CBC - I-dosing hits mind, not body: researchers

Scientists say the notion of kids getting high by listening to MP3 files on their computers is more virtual than real. The phenomenon of so-called digital drugs — or i-dosing — has been spreading like wildfire around the internet in recent weeks. Apparently, a set of headphones and a trippy digitally crafted song is all you need to achieve a state of imaginary ecstasy…

The claim is that the sounds serve to alter one's brain waves and, by extension, a person's mental state. But McGill neuroscience professor Robert Zatorre says that's not so and it really doesn't do anything to the brain.