anybody with Stendahl's Syndrome? [weeping at beauty]

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You might be on to something there. I can't remember ever crying during a straight-up horror movie but I cry during pretty much every other movie genre. Whenever I want to watch an "easy" movie, I usually choose a horror, which I think most people would not consider casual viewing. Never thought about my reasons behind that but what you said makes sense for me too.

I sometimes cry over something I find very beautiful or touching in some way, even if it's a work of art or music, but I wouldn't say I have that syndrome. I'm just a very emotional person.

I respond emotionally to beauty in music (not so much anything else), but nowhere near to the degree described in this thread. From the outside, it would be difficult to notice.

Also

Oh my God; it's one of the other 2 people on the planet who realise that that piece has 3 movements!
The 2nd movement is my favourite of the 3.

Certain songs, definitely. And it's the songs themselves, not time and place memories associated with them.

Also, things which are both lovely and simple ('innocent' I suppose). I think I get tearful over naive, childish things sometimes because I wish the world could be a happier and simpler place. So children's books and Pixar films will set me off.

i can not see beauty. it is a concept which i do not understand.

i can see things that i love. i very much love my innocent animal friends, but it does not matter what they look like. i love them fully anyway.

Beauty is relative. I think you could watch their animal nature and be filled with the same sensations. It's a sense of awe when observing things most people don't notice. I don't know why they have to make this a syndrome, unless you're incapacitated by sunsets and good music.

Isn't this just normal?

Interesting, auntblabby, I've never heard of this. You might want to check this thread - Mesmerised by beauty

While " magnanimous, outstandingly grand" things don't impress me much, beauty (especially music or visual) has a very strong impact on me. I often feel overwhelmed and shaken and sort of shut everything else out to handle the emotional rush. I don't weep, but I very, very rarely do.

As with 'love', the idea that there are things which are 'beautiful' represents a mystical, foggy outlook on life.

If I may say so, it is also quite ignorant to believe in such fantasies and fairytales, for behind the most meaningful art there are usually the most squalid, human, all-too-human faults.

^ Of course it's ignorant - intelligent, mature people just deny the existence of anything they are not capable to feel or experience themselves. View also known as solipsism.

Isn´t this pretty normal??
Maybe some people are more like this than other, but there are so many people like this, or am I wrong?
It´s similary with me, I often burst out in tears because of hearing a beutiful song. It´s funny, when I l lie in bed (trying to sleep) and hear music, I am all churned up inside, and the whole pillow is wet. Or I see a person who I think is beautiful (not the looks, it is just a feeling), and i can look at him (never a woman) for hours and cry about this beauty.
But I weep easily and often, I think it´s just that.

There are some books and movies which I can't verbally describe to people without breaking down. For example, I still can't talk about the movie "The Boy In the Striped Pajamas" without bursting out in tears.

But that wasn't so much a "beauty" issue - more that it make a very deep emotional impact on me.

I do not cry or anything like that when a I see/hear something beautifull (or very rarely), but I do sometimes have very intense feeling with such things.

I know there is peoples who collapse when they see The David of Michel-Ange, as they never see something so beautifull in their culture. They all from USA.

I'm trying out an experiment in 'mental toughening up' - because it seems to me that being emotional (being an emo ) doesn't get many people far in life. Laughing, possessing power, possessing drive and enthusiasm and dedication, exuding confidence, taking refuge in materialism, and refuting anything that causes mental conflicts - the overcoming of sentimentality and emotional vulnerability and replacing it with a positive appreciation of art that sparks enthusiasm for life and hope and not retreat into fantasy - I'm almost becoming Nietzschean here.

Ok, that makes sense. As someone raised to believe showing emotion is a sign of weakness I understand where you're coming from.

I don't necessarily agree with your view, but I can respect it - learning self discipline and restraint is an excellent exercise that would benefit many. Just be careful not to go to hard against your nature, extremes are dangerous and tend to take their toll later in life - Nietzsche is actually a pretty good example for that.

Thanks for the clarification - I thought you were just trolling

Hmm well