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Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music

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557 points gnabgib | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 00:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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adzm ◴[28 Aug 25 03:55 UTC] No.45048209[source]▶
Personally I like to think of breathwork as another form of music, or rather that music and breathwork are all rhythmic stimulus with similar and complementary effects. Add dance to this as well. One of the big draws of EDM and trance and tribal music is the incessant rhythm of music and dance.

The altered states from uninhibited dance really seem to be underappreciated.

Along with rhythmic visuals and lights, and things like binaurals etc, the common trait is the rhythm.

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Cthulhu_ ◴[28 Aug 25 11:56 UTC] No.45051066[source]▶
I really wonder where this came from, evolutionarily or culturally, since it seems that only humans seem to have a response to rhythm. Some of the more talkative birds seem to as well.
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1. giraffe_lady ◴[28 Aug 25 12:09 UTC] No.45051179[source]▶
IIRC rhythm perception is extremely sophisticated in terms of brain function, involving several regions working together in complex ways. It's built on the functions we use to model movement through space and has a timing-based prediction component plus of course the auditory processing. I don't know enough about it to confidently say but it seems reasonable to me that most animals simply don't have the prerequisite gear.