What is your preferred posture for enjoying your favorite Headphones ?

[Earwax]

ATH M50X headphones
Galazy A52
USB Audio Player Pro app
Fosi DS1 DAC

Lying in Bed ready to sleep lights off, that is the 1st time these headphones truly impressed me.
But while listening to Rob Thomas All That I Am or was it something to be...
I`ve never heard this song with a sound stage the music was from Infront behind and side to side it was perfection !

I did listen to a couple song prior, 316 and Radio gaga might have helped me relax and focus my full attention...

So obviously I`m going to continue this routine for a week and report back my experiences.

I tried listening to the same song sitting up with lights off today but it`s not even close to the same experience just flat no sound stage.

Interested to hear if others have had similar experiences, I used to meditate years ago training my body and mind to be still and quiet to help with a sleeping issue that it cured... so curious if I`m the only one benefitting from this position fully relaxed lights off with headphones on.

 

[Earwax]

Update I was unable to reproduce this sound stage last night.

Possible my hearing was impacted from food as I have noticed over the years, it can be very noticeable changes depending on amount of sugar and or carbs...

Could also have been AI teasing me to provoke my interest in chasing higher quality items

Ether way I will report back when or if I'm able to reproduce that experience.

 

[Barrelhouse Solly]

Flat on my back. To be fair I listen to music from speakers this way too.

 

[EJ3]

Flat on my back. To be fair I listen to music from speakers this way too.

I wear headphones only under duress even though my Sennheiser RS 220's (wireless) are pretty comfortable.
But I do listen to speakers when doing things (or not doing things), as well as when I am laying on the couch or bed (flat on my back, too).

 

[Soandso]

Lying down lowers the level of cortisol which is integrated within the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis of reactivity. Music listening in the short term is often itself associated with reduced cortisol. So when lying down and listening to music, rather than sitting up, our background cortisol in the short term is one of the lowest during that time of our own usual individual 24 hour (diurnal) cortisol cycle.

However if we are preparing to go to sleep for the night and undergo long term listening to music and are none-the-less lying down we can "fatigue" some brain synapses due to our augmented repetitive attention to musical details. This increased neural activity has the potential to be challenging and elicit some new cortisol, despite any prior short term reduction, as a normal coping adaptation of fine focus. There seems to be a non-linear dynamic at play and not an either-or independent relationship; something akin to listening fatigue.

We may still fall asleep during listening long term to music yet our initial natural sleep cycles of oscillating brain waves occur within the context of extra induced cortisol. I usually find myself waking up in a few hours and either repeatedly drifting back to sleep still listening or eventually removing the headphones for resuming sleep. The issue is that although nightly we normally go through multiple sleep brain wave oscillatory cycles and wake up (whether we recall doing so or not after completing a sleep cycle) the influence of cortisol on any single particular cycle can alter the normal (ideal) time spent asleep in some specific sub-set of our sleep brain wave oscillatory phases.

In a prior (2024) post I mentioned how focused long listening to music before going to sleep could lead to waking up less rested than otherwise. I'd read research of increased cortisol from this lingering for about 1/2 to 3/4 of an hour and now I usually stop listening to music about 1 hour before intending to sleep. I can not rule out confirmation bias but think in the morning I get out of bed more refreshed with this strategy.

 

[EJ3]

Lying down lowers the level of cortisol which is integrated within the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis of reactivity. Music listening in the short term is often itself associated with reduced cortisol. So when lying down and listening to music, rather than sitting up, our background cortisol in the short term is one of the lowest during that time of our own usual individual 24 hour (diurnal) cortisol cycle.

However if we are preparing to go to sleep for the night and undergo long term listening to music and are none-the-less lying down we can "fatigue" some brain synapses due to our augmented repetitive attention to musical details. This increased neural activity has the potential to be challenging and elicit some new cortisol, despite any prior short term reduction, as a normal coping adaptation of fine focus. There seems to be a non-linear dynamic at play and not an either-or independent relationship; something akin to listening fatigue.

We may still fall asleep during listening long term to music yet our initial natural sleep cycles of oscillating brain waves occur within the context of extra induced cortisol. I usually find myself waking up in a few hours and either repeatedly drifting back to sleep still listening or eventually removing the headphones for resuming sleep. The issue is that although nightly we normally go through multiple sleep brain wave oscillatory cycles and wake up (whether we recall doing so or not after completing a sleep cycle) the influence of cortisol on any single particular cycle can alter the normal (ideal) time spent asleep in some specific sub-set of our sleep brain wave oscillatory phases.

In a prior (2024) post I mentioned how focused long listening to music before going to sleep could lead to waking up less rested than otherwise. I'd read research of increased cortisol from this lingering for about 1/2 to 3/4 of an hour and now I usually stop listening to music about 1 hour before intending to sleep. I can not rule out confirmation bias but think in the morning I get out of bed more refreshed with this strategy.

Interesting info.
I would not be lying down more than a song (possibly 2). I do not stay still that long.
And I would never think to do it within an hour of bedtime (which has no schedule for me), so only gets planned about an hour & 1/2 ahead of time.

 

[Klonatans]

Walking. Always.

 

[muza_1]

Walking/running.

 

[EJ3]

Walking/running.

I run, if someone is chasing me.

 

[Jimbob54]

That is entirely your mental state . When I am relaxed and the headphones are comfy you kind of sink into the music rather than be listening to the music on headphones. Especially if your breathing is steady, lower lights etc

Similar affect to what cannabis can do

 

[swamps]

When I'm lying down sometimes the music can feel almost palpable, but only for a while. After long enough this feeling goes away so it's definitely a mental state thing.

I don't think I'll ever buy a desktop amp because I'm either lying down, very comfy on the sofa or I switch to TWS on the go.
Bless these dongles with a stupid amount of juice.