I went to the VICE office for this one, a much busier environment than my little bedroom, to see if setting played a role in how effective these beats were. Since I wasn't satisfied with Amanita, I decided to give Overdose a shot. It sounded like a Caribou track with unexplainable vibrations in the background, which just ended up messing with my anxiety and making me feel like a 15-pound weight was sitting on my chest. Unfortunately, as much as I was ready to trip, I didn't. Nobody wants to trip on shrooms alone, so I had my friend come over and listen to Amanita with me. My brain started to feel like mush after three doses, so I took a break before I moved on to what I thought would be the most fun part: the recreational dose. Really focusing on these tracks and trying to "feel" them is a lot more work than you would think. That was pretty unusual, since I had eight hours of sleep the night before, I never nap, and this was at 3 PM. To make a long story short, I experienced a few short lucid dreams-none of which I can remember in detail-and passed out well before the session was over. An occasional intrusion into the static would pop up here and there-a soft dinging noise or whistle. Sleeping Angel was mostly white noise, static that changed its pitch gradually until it sounded like it was going in slow motion. I sprawled out on my bed for this one because I felt it was appropriate to be in my natural sleeping habitat. Sleeping Angel was a good way to bring me down. It wasn't nearly as intense as the Ambie, though. Listening to Bloodthistle made me feel like I was running after Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games-powerful, in control, a little evil. As if they were in the distance, I could hear thunder, bells, and running water. Like the Ambie track, there were quite a few hums and vibrations-but it was never calming. I went with the Bloodthistle dose because it had a cool-sounding name-when I looked it up online, it turns out Bloodthistle is an herb in World of Warcraft that is supposed to increase "spell powers." OK, that's pretty cool, I guess. These fictional doses are supposed to synchronize your brainwaves to simulate doses from your favorite movies, books, and games. My brain was empty and five minutes later, I still felt completely sedated. I started waving my arms around to prove to myself that these sensations were happening because I'd been sitting in the same position for 15 minutes with my eyes closed. By the end of the session my entire body was numbed and tingling. My head started feeling heavy and gradually got heavier and heavier. Then I realized, hey this stuff is sort of the real deal. They felt a little heavy, but I told myself it was psychological, a placebo. I didn't really feel anything for the first couple minutes, and I opened my eyes around four minutes into the session. It later flowed into a soft and calming mystical tune, the soundtrack of a fairytale.
The track began with a steady, mechanical hum that occasionally got interrupted by some kind of static. I was trying to force myself into a Zen state and let the beats take over my mind.
I sat on a chair in my bedroom and put my ear buds in, started the track, and closed my eyes. Now, I came into this thinking that these beats were all just a big pile of stupid, but I was determined to give it a shot. I went with Ambie, which is supposed to simulate the effect of Ambien. My options in the pack of prescription doses were Xanax, Ambie, Valim, and Klono. Each contained four 15-minute-long audio tracks, and I tried out the most interesting sounding ones. So I got the most advanced versions of the "recreational," "prescription," "fictional," "sacred," and "celestial" dose packs. I wanted to trip out and feel closer to the big man upstairs. I didn't want anything that produced a calming sensation, since I could get that from a meditative flute piece on YouTube accompanied by a still shot of a waterfall. There were a lot of different doses available-sexual doses, designer doses, sport doses, game enhancers, pure doses, and so on-so I had to be somewhat selective. According to their website, they have "several teams of underground music and tonal experts, programmers, testers, researchers, and admins," and "each audio track contains advanced binaural beats that will synchronize your brainwaves." Whoa. I decided I should give this stuff a try, so I downloaded five different MP3 "dose packs" from I-Doser, a supplier of the futuristic, mind-melding drugs who take themselves quite seriously.
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