In the Instructions it is stated that listening to music while listening to the subs is fine (or even better).
I’ve been listening to the same playlist mostly while running the subs.
Today I listened to the playlist without subs and still got a feeling of euphoria and goose-bumps from it (I mean the songs are good, but not THAT good).
Did it condition my mind to that music in regards to the subs?
Anyone else having similar effects?
Long ago when I used to use YouTube subliminals with music, I often found that listening to the songs from the subliminals themselves also made me feel like I was getting results.
For example: a certain sub I used to alter my personality had the song disturbia (cover by the sequence), however, whenever I listened to the song itself, I still felt the changes happen.
I hypothesized that it’s more like a connection our brains make with those songs, as in you’re allocating those feelings you get with the songs too.
Try this experiment out and tell me how you feel: watch compilation videos or like AMVs (if you’re into anime), then see how those videos make you feel, watch multiple to really note down everything you feel and every thought you get, then try to listen the songs from the video after a while
This is a known phenomenon.
Is is not so much that the mind is conditioned more that the same rural pathways get fired.
Highly possible.
While experimenting on Paragon when it first came out; I would listen to a specific song before starting my playlist. After a while, and still on going, whenever I listened to that song, I begin to remember the effects of Paragon: the copy page, the period of journaling and the effects from which. Certainly such thinking and feeling that arises must have some sort of energy.
I bring this back for another reason:
How LOUD can I hear the music?
As in, when music is off I hear the subliminal track pretty quietly in the background. When I run the music, I don’t hear the sub track at all. Does it still work?
Or should the trickling water at least be barely noticeable consciously?
I’d probably say it’s still working. Your subconscious mind can still hear it in my opinion. I’ve had music play over and the only time I could hear it was when the music stopped and I used it this way for WANTED which I got great results from.
I remember reading years ago (forget which book) about some researchers who gave a spoon of cod liver oil to people as they got their drugs administered via IV.
Over time, they found that just having the cod liver oil caused the same markers to show up in the body as when the drugs had been administered!
Anything is possible.
Pavlovian Conditioning? 
Sorry, couldn’t help it after reading @Kerrd654 latest journal entry.