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To “become” means to change from one existence into another. “Becoming the music” describes a subjective sense in which a person fully resonates with music. It is often enhanced by, but does not require, psychedelic drugs. Here, I claim this remarkable transformation is enabled by the trust we place in music as an honest signal, a reliable expression of another’s affective and motivational state; by entrainment, a biophysical process by which rhythms influence each other; and by music’s semantic indeterminacy, its lack of “aboutness” compared to spoken language. Starting with Lett’s notion of psychedelic listening as an attitude of not knowing, of openness to transformation, I use ideas from Cross, Langer, Stern, Meyer, Huron, implicit relational knowing and predictive coding to outline the relational dynamics of listening to music as an experience of intersubjective resonance, of opening towards another. Becoming the music is an illusion of complete resonance with the subjectivity of another.