Is it me or does music sound a lot better when you’re high? (The science behind it)

Hippies love it, old Sufis preached it, rappers repeated it like a mantra. Each of these groups had their choice and their style of representation, but they all agree on one truth about cannabis. These groups believe that marijuana improves listening to music and takes the entire experience to another level.

Cannabis has helped many great minds better appreciate and understand music. It helps astrophysicist Carl Sagan fully understand the principles of counterpoint and harmony. It also helped Norman Mailer eventually take jazz.

Indeed, cannabis and music are a heavenly connection. They mix together like peanut butter and jelly. Each one is great in itself, but when combined, an experience of pure bliss is achieved. In some situations, you can even start to feel or hear your favorite songs in a new and different light when you are high. You will notice different features, the artistic craft, how the sound mixes and warps, melodies that you did not notice before the experience.

But why is it like that? How is it that music and cannabis go so well together? Well, the reason for this unique experience has so much to do with how music and cannabis interact with our minds.

Cannabis and music

To understand how music and cannabis work together, we must first look at how they individually stimulate the brain

Music in the brain

Music, a mixture of frequencies and vibrations, not only stimulates the brain, but the entire central nervous system. Surely a song has different elements and facets that stimulate your nervous system and your brain at the same time.

Scientific research has found that music stimulates the brain to release dopamine. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that enables people to feel good. In this way, your brain supports the satisfaction that comes with listening to music.

To this end, music plays a very important role in lifting mood and relieving anxiety. Music can also go a long way in improving mental strengths like alertness and memory. Many people don’t realize that our brains go out of their way to make music understandable and understandable. Spotify, the most widely used music streaming service, now also has playlists based on cannabis themes.

Every song contains different elements and our brain has to analyze these elements and combine everything like a puzzle. This helps establish a regular exercise for our brain that allows us to connect deeply with music.

Cannabis in the brain

One interesting thing about cannabinoids is how similar they are to the molecules found in our brains. THC in particular is very similar to a type of neurotransmitter in our brain. So when a large amount of THC is consumed, it can work very close to these neurotransmitters. This causes them to work differently than they normally do.

One critical way that THC affects these neurotransmitters is by preventing them from taking a break. Under normal conditions, neurotransmitters fire and then pause to prevent any specific brain activity from becoming excessive. However, consuming THC causes the neurotransmitters in certain areas of the brain to pause. This causes some brain activities, especially our thoughts, to drift for a while longer than they normally would.

If you’ve ever been fixated on one thing high, this is why. It can be helpful if you write down these thoughts and come back to them when you are sober. This is one of the reasons working on creative and imaginative projects helps build that high.

In addition to this, cannabis also makes the brain work more to keep you happy. It works with the brain to process various emotions and increase positivity. In response to various emotional stressors, cannabis also helps reduce negativity.

In addition to this, marijuana also causes the brain to release dopamine, like music, and also increases norepinephrine levels. In this way, cannabis develops a strong sense of bliss and thrill in consumers. Much like music, the mood-lifting effects of marijuana are usually compared to a runner high

Why music sounds better when it’s high

It has now been found that both THC and music trigger numerous reactions in the brain, including the release of extra dopamine.

With the combination of both powers, your brain is always happy when it is high and listening to music. Hence, you may feel like this is the greatest feeling you can ever experience. That makes music and cannabis a kind of power couple – they work together to empower each other as best they can.

Because marijuana affects the brain in such a way that a user can be fixated on a particular thought longer than normal, users can stick to a certain aspect of the song that they like the most. It can be said that cannabis affects our perception of time and the speed of our internal clock. Hence, this gives increased hearing to a cannabis user who listens to music. This allows the music to be enjoyed in greater detail since the user has “more time” to examine the musical elements of a song.

And with so many elements to enjoy in a song, music often has a deeper and stronger meaning when heard at high volume. THC gives the music that extra feeling of ecstasy and vice versa.

Of course, the brain has already linked listening to music as a sensational activity. Adding cannabis to the combination only takes the feeling to a whole new level. In fact, when you are high on cannabis, you may notice an increase in sensation in other activities that you do. Some streaming services now have marijuana-themed playlists that you can click and just enjoy.

Conclusion

Several reasons have been found to make music sound better at high volume. Some scientific and others superstitious, but whatever the reasons, we guess it doesn’t matter. The fact remains that music sounds better and more ecstatic when high, and there is a general consensus among cannabis users about this. So turn on the music, light a joint and enjoy the experience.

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