Why is it that we are able to feel music more, when we close our eyes?

Perhaps it’s a personal preference? Maybe if you close off one of your senses, you can concentrate more on the others?

I myself don’t really mind whether or not my eyes are open.

I find the same thing. I think our eyes, or technically our visual senses, are so dominant they tend to drown out the other senses. Try listening with a blindfold sometime so you don’t have a choice. It’s pretty wild.

Vision is such an over powering sense that it dominates other sensory experiences when it is present. I’ve been reading a book about a blind French Resistance fighter and he details the level of perception that increased in his other senses after he went blind.

Because we are blocking out the sense of sight. We are over powered in all the stimulus that vision brings into our brain.
Shutting that out allows our brain to focus more on the sounds and then allow our feelings to be more one with the music.
Its similar to how much more focused you can be while listening to music with headphones. You block out other sound stimulus.

I generally agree with and have nothing fresh to add to the above answers.

This question makes me wonder, if we plug our ears, will we be able to see sights better?

When one of the human bodys senses fails, the other senses take over.

You can shut your eyes and your sense of smell magnifies.

A good example is shooting targets at a gun range. By inserting ear plugs into my ears and losing most of my hearing, my eyeseight seems to take over and the targets appear to be much clearer.

I was taught this in junior school (age 8) that when one of our senses are disabled, the other’s become enhanced or gain more focus. That’s why blind people are such fantastic listeners and deaf people have brilliant focus on those quick and fluent sign language speakers.

We were also taught that when we are around 40–50 years old all our senses begin to decline, which scared me at the time.

When all of your senses are online, your attention is split between them. When you remove one from the equation, the extra attention goes to the rest of them.

Because we are not distracted by what we are seeing and can focus on our own inner landscape more.

Shutting your eyes blocks out color, movement, and objects in view and allows the sound to have your full attention. However, when I shut my eyes while concentrating on music, I often see things in my mind. But what I visualize has to do with the music in some way. It may be dancing or scenes or something unexpected. This is mostly true when I listen to classical music with no vocal,

defensive reaction: if you can’t see you are vulnerable i think this would mostly make you “feel” the music more.
it is commonly displayed, that closeing your eyes helps you focus or do better, which acordingly makes common habbit
a habbit like closing your eyes will form similar experiences and in order for a habbit to form you have to choose to repeat it so some sort of desirable property (like a certain experience of music) must exist, which will probably intensify with continuation of the habbit. you will adapt, consciously or not, to get what you want. you could possibly get to feeling a need to listen with your eyes closed
certain ways of focusing can alter your sensory experience not so much volume as understanding “you find what you’re looking for”

Probably because you can just think of the images in your head and like process the music and all the notes and stuff. :)