How Does Music Effect State of Consciousness?

[Realms of Wonder]

There are a LOT of ways to see Music, one of which is as an agent or medium through which consciousness can be altered, (similar to a psychedelic.)

 

In your direct experience, how have you seen the music you listen to, effect you consciousness?

 

Why do you think that is?

[puporing]

It's a reflection of yourself...(ones you strongly gravitate to). Like "coming home" over and over again. Like realizing your true nature in a more subjective sense.

Edited July 8, 2022 by puporing

[Max_V]

I find it excellent tool to explore and integrate different perspectives into your own. 

[Asayake]

I think music is one of the infinite forms of love. It reveals the beauty of anything it comes into contact with. If I'm sad and put on music it can help me to realize the beauty of the sadness I'm feeling and thereby altering my state of consciousness.

So I would say yes, music can transform a state of meaningless sadness into a state of meaningful sadness for example, thereby altering state of consciousness. 

Edited July 8, 2022 by Asayake

[The Mystical Man]

Dr. Hawkins said that music takes you out of the linear and puts you into the non-linear. 

Edited July 10, 2022 by The Mystical Man

[Realms of Wonder]

On 7/7/2022 at 11:34 PM, puporing said:

It's a reflection of yourself...(ones you strongly gravitate to). Like "coming home" over and over again. Like realizing your true nature in a more subjective sense.

Very interesting, thank you

[Realms of Wonder]

On 7/8/2022 at 3:37 AM, Max_V said:

I find it excellent tool to explore and integrate different perspectives into your own. 

Well said! 

 

Some songs seem to bring whole new sides to a story, add an emotional element, or be with us through the exploration.

Edited July 9, 2022 by Realms of Wonder

[Carl-Richard]

Music was my daily meditation before I knew what meditation was.

[Cthulu]

Certain sounds and patterns of it can take people into mystical states. Their is an entire branch of yoga called nada yoga. Or union through sound. Roughly.

 

Edited July 9, 2022 by Cthulu

[Osaid]

It's really weird. I feel really high and happy listening to music, it amplifies emotions in a really enjoyable way, but its just sounds arbitrarily put together. It doesn't make sense why I would enjoy it, but I do anyways, there's no reason or logic to enjoying it, it's primitive in that sense. What's even weirder is that our brain has this capacity to enjoy music, like why did we even evolve to enjoy music? 

Music seems to detach me from my old confined and limited perspective. It adds "intelligence" or "emotion" to my experience, and those didn't previously exist in the experience. Music doesn't require any logic or reasoning to enjoy, so it's a very pure and intuitive form of enjoyment. You enjoy music for the sake of music, not some for some ulterior goal or motive in the future.

[SamC]

After I was rejected by girls, and I mean by the girls I liked but friendzoned me my go to was always to listen to super sad heartbroken music together with more hopefull tunes after I had finished crying.

The super sad music helped me cope, understand and reflect + help me feel seen and understood while the hopefull music then made me riae up on my feet. I was going to find a girlfriend Lmao

Music for me in otherwords first shifted my conciousness by allowing me to be seen by the music and then after that letting the music lift me up. For me that's two different types of music, but that at the same time is the same.

I call it melancholyhope, for me that's the yin and yang of music.

Edited July 9, 2022 by SamC

[Realms of Wonder]

On 7/9/2022 at 0:57 PM, Carl-Richard said:

Music was my daily meditation before I knew what meditation was.

Interesting!  

22 hours ago, SamC said:

After I was rejected by girls, and I mean by the girls I liked but friendzoned me my go to was always to listen to super sad heartbroken music together with more hopefull tunes after I had finished crying.

The super sad music helped me cope, understand and reflect + help me feel seen and understood while the hopefull music then made me riae up on my feet. I was going to find a girlfriend Lmao

Music for me in otherwords first shifted my conciousness by allowing me to be seen by the music and then after that letting the music lift me up. For me that's two different types of music, but that at the same time is the same.

I call it melancholyhope, for me that's the yin and yang of music.

Music to process, music too heal, music to break, and music to feel. LOVE IT!

 

melancholyhope = You

[Realms of Wonder]

23 hours ago, Osaid said:

It's really weird. I feel really high and happy listening to music, it amplifies emotions in a really enjoyable way, but its just sounds arbitrarily put together. It doesn't make sense why I would enjoy it, but I do anyways, there's no reason or logic to enjoying it, it's primitive in that sense. What's even weirder is that our brain has this capacity to enjoy music, like why did we even evolve to enjoy music? 

Music is interesting in that way, why is it enjoyable? What makes it a part of almost every culture EVER? very interesting stuff.

23 hours ago, Osaid said:

Music seems to detach me from my old confined and limited perspective. It adds "intelligence" or "emotion" to my experience, and those didn't previously exist in the experience. Music doesn't require any logic or reasoning to enjoy, so it's a very pure and intuitive form of enjoyment. You enjoy music for the sake of music, not some for some ulterior goal or motive in the future.

I LOVE The way you articulated that!