Legally get high off sound frequencies

[Keaton]

Of course, it could cause psychotropic hallucinations, but they wouldn't be fatal...

You can't literally be scared to death.  That's the stuff of movies, not real life.

You can go catatonic, however.

[darkphantomime]

That's extremely rare though.

[Fishalicious]

Being that I suffer from chronic panic attacks, I can tell you that, no, you can't be "scared to death."

However, it can feel like you're going to die-it feels a bit like having a heart attack. Your chest and throat tighten and there's a piercing pain for a while (sometimes upward of an hour) and then it dies down.

[Carpet Merchant]

It could actually work now that I think about it. Like DW said, certain sounds can trigger epinephrine release (the hormone that creates adrenaline) so all that would have to be done is release the endorphins that cause euphoria.
Of course, anything can trigger that, even chocolate, just not very much. The mind's a complicated thing, and we still only use about 10% of it.
 

[Zelda Veteran]

Wow.
I wish I knew all them fancy werdz ya b usin.
But I can see what you mean.
Its true we only use 10%.
Some people say that if were to use 100% of it, anything could be possible.
ANYTHING.
Isn't that crazy?

[darkphantomime]

It's NOT true that we 'use' only 10%. If we 'used' only ten percent then we wouldn't have a need for the other 90% and someone could survive a bullet to the head, which is DEFINITELY not the case. The Brain has a lot more with it than conscious thought. Look at the map of the brain, each section of the brain takes over certain functions like movement and senses, as well as thought and memory.

[Carpet Merchant]

My point is that even though we study it as much as we do, the brain's still hard to predict and has a lot more potential than we know. So, who's to say what is or isn't possible in the psyche?

Nothing is a total load! Not if you can imagine it! That's what being a magical elf (er...scientist.) is all about.

[Darth Wyndisis]

Isn't that whole "we use only 10% of our brain" thing just some idea that someone came up with to make people think they could have psychic powers if they were able to use the whole 100%?

One thing I thought would be a cool experiment is to have some sort of contest between two groups of people (like playing a sport) where one group listens to aggressive, fast paced music an hour or so beforehand and the other group listens to slower paced music.  It would be cool to see the results of that.

[DW]

What if one side was just full of better athletes than the others though?

[Keaton]

I thought the same thing myself.

Of course you would have to test it under a constant, possibly having one team play against another team (although always the same team against the same team) like, say, nine different times.  Three without any music, three with energetic music, and three with soothing music.  Then, take the averages and see if there's any correlation.

That's the only scientific way to go about it.

[Zelda Veteran]

Music definitely alters moods, and changes you. Its a powerful thing that goes beyond our own comprehension. Like who decided that a certain frequency could evoke the "scared" emotion? Like the music to "The Exorcist" or "Signs". It just clicked as an eerie type of music.  

[Keaton]

God, I loved the music in Signs.  Who could've known that three simple notes could be so emotionally evocative?