room with no background noise or other distraction.
The first one I tried was "LSD". It didn't really work on me though. After I was done, I looked at the wall of my room and my ceiling had a purple tint to it. I figured this had nothing to do with the sound I heard, but rather just the fact that my window was covered in a green blanket, and that there are many colors over my walls
(my walls are covered in colored blankets), and my eyes could have been messed up because of being in such a dark and colored room for 30 minutes.
I pretty much didn't try anything after that. I needed it to be darker (at least I thought so). Night of the next day, I've read all about the stuff that company has, I looked over my choices, and based on reports people gave, I was either gonna do Crystal Meth, or Black Sunshine. However, what I ended up doing wasn't even a drug.
I came across this from reaction videos on YouTube I saw in the related videos to Gate of Hades. It was one of their most talked about sounds, called "Hand of God".
This is supposed to make you feel like one would after having some sort of a religious experience (hence, the name).
An interesting fact: Gate of Hades = GOH; Hand of God = HOG. Notice something?
I'm going to do the best I can to explain what happened.
It starts out at a considerably lower frequency than some of their drugs. This is because it needs to slowly get higher and higher. What it does it plays this low frequency for a long time to relax you and get you to not really expect something to happen, and then suddenly, you hear the volume increase a little and the pitch slowly gets higher. When this happened to me, my whole body began to feel just as it does when I've been really startled. My chest area, legs, and arms all got alternatingly hot and cold, and my heart rate was higher than it's ever been. Ever. I eventually got slightly relaxed from that, and after the whole thing, the pitch remained high at that point it hit when it went up the first time (not high, but higher than it started. It still had a long way to go). It did this one or two more times times. The third time, the way the volume and frequency changed was slightly different from what was happening before, but I couldn't tell what it was. My eyes were closed the whole time I was listening to this sound, but after this, it was like the bottom right and bottom left of what I was seeing got all big and round. Very hard to describe. Now, I kept seeing mentally where I was. I was floating up in they sky, and all I could "see" was blue sky and clouds (perhaps this was supposed to be Heaven, even though Heaven is supposedly just a new Earth). I kept feeling things differently, like I would picture a small sized human compared to how long I felt I was laying down on that bed, and my legs got shorter, and my whole body was gone. All that was left was me thinking. I wasn't even anywhere anymore. I was now floating in an area where there was just white everything everywhere. There was nothing. It was like an empty dimension. After this point, I began randomly seeing myself in different areas, although nothing like anything you'd picture. There was the sky area, the white dimension, and several other things I can't even remember. Random cycles of this stuff for what I guess was about 10 minutes (I tried thinking of how long the track had been playing, but I couldn't even guess. My sense of time was all messed up, probably because I was only focusing on what was happening), and it slowly stopped. I forgot to mention: the whole time, my entire body was twitching like mad. Started out with my legs (thighs) twitching in and out, and then my whole body was doing it after a while. In addition to this, my body was getting hot. When I was done with the whole thing, I was sweating, and numb.
Most intense thing that's ever happened to me.
Hand of God
Hand of God is amazing. The thing that amazed me most was the feeling of weightlessness / flying / floating in space, which was insanely realistic. Especially since I'm not very susceptible to many doses, but this one broke right through that barrier and wow it was cool. I did twitch, but my body normally does that if I lay still for too long so I would say only the sweating and numbness were due to the dose. And the numbness kind of equals the weightlessness, since your body no longer feels the floor/bed. Just, wow. I haven't been able to replicate that feeling since.
Also, why did you say it was pronounced "dozer"? I think that's a public mistake, some people actually think it is "I-Dozer". I think in reality it's pronounced with an "s" as it's spelled, since it comes from the word "dose". Moderator, correct me if I'm wrong?
Also, why did you say it was pronounced "dozer"? I think that's a public mistake, some people actually think it is "I-Dozer". I think in reality it's pronounced with an "s" as it's spelled, since it comes from the word "dose". Moderator, correct me if I'm wrong?
Well, I think it's a z sound. I can't be sure though. The way the English language works, there's no way to know. In languages like Spanish, one letter only makes one sound. Too bad we can't work like that..floydboy wrote: Also, why did you say it was pronounced "dozer"? I think that's a public mistake, some people actually think it is "I-Dozer". I think in reality it's pronounced with an "s" as it's spelled, since it comes from the word "dose". Moderator, correct me if I'm wrong?
Help us, Mods!
