I'm pretty new here and was actually assigned to do I-Doser for my psychology class to test if it's a placebo effect. The assignment is to try several of the doses myself, and then to test it on other people without telling them what it's supposed to do and then compare the results. I'm a natural skeptic and hesitate to buy into anything without unbiased knowledge and experience. I have used binaural beats in the past for meditation and concentration with positive effects, but I'm still not sure about all of the claims made on I-Doser just because it's my nature. Also, other than alcohol and prescription Adderall for ADHD, I don't use psychotropic drugs, so I don't really know what to compare these doses to in respect to the actual drugs the doses purport to simulate. I have access to a good majority of the doses, including Hand of God and Gates to Hades, from my professor, who sent me a big .zip of about 150 of the .drg files. But anyway, today I tried French Roast and QuickHappy and had surprising effects!
I didn't do it exactly right; I was sitting at the computer but with my hands over my eyes so I couldn't see anything, but the French Roast had a pretty big effect on me quickly. After a couple minutes I felt myself being more alert and my eyes lost that sleepy feeling I'd had for a couple hours. It's been about 3 hours since I did it, and I can still feel the effects from it; I'm a lot more alert and aware and awake. I would give it a 9/10 for effectiveness, almost all of my sluggishness has gone away.
The QuickHappy one had a similarly fast effect on me. I quickly felt happier and more excited, like I had received really surprising good news or something. For the last half hour or so I've felt elevated. I'll give it an 8/10 because it hasn't been that long since I did it.
Overall I was really surprised about the results from these. I did do the milder ones because I want to work up to the more extreme ones to gauge my experiences, and the experiences of the people I test them on, and also because I don't want to shock myself doing an extreme one and put myself off from doing them, but I was surprised at how effective they really were. I would be really curious to see peer reviewed studies done about these doses, especially compared with the general binaural beats that are out there. I do plan on doing more of these posts documenting mine and others' experiences with the doses, and hopefully I'll be able to sound less wooden and academic during them!
