Does anyone literally *feel* music?

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To me, sounds have textures. I mostly feel them in my ears when I'm wearing headphones, and in my chest when I'm listening to speakers. Baritone sounds are irritating to me, as are high-pitched screeching sounds, because their texture is so rough or sharp. Different singing voices and instruments have different textures as well, but I can only feel it in the area of my ears and chest so I don't think it's synesthesia.

I feel music sometimes. It can be a neat kind of body buzz. Somethings wash over me, but mostly it's an under the skin type of chill that does not go through my entire body.

I feel the different types of music I like as I listen to it. Listening to the 60s British Invasion makes me feel young. German marches make me feel powerful. Hippie music makes me feel in touch because there are hippies of all ages living in Langley. Classical music makes me feel creative. I'm thinking of doing a drawing while listening to classical music for a couple of hours, just to see what happens.

Yes, if I'm trying to describe a piece or a genre of music I find myself describing the texture. For example I like crunchy, grating music, but I find smooth, slimy or creamy music very hard to listen to. This mirrors my likes/dislikes for physical textures, now I think about it lol.

I don't think humans have enough words to describe feelings/sensations.

I certainly experience some pieces of music where the sounds have a distinct... something. Tones folding over each other, walls of invisible colour, movements of sound. I don't have auditory-tactile synesthesia, but the louder the music, the more I feel it.

yes.The op and spock might have synesthesia via equating music to tactile sensation.

But then most humans must have some of that or radio formats wouldnt have labels like "smooth jazz", or "hard rock", or "soft rock" (millions use tactile sensation as a metophor for music).

I have a form of Synesthesia. I can "see" sound as a visual representation...often in my peripheral vision. Even "see" is misleading. It's more like "perception." As if the sound registers as a visual stimulus. Sometimes I like a song just because of how it stimulates my visual perception.

It's also why I hate noisy places and concerts. Every sound registers as something "visual," and it can range from distressing to disorientating at times.

Yes i get a couple of reactions. The first is certain music with a certain pitch creates a sound and feeling in my ear drum similar to that of pulling your thumb back over a tooth brush, if that makes any sense?

Number 2 is a shudder i feel when i think or if anyone mentions anything to do with a tooth brush or brushing their teeth. if i see someone brushing their teeth i squelch up internally like i just sucked on a lemon.

The third and this is by far the most predominant as it will happen well over a dozen times a day Is i get a sudden mini shudder and feel these tingly miniature bubbles flow as a wave from my head right through my body down to my legs and will fizzle in my legs for a few moments before slowly dissipating, this lasts for a few seconds in total and feels rather nice .. I have never managed to find a direct source of the trigger and when it happens i try to take in what i am doing that exact moment and many times it seems of nothing of significance. I do realise i experience this with certain music and certain frequencies, but i can also experience it while sitting having a coffee.
Sometimes i will experience two or three over a short period of about ten minutes. It doesn't feel like its just tingling on the skin as it feels deeper than that.
If someone saw me shudder and asked if i was ok, i would just reply that someone just walked over my grave as that is what i have seen and heard people say when they get a shudder.. However a conversation of this came up not so long ago and we all explained how it felt, as i was listening to everyone i realized what i felt was totally different and nice. When i explained i got a funny reaction and everyone mentioned that was not something they felt at all. Someone mentioned it was Synesthesia but at the time i only thought it was related to seeing colors when hearing music but when i looked into it it seems to cover a number of areas of which i seemed to relate to a few but the tingling sensation i get daily is definitely the one that sticks out the most with myself.....


I call it a Braingasm