✦Description
Music is performed AT the experiencer: a choir swells on arrival, a being sings directly into them, the whole place turns out to be mid-concert. Lawrence 2022 coded dancing, singing, or partying entities in 7.1% of encounters; Strassman's session notes include otherworldly, choir-like music; in McKenna's telling song is the local technology — objects are sung into existence. The ayahuasca parallel is exact: icaros are songs as instruments of the encounter.
✦Interpretations
Experiencers describe being tuned or healed by the sound; researchers point to strong auditory-visual synesthesia in the state (Davis 2020: 54% auditory involvement) without settling who, if anyone, is singing.
✦What the sources say
Dancing, singing, or partying interactions coded in 122 encounters (7.1%).
Auditory sense involved in 54% of encounters (after visual 92% and telepathic 85%).
Objects 'sung into existence' — song as the realm's working medium.
Icaros: the shamanic use of song to conduct the encounter, offered as comparison.
Questions
What is 'The Serenade — being sung to' in DMT reports?
Music is performed AT the experiencer: a choir swells on arrival, a being sings directly into them, the whole place turns out to be mid-concert. Lawrence 2022 coded dancing, singing, or partying entities in 7.1% of encounters; Strassman's session notes include otherworldly, choir-like music; in McKenna's telling song is the local technology — objects are sung into existence. The ayahuasca parallel
Is 'The Serenade — being sung to' commonly reported?
Dancing/singing/partying entities in 7.1% of encounters (Lawrence 2022, n=122); auditory phenomena involved in 54% of Davis 2020 encounters. Choir-on-arrival reports are a recognizable minority strand.