Truly inspirational thread, Thank You!
I've never expressed these experiences to my friends, I'm not sure they experience music on this level. I have never heard or read in this case, of people enjoying what is for me, the ultimate endpoint of musical enjoyment/interaction.
For me, I feel this deeper, as someone above described, "visceral" experiencing of music, is a reconnecting to something we as a modern society seem to have lost; a connection to something ancient, from a time when the human race was not fixated on superficiality, and more the pursuit of inner enlightenment, and knowledge. To a time when, to quote a book, can't even remember what book it was, but this line has stuck in my head; "When we all lived in the forest, and nobody lived anywhere else...."
Thanks again, this has made my day.
Respect!
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At its best, music is a language. Proper reproduction of it makes it easier to understand & enjoy. Synesthesia has been described by both John McLaughlin and Robert Fripp, and experienced by composers Messiaen, Skryabin, and Liszt, along with others. Some say it is related to perfect pitch: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3596158/
Your point about music being a language itself is deep and the fact that language is music itself go even deeper.... Thanks very much for this paper which confirm my experience and intuition.... Me deepest respect.... |
I was seeing sounds and music one time in Bellingham. Turned out it was the tea. Exceptionally good psilocybin up there. |
I am lucky then.... No need of psilocybin...
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While I have experienced visual synesthesia from music, for me it is more often physical sensations, experienced as though in the body. Not movement per se, but physical sensation with emotional content attached. Not easy to describe.
Great thread. |