Why do you listen to music? Are you after an altered state?

December 7, 2006 by nasymphony

Everybody listens to music. Why?  Because you like it? It makes you feel good? It gets your blood flowing, it relaxes you, or maybe it raises your consciousness? 

I’ve always been into music.  I couldn’t get enough of it. I had to make it and I had to listen to it. It altered my physical and psychic state. Sometimes I actually believed I got it.  An experience that was beyond the body and the brain.

Eventually I became very interested in what actually happens to us when music enters our space.  Does it have a scientific explanation? Or who cares?

A lot of people are after experiences where they experience and don’t think. They just are. Music has the ability to take you there……..

 Some musicians say that their best performances have been when they don’t remember where they are or what they have just performed. They were in another zone. What is that zone?

I’d love feedback on this subject.  Thanks!