With midterms hanging over Auburn's campus, many library dwellers look for ways to deal with the stress.
Some turn to illegal substances to get high, and now there's an app for that.
i-Doser, available in the Apple app store, boasts the ability to synchronize brain waves to alter a user's state of mind.
Customers can purchase different sequences that will give them the experience of a lucid dream, out-of-body experience, insomnia or the highs related to taking Absinthe and other drugs.
Aaron Swenson, senior in geography and aviation management, bought the application for his iPod touch.
Swenson said his experiences with the app were not as intense as some users had experienced.
"I read all these reviews and stuff saying it was going to mess me up," Swenson said. "At best, I just felt mildly happier than before. Nothing trancy or crazy like other people and I don't know what they could have been doing different."
Swenson said he thinks part of the reason he didn't get the full effect could be he wasn't using high-quality over-ear headphones, as recommended by the app's developers.
Using binaural beat technology, the tracks purchased induce the brain to experience euphoria, mood lift, sedation and even hallucination.
The i-Doser website, i-Doser.com, recommends playing the sequences at a soft, sothing volume as opposed to blasting it, although no certain volume should alter your mental state more than others.
"Someone told me I could hallucinate using this," Swenson said. "The reviews said to sit perfectly still and turn off all the lights. I felt a little better listening to it, but I don't see how people see stuff that isn't there doing it."
The website claims the application is perfectly safe and has been tested on a wide variety of people.
The site does warn, however, not to operate heavy machinery after long doses and to treat it with the same respect as a prescription or recreational drug.
"I definitely see where some people can be inpaired by it," Swenson said. "It made me feel kind of weird and dizzy once I got done doing all that."
The website also claims to have recieved many e-mails from users who use the app to intensify recreational drug usage or to deal with extreme bodily pain.
Swenson said he thinks he is not as affected by the app because of genetics.
"The site said certain people are affected more by it than others," Swenson said. "It also said something like if you take it more, you feel more intense highs.
"I don't know if that's true, but I don't really care enough to keep trying. I feel like I wasted my money."
Swenson said he doesn't think he will buy any more app that promise to do something for your body.
"I just don't see how my iPod can be used to affect me like that," Swenson said.
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