Hallucinations caused by iPods

Podupdates, which is a pop-over laden sister site to PSPupdates, is running a story from vnunet that discusses the recent studies of a Welsh psychiatrist by the name of Dr. Aziz. Dr. Aziz claims that some iPod users are experiencing "musical hallucinations."

According to the article, Aziz is focusing on something we all encounter from time to time: getting a song stuck in our heads. The point of his studies seem to indicate that the increased exposure to and availability to songs via technologies like the iPod where songs can be looped over and over for hours on end can result in a heightened version of this where the song won't go away and people begin to hallucinate: "People find they can't sleep and can't think properly . . . Having a song in your head every now and then is quite normal, but musical hallucinations can be quite distressing."

As a Scientologist and devout follower of the sci-fi teachings of L. Ron Hubbard*, I think this is absolutely absurd, and I hope you will join Tom Cruise and myself in decrying Dr. Aziz.

*Note: I am not actually a scientologist. I do think this study is absurd, but I also hold the same opinion of Oprah-couch-jumping Tom Cruise.