

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.
