Kind of trance that can be experienced by music listeners that lowers the threshold of belief required to open to the diegetic world. It can provide a suspension of the real over the imaginary, emotions over rational.
Characteristics:
- Sets the emotional bath in which the story resides
- Can improve the context understanding through unconscious perception
- Can also mislead the audience
Related induced effect: Anempathetic sound
Related inductor effect: Impact of musical genres; Emotional inventory
Opposite effect: Empathetic sound
(Sonnenschein, 2001)