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11 Dec 2010, 8:58 pm

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The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, and David Bowie were great musicians?

To each, their own. :cool:

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11 Dec 2010, 10:21 pm

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I've always loved music and through the years have been obsessed with great musicians like the Beatles, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Radiohead + many, many others. Six years ago, when I reached 30 I purchased the complete organ works of Bach & piano sonatas of Beethoven. Some of these works caused an intense and somewhat bizarre sensation in me which I will explain below.

I knelt before the speakers, my eyes rolled back in my head and flickered, I began retching profusely & pulses of euphoria raced up my spine & flowed into my now tingling brain, my muscles went into spasm & my body curled up into a ball. It was as if my mind could not keep up with the complexity of this magnificent sound that was being force feed into me. I played it over and over again laughing hysterically 'How could a human being write this?' I kept saying to myself.

This only lasted a few days. I still get tingles & often cry when I hear emotive music but nothing like that. The only reference I have ever heard of regarding this phenomenon is from the film 'A clockwork orange' where the protagonist 'suffers' a similar experience listening to Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Does anyone know what this sensation is called? or what it means? I also experience visions when I listen to some classical music... generally patterns in nature like ocean waves, rain or storms, spiders weaving webs, animals in motion etc & sometimes dentritic or spiraling patterns forming in an outward projectory.

the visions are synesthesia. the rest is called Stendahl's Syndrome, of which not a lot is known. i have it and so does one of my nieces.

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11 Dec 2010, 10:23 pm

There was a time when every time I heard a certain song it made me depressed, just the music nevermind the lyrics (sad as well), and I tried hard not to think about it.

Plus, some songs make me feel a way which I can't describe, but fits my mood at times when I feel somewhat overloaded. Don't know how to describe either the feeling or the music. But I feel when listening like I can just freeze, and this music is everything that's moving inside me. And don't ask me what it means, I don't know myself.

Example is In Utero by Nirvana, many songs in this album could fit how I felt when I saw someone that I wanted with another person. Can't describe either the feeling of the event, the music, or the way the music made me feel in light of it. There somewhat phsyical/phsyiological about it, however.

Some songs/tunes can make me smile, or feel in some way, but I don't think it's only for Aspies.

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12 Dec 2010, 12:47 am

Mineral is a band that will just make me cry. They are a sad band but it's the music that gets me. I've been meaning to to an experiment and listen to them when my mood is neutral or even happy to see what happens.

Mostly when I listen to my favourite artist I feel a rising heat in my chest. Then it's rising in my throat. Then a pressure in my heart. Sometimes it goes all the way into my head and it feels light.
There's a couple songs when I listen to them and I'm immediately taken back to the night when I saw the band playing them live.
And there's this one band will I will more likely have my temporal lobe seizure-like symptoms (this is repetitive autistic-like symptoms but uncontrollable, as well as strange emotions and hallucinations) at their show than any other band. It must be my emotional attachment to this one band. Although it has never happened with any other band I know. I thought it was because of the stage lights or just another shutdown, but it's more automatic than that.
Actually, I don't even need to see them live to get that reaction. It happens when I just listen to them on my computer.
Btw the band is called You Am I.

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12 Dec 2010, 1:17 am

I can feel music over my body. Sometimes my eyes feel like they want to roll up.

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12 Dec 2010, 1:28 am

Might be unrelated but when im alone enjoying my playlist while driving i get an odd tingle all over the top part of my arms, shoulders, cheecks and head. It usually reminds me im enjoying myself too much.

New avatar being from one of the songs, +1 rep if you can guess what song it is.

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12 Dec 2010, 11:11 pm

One of my gifts is my ability to really hear music and all its parts clear as a bell. I can always tell when the tone or pitch is off. I have had sensory overload when listening to some music before.

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13 Dec 2010, 12:38 am

ediself wrote:

i've had something that relates to that. when it happened, i posted the video in question in the music section, to see if anyone experienced the same thing, but i was alone

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZWV2M0oWzI[/youtube]

nothing as intense as what is described in the first post, but i get a strange euphoric almost numbness or physical high type reaction from some music, especially when listening with headphones. it's like the opposite of a headache. it's pleasant but can be almost impossible to bear. i get very lost in it. most aphex twin and a lot of radiohead songs will do it. the song you posted does it. it could be a migraine aura for all i know. some aphex twin songs make me nauseous and i can only listen to them partway through.

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13 Dec 2010, 2:14 am

There was a time about 20 years ago where I was rather hypersensitive to music. Music would influence my mood to the extreme in the manner that the song writer intended it too; television too. Two songs in particular had an extreme effect on me.

The first was "Where does my Heart beat now" by Celine Dion. When I first heard it on the radio in July 1991, I was like - "hey! this is kind of a catchy song" and I would find myself turning up the stereo in the house when it came on. But then three months later something happened and one day when I heard it and suddenly I started to cry really hard. This happened to be at a school function and I had about 50 other eyes staring at me when I broke down. After that happened every time I heard the song I would tear up and I would do my damnedest to get the song out of my head.

Shortly after the above incident, I noticed that Mariah Carey's "I don't wanna cry" had the same effect on me and that quickly became another song I had to avoid.

Head forward to Feb. 1992 - I'm playing Mario 3 and I get the idea to use two warp whistles in succession and I find myself in world 8 for the first time. Holy crap if I didn't crap in my pants when that stage music came on. I had to turn off the Nintendo and run up stairs to try and calm my self down.

As quick as this all came on it ended by the end of the year I could play through level 8 no problem and listen to mariah and celine with out a problem.

This freaked me out like nothing had before
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA6xrfUb06E[/youtube]

Couldn't listen to this song at all for a while
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE75JIPnEas[/youtube]

... Or this song
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsjjhK1dv9Q[/youtube]

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13 Dec 2010, 2:30 am

macrent2 wrote:

One of my gifts is my ability to really hear music and all its parts clear as a bell. I can always tell when the tone or pitch is off. I have had sensory overload when listening to some music before.

I can do that too. Once there was a band that was really out of tune. Was torture waiting for them to be over.

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13 Dec 2010, 8:46 am

auntblabby wrote:

silver22 wrote:

the visions are synesthesia. the rest is called Stendahl's Syndrome, of which not a lot is known. i have it and so does one of my nieces.

Thanks for your input. Stendahl's Syndrome does seem to fit the picture, and yes there is very little information about the subject. Almost all the references I have come across refer to it being triggered by visual stimuli. Was your (or your niece's) reaction induced by music if you don't mind me asking? I do get Stendahl's Syndrome often from seeing immense natural beauty or other forms of art but the sensation is quite different than that caused by music. Music seems more intrinsic.

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13 Dec 2010, 12:54 pm

silver22 wrote:

Stendahl's Syndrome does seem to fit the picture, and yes there is very little information about the subject. Almost all the references I have come across refer to it being triggered by visual stimuli. Was your (or your niece's) reaction induced by music if you don't mind me asking? I do get Stendahl's Syndrome often from seeing immense natural beauty or other forms of art but the sensation is quite different than that caused by music. Music seems more intrinsic.

music is the leading instigator of my symptoms, as it is for my niece. even thinking about some music makes me react. but the waterworks [and flushing, shortness of breath, pounding heart and perspiration] will also commence when i see or even just think about a magnanimous behavior of another sentient being. if is just as though my homeostatic system has a very low threshold of emotional overload. sentimental things in general, "send" me.

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13 Dec 2010, 7:29 pm

The simplest way to describe it is perhaps a differential in sensory perception. When I asked NTs if music sounded "wide" and exciting to them, they said that it wasn't the case with them, unlike me. It's like you are being sent to an unknown destination every time, which is the source of excitement I get often.

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