Music played during psilocybin sessions typically progresses from low-volume instrumental classical music to intense percussive music, then softer melodic music with nature sounds.

“the music that's played at the beginning of the psilocybin session tends to be music that doesn't have a lot of vocalizations, it tends to be things like classical music, it tends to be fairly low volume. But then transitions into music that has a lot of percussion. So often drums that tends to be higher volume, that has a lot of intensity. At about the time that one would be experiencing the peak in emotion and perception, that so-called peak of the journey. That intense music tends to be played for about 45 minutes to 90 minutes, depending on the study one looks at. And then tends to transition into softer music, again. Sometimes choral type or more melodic music, often female voices in particular, and then transition into nature sounds and things that more or less mimic the outside natural world and less so synthetic things like drums, or instruments, and vocalizations, and things of that sort.”