<p>If you take a look at this quick article: <a href="https://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/news/20150710/neuroscience-trance" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The Neuroscience Of Trance</a> or the full published study the article refers to: <a href="https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/26/7/3116/1745376" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Brain Network Reconfiguration and Perceptual Decoupling During an Absorptive State of Consciousness</a> scientists used fMRI to view what was going on in the brains of shamans as they either entered into a trance or purposefully stopped themselves from doing so while listening to drumming.</p>

<p>One of the things they noted was a dampening of the sensory pathways - there theory being that while the drumming beat was the most prominent external stimulus, it's repetitive and predictable patterns allowed it to be gated out/ignored while its ongoing presence prevented reorienting to the usual random environmental distractions. </p>

<p>I would expect the music your listening to is doing more or less what the drumming does for the shamans.</p>

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<p>What's the scientific reason behind it?</p>

<p>I can't quite figure out what's around me and it feels so soothing same as the effect of meditation. It feels like an enlightenment.(I feel like I'm connected to a higher deity)</p>

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# Why do we sometimes(i often) go to trance while listening to music?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-01-11)

What's the scientific reason behind it?

I can't quite figure out what's around me and it feels so soothing same as the effect of meditation. It feels like an enlightenment.(I feel like I'm connected to a higher deity)

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### Answer by username_1 on 2019-01-11. Score: 1

If you take a look at this quick article: [The Neuroscience Of Trance](https://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/news/20150710/neuroscience-trance) or the full published study the article refers to: [Brain Network Reconfiguration and Perceptual Decoupling During an Absorptive State of Consciousness](https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/26/7/3116/1745376) scientists used fMRI to view what was going on in the brains of shamans as they either entered into a trance or purposefully stopped themselves from doing so while listening to drumming.

One of the things they noted was a dampening of the sensory pathways - there theory being that while the drumming beat was the most prominent external stimulus, it's repetitive and predictable patterns allowed it to be gated out/ignored while its ongoing presence prevented reorienting to the usual random environmental distractions.

I would expect the music your listening to is doing more or less what the drumming does for the shamans.

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