As someone who has logged a lot of time meditating, I can state pretty confidently there is something more than pure placebo going on here. Many years ago (7is

As someone who has logged a lot of time meditating, I can state pretty confidently there is something more than pure placebo going on here. Many years ago (7ish) I tried using a program that generated these sounds/music with different touted effects like 'sleepy time' or 'morning coffee' .. whatever. Didn't make as grand of statements as maybe are being made now, but the idea was the same. Observably, your brain pulses EM waves at certain frequency ranges depending on your state of mind, pretty much the calmer your mind, the slower your waves. Now, if you've meditated with any type of success, you will recognize that semi-deep meditation is definitely similar in some ways to being on drugs.. the way marijuana treats some people, and I think even closer to how opiates treat people; a very relaxed, accepting feeling that is distinct from normal beta-wave activity. Disclaimer, I have not read the wired article nor listened to any of these 'digital drug' mp3s; but.. I am pretty confident our brains can be strongly encouraged to enter the different brain-wave states based off the pulsations of sound at the intended interval. That is, by overloading our senses into a pulsation at a certain frequency, our brains have inertia to pulsate at that frequency, thus putting our selves in the different states of mind associated with the different brain states. My guess is that is what is happening with these 'digital drugs' and the ones that are supposedly 'the best' will have overwhelming rhythms matching probably alpha/delta wave frequency.