Why I hate stereo surround sound

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When I listen to stereo music using headphones, I feel as if my head is spinning around. It's bizzare to describe. It feels like I'm listening to two different people, one talking in my left ear, the other in my right. All the nuances of the music is lost to me.

I make my music mono if possible, everthing sounds more coherent to me.

Clarifier here: stereo sound is two channels (left and right); surround is usually five or six (sometimes more). That said, do you get the same disorientation from speakers, where the sound is more spread out?

Same here. I grew up on mono. It was nice.

The same thing happens to me with surround sound. The action is happening on the screen in front of me, but i hear sounds from the left and right, its an odd feeling.

Movie sound is an obsession of mine so I love it. The important thing is that the sound is mixed well: surround sound sound (usually three screen channels, left, center, and right, and two surround channels, left and right, plus a subwoofer) is supposed to mimic how sound works in real life. We receive in stereo, and our minds process the channels for added depth and direction. If the film mixer knows what he or she is doing, that's what movie sound will feel like. Well, with music and stuff added.

If you put sound in the surround channels just for the fun of it, without any reason or logic, anyone could get dizzy, not just aspies, even though we're probably worse off there.

You probably wouldn't like "Dark Side of the Moon" on headphones.

I'm fine with normal music on headphones, but I have the same problem with those "3D Virtual Surround Super Spatializer" things that are built into some stereos along with a lot of sound card and media player software. They typically operate by inducing a delay between the left and right channels to create the perception of wider stereo spacing. It just makes the music sound artificial, weird, and poorly positioned to me.