[eswat]

This only works for me in certain situations and I’m not sure why.

If I’m in a coffeeshop and there’s a hum of noise I want to drown I’ll listen to some music. AFAIK I have no problems focusing or collating the text while doing this.

But if I’m at home, where there’s no noise other than occasional traffic, and try to listen to music, I tend to lose focus and seek to multitask with something else. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’m thinking it’s because my mind is looking for a mellow state to get into while reading a book. The music in the coffeeshop example ends up just being whitenoise but becomes more of a conscious burden when I’m already in a quiet environment. This behaviour is also very different if I program, where listenin to music always seems to put me in a the right state.

[omarsamfirst]

I kinda feel that state every once in awhile, maybe there are just particular moment in time where brain can interpret all those chunks of information together with active music playing on the side.