Effect of music upon you - As an Aspie

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I listen to a variety of music, to give myself the fuel, that I need to keep going. I'm more able to keep a clear mind, when I have music playing. I like a vast variety of music, that was recorded, between the 1920s, and today.

I love music also, it's like it transports me out of myself; it makes me feel joy. I love Il Divo and the song you placed on here by them. Another favorite is "The Canadian Tenors" singin Leonard Cohen's "Alleluia" with Celine Dion on Oprah. I'm sorry I wasn't able to upload it but if you enjoy Il Divo, I'm quite certain you will also enjoy this group.

Addictive for sure. It's 4:28 in the morning now where I live, and I listened all night to music. Simply couldn't stop listening.

as long as i can listen to it without breaking the radio...

my thoughts/mood seems greatly influenced by music

what ever the mood of the song my thoughts will start to turn that way

Music elevates my mood and soothes me. I sometimes get tense if I've gone too long without listening to it, and when I finally put my headphones in again and the music starts, I feel relief wash over me. However, it only makes me feel good if I'm in a neutral or otherwise positive mood. If I'm sad or angry, music tends to make it worse. If I'm anxious, it has no effect on me.

I noticed that, for the most part, I tend to gravitate towards music with simple, repetitive beats and catchy lyrics. That's why my favorite genre is dance/electronica. I like a lot of dance/electrnica songs from foreign countries; most of them come from Sweden or Denmark, and I have a couple from Germany. I also have some Japanese pop and rock (J-rock and J-pop), mostly out of nostalgia from my days as an anime geek. Every once in awhile I'll find a slow song that I really enjoy, such as "Prayer" by Hayley Westenra or "Lilium", the opening theme to the anime Elfen Lied (which doesn't sound like an anime theme at all, but something you'd hear in an opera house). Those two songs, among a handful of others, send chills down my spine and give me goosebumps, so I save them for when I'm feeling particularly melancholy or deep in thought.

Music is what changes my mood. It invokes electrical feelings in all of my physical self. In a way it is re-energizing.

Also, my thoughts seem to travel by musical echo.. My attention encoding seems to be driven by musical echo, that is. I hear a piece of music, and it repeats. That is, whatever I've listened to recently will keep on going for a long time. It might eventually change, but this is unpredicatable. This thread of echoing is beneath any literal internal dialogue or external stimuli layers.

Synesthesia?

Here is another example of beautiful music. This one is by one of my favorite groups - Pink Floyd. I love these colors ( I know I must sound like a hippie..the colors man...dig those colors ). Vibrant, luminescent, and translucent colors are what I really LOVE. Each color has its own flavor and feeling. I am sure many of you will agree. I like being alone much of the time (other than being with my family). At work, I often have the opportunity to be alone, as I work nights. I hear songs like this one in solitude...I think we all crave a certain amount of sweet solitude.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He_QSkxoC0U&feature=related[/youtube]

Guess I'm the only one here who dislikes listening to music.

Whooh dude...(sorry...that's the California in me speaking )...you don't like ANY music...even after listening to Pink Floyd??? With Jimi Hendricks in your signature?

Is it due to sound sensitivity? I guess there are people who don't like some sort of music...I've just never heard of them. Even...no...especially when you are melancholy, there is something there for you.

Please try this...it is different from the animal beats present in modern music. It is a classic and it bespeaks of beauty and purity. My pulse and blood pressure just drop when I hear this. I hope you just haven't
turned away from music because of some bad experience associated with it. It speaks of the condition that makes us all human. It sings to our soul about all that is good and beautiful in life. It sings of hope and changes how you relate to the world...how you feel. It amplifies the good sensations that we experience (in me...but in so many others I am sure) from all of our senses...colors become so vivid and real...they take on a life of their own...you can feel...you can feel their flavor deep within....the imagination becomes free to fly...the air becomes delicious...touch goes to your soul and moves rhythmically in time with the music...with the right music. Please don't give up on one of the great pleasures in life.

Although you may not like this....keep trying...start with this though...please.



[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woF0w2NIrwo&feature=related[/youtube]

No, I'm there with you. I may not be to the level as you, but I do not have much of a fondness for music. I use it for background -- and will listen to OST's if anything. As far as contemporary music of any sort, I very infrequently listen to it. I like my silence and only use music to drown out other noise. Music is more structured than the noise people around me make and thus I prefer it better.

If I'm going to listen to music, though, I tend to listen to the same CD over and over and over again until it becomes background. Even then, it's almost always non-verbal based music. If anything, I'll listen to music with lyrics if it's in a language I don't understand.

My good friend is a Composition and Conducting majour. I have to say my tolerance for music might be a result of her influance.

Music helps me get into my own "world" I guess, where basically I daydream and think of how I think things should be. My tastes for music evolve over time. I love to drive while listening to music too

AOR was a big part of my life . Nowadays I'm getting to a point where I don't think I can listen to a song as much as I use to.

However, I listen to music to parallel my own moods. I've been listening to the Dropkick Murphys' "The Meanest of Times" lately, and man it is a good album. I've got some frustrations with life myself and what has been going on, so I feel kind of a connection with that album.

Alrighty, I watched the video. I could feel my sensory cortex tingling while I listened to it, which can be fun.

To elaborate, I find music very distracting, regardless of the volume. I spend much of the day just reflecting on various things, and music interrupts that and makes it more difficult to day dream.

If I want to listen to music that means that is all I'm going to be doing, I have to clear my mind and just concentrate on the music. Because if I'm trying to think about something I just find the music annoying and don't enjoy it at all.

Occasionally I'll get in a mood where I want to listen to music, and I'll listen to one or two songs, then I'm good for another few months.

So, it is in part a concentration issue, and in part a sensory issue. Given the choice between music and silence, I will always choose silence though.

Also, I don't have the strong emotional connection and pleasure derived from music that you are describing and that so many other people seem to get. It is just noise to me, sometimes pleasant noise if I'm in the mood, but generally just distracting noise.

It actually hinders my imagination, clogs my thought processes, inhibits my concentration, and I don't get any more emotional connection to it then I do listening to a construction worker use a jack hammer to tear up concrete.

Here is a song I like though, it is my ringtone actually, and it is one of the songs I listen to when I feel like listening to music:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0-gmTOcmNw&feature=related[/youtube]

Oh, and as for me having a Jimi Hendrix quote, I just like the quote. I couldn't care less who said it, but I give credit where it's due.

Woohoo! A Corrs fan!

Music is important to me, because sometimes I'm going through a rough period in life and I feel that music is able to provide better therapy than talking to a friend.

After my first serious relationship breakup (she cheated on me with my friend), I was devastated and found solace in country music:

Brad Paisley "Letter to Me" (sorry I can't hotlink yet -- I still have newbie privileges)

I highly recommend country music to Aspies, since some of us have difficulty understanding lyrics when the vocalist wails out a lyric, or slurs his words to match the tune of the instruments. I always prefer to watch movies with subtitles if it is available. Whereas normal mainstream music has cryptic and fast lyrics, country musicians tell a story in a slow musical pace. They enunciate every word and it's not often I have to look at the lyric sheet.

Ok...I see it is time to pull out the big guns here.....People...you can't tell me that this song simply doesn't make you float in body and mind. Listen in the dark and let your mind go free. A classic from Pink Floyd.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlY-JlE5ZCo&feature=related[/youtube]

I love music. I love to listen to it when I walk home from work especially so I dont have to listen to the crazy people in my town as they drive by or walk by lol. Music helps me escape from the world. It helps me think and most of all helps me when I am mad or upset or happy and I love to listen to a song while doing something and then hear it again and remember what I did it helps me remember. I especially loved playing the flute in band or singing in chorus the only 2 classes in school I ever enjoyed.