Do you think your reaction with music is atypical?

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25 Jan 2013, 11:21 pm

I'm starting a new topic because I don't want to hijack another thread I was reading/replied to.

Does anyone have an odd or atypical reaction to music?

For example, when I have a song stuck, I only get a few lines stuck at a time. I can't, for the life of me, get an entire song stuck in my head, and I think most people can. I used to get a few notes stuck in my head in fourth and fifth grade, but not anymore. Paradoxically, I find "external music" to be soothing, and "internal music", if persistent and loud enough, to be quite annoying.

I also have a relative who is pretty autistic--autistic enough to make it obvious that he's disabled within a few moments of meeting him--but he only needs to hear a song only once to memorize it.

I think, outside of someone being severely to totally deaf, or someone with a decent level of central auditory processing disorder, someone not liking or being indifferent to music would also be considered having an odd reaction to music, because most people who can perceive music seem to like it.

Anyone else have an atypical relationship with music?

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25 Jan 2013, 11:23 pm

My father is tonedeaf and does not enjoy music.

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25 Jan 2013, 11:46 pm

i have stendahl's syndrome and some music can make me weep.

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25 Jan 2013, 11:50 pm

My lack of reaction to music is what is truly weird about me. I do not derive pleasure from music like most people

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26 Jan 2013, 12:29 am

Music is such a deep part of me that I often dream about it. I dream I play it on a stereo, or play it as a band member, or write songs. Just last night, in a dream, I had an argument with a band member about song structure! I told him that Led Zeppelin's 'D'yer Maker' had a similar chord progression and I think he saw my point. This was just a dream. Can you imagine?

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26 Jan 2013, 12:32 am

redrobin62 wrote:

This.

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26 Jan 2013, 12:41 am

auntblabby wrote:

i have stendahl's syndrome and some music can make me weep.

I don't know whether it's stendahl's syndrome or not, but I too can be moved to tears by some songs.

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26 Jan 2013, 2:04 am

FishStickNick wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

i have stendahl's syndrome and some music can make me weep.

I don't know whether it's stendahl's syndrome or not, but I too can be moved to tears by some songs.

with me, it could be even a happy-sounding thing like a march, that turns on the water works. but some musics are so grand [ultra-beautiful] that they make me flush, get short of breath, heart pounding/sweating, agonized weeping.

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26 Jan 2013, 2:24 am

Yes. It's one of the most powerful things I know. And my heart rhythm easily matches up to the musics rhythm, after talking about it with my partner and discovering his do the same I decided to google it to see if it was a recognized thing and voila:

http://www.theheart.org/article/982997.do wrote:

Music, particularly pieces that contain crescendos or gradual increases in volume, elicits synchronized cardiovascular and respiratory responses in young people that are similar in both musicians and nonmusicians, according to new research
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Although musicians tended to have a greater response than control subjects to more "intellectual" music, for the most part, the cardiac profile of musicians was the same as that of nonmusicians. "Everyone tended to respond in the same way which suggests that whether you like it [the music] or not, these particular tracks have an effect that is common to everybody," said Bernardi.

As for respiration, there tended to be a correlation between music and breathing. For certain pieces, the respiratory signal closely tracked the amplitude of the music "envelope," indicating that the depth of respiration could be influenced tightly by music, at least during crescendos, said the authors. Musicians had a somewhat higher correlation for some musical pieces than nonmusicians.

ETA: One of my kinds of synesteshia is patterns and colors with sounds, even though my usual thoughts are more like video. I guess that is atypical? Also yes to the crying, sometimes, even though that happens with other beautiful things too. I like that there is a word for that.

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26 Jan 2013, 8:28 am

I like music, but unless it has words in a language I understand it's just random background noise to me.

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26 Jan 2013, 9:46 am

The only time I listen to music is when I'm working out or driving.

Beyond that, I couldn't care less about music.

Some music even makes my physically nauseous.

Most other people I know are obsessed with music. I have no idea why. It's just a bunch of weird sounds to me.

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26 Jan 2013, 10:02 am

I almost never listen to music.

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26 Jan 2013, 12:08 pm

Ettina wrote:

I like music, but unless it has words in a language I understand it's just random background noise to me.

I agree, and if I can't relate to or understand the song lyrics the song means nothing to be either, so I find myself listening to alot of odd alturnitive stuff. I also find the difference between soothing and sensory overload is a very thin line. In general I love music and have a very deep intrest in it once sparked by a very small group of artists.

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26 Jan 2013, 9:44 pm

Ettina wrote:

I like music, but unless it has words in a language I understand it's just random background noise to me.

That's probably the most typical reaction so far. :wink:

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26 Jan 2013, 9:48 pm

The fact that I can listen to the same song over and over again for an hour or so at a time probably means that reaction to music is a bit unusual. I used to do it for longer but for some reason it's not as appealing as it used to be.

I've been playing and replaying the same pieces of music over and over again on youtube today.

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26 Jan 2013, 9:51 pm

Verdandi wrote:

I do the same thing on occasion--replay a song two or three times.

I used to play the same Holly Near song over and over again. For some reason, her duet with Mercedes Sosa on "They Dance Alone" gave me the goosebumps, and there were two other songs on the same live CD that I liked.

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