How does music effect you?

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I prefer silence most of the time, but on those rare occasions when I do listen to music, it is nearly always instrumental. I like Celtic music. It's themes seem to do that "fill the room" thing for me. I get lost in it. The emotions are so deep and powerful.
If I turn on the radio (only in the car), I listen to 70's soft rock. It's what I grew up with, so I guess there's a comfort factor playing into that choice.
I also have quite an extensive collection of Christmas CDs, but again, my favorites are instrumentals.
Lyrics in any kind of music distract me. I have never been able to work, write, or study to "background" music with lyrics. It doesn't stay in the background for me; the lyrics work their way right into whatever I'm doing and annoy the heck out of me!

Lyrics in any kind of music distract me. I have never been able to work, write, or study to "background" music with lyrics. It doesn't stay in the background for me; the lyrics work their way right into whatever I'm doing and annoy the heck out of me! [/quote]

me too.

also, i cannot believe that someone can say they like a piece of music, listen to it regularly but have never listened to most of the lyrics and have not thought about what the song is about. i remember the first time i heard the beatles song 'you'd better run little girl' my boyfriend at the time didn't understand why i found the lyrics at all disturbing. i am far too sensitive sometimes.

i like music with funny lyrics, my current favourite listening is 'cassette boy & dj rubbish'. or else most music i llike is very heavy and angsty.

Often times before I really knew what stimming was and could connect it to my calming down (so basically when I was in HS and before that, note I did stim back then I just didnt know why I did so whatever) I would listen to music of all various types to give me something to help relax my mind, I still sometimes do that when its clear that stimming alone wont do me any good.

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I know that music has in many ways has come to rescue me. I don't how to explain what I mean by rescue me but when I put on some up beat music when I was really down and depressed it really comes as a surprise to me how it brightens me. As you know I'm a big lover of Final Fantasy series music but what you might not know is how I pick out of music out. I mostly find my next favorite group by a movie soundtrack. Others I found liking by watching and listening to a music video that's been made by Final Fantasy fans. I found listening to a woman sing is really comforting. Now when I'm down I don't always find music that gives me a boast but sometimes I use music to express how I'm feeling when I can't get the words out. Music and lights have strange affects on me for some reason.

Even though I've been exposed to a VERY wide variety of music styles growing up, I cater mainly to electronica, and amibient music. I avoid excessive cussing, because (I believe) it represents a lack of vocabulary, and intelligence. I don't think it's really hard to find the common sense needed to replace a cussword, with something that won't piss off your Grandma.

For me I find myself graviting to darker sounds, not morose so much as stuff that just feels deeper and more spititual than other stuff (at least to me anyway). I also love textures of sound, sounds that weave in and out frequncywise to where they're drawing a very kinetic imagry in how they arc, cut, twist, writhe, wobble, etc., and another thing I can't get enough of is a lot metallic shingy resonance noises (though not choppy, more like when they just bleed in). The lovely thing about really thick muddy and distorted basslines that twist up or, when I was a kid, really deep and low-end metal guitar riffs is it hits me in a tactile sense and feels like it's just washing over me - it's like I hear stuff like that in ways that most people would need to be on E pills to feel. Another thing that people might think is kind of strange, I really love beats which have elements that are really hectic, almost seem patterned-to-confuse, and end up breaking a beat into two layers where if you listen to one exclusively the other messes with you or if you listen to the other out o its context the bass beat gets thrown. Turntable noise is also good, in addition to dark and agressive sounds I also like stuff that has a lot of 'soul' to it melodically which ends up making it funky as well as hard-as-nails. As far as sounds that are mellow, jazzy, and atmospheric I like those too when done right (I saw LTJ Bukem last night for instance with MC Conrad and I really like their stuff, most of the Metalheadz tracks I like are also mellow and jazzy but also with the right kind of deep and mildly eerie 'make you think' feel to them).

Good themes do a lot for me and that's also where samples come in, you can have a real serene kind of melody going on, maybe a tad eerie, but put a sample in from a movie with some real dark significance to where the whole track just gives you the evil chills (but, definitely in a good way).

The funny thing is I'm not purely addicted to electronic, I definitely like and include in that a lot of the right kinds of alternative and industrial, there's definitely a lot of hip-hop I'm really into, and as surprising as it might seem there's spots where pop can hit me the right way. What really seems to matter to me most though is the feel of the music, the energy, and I'll admit I tend to be pretty specific on what kinds of emotional energies in music that I like, which I'm indifferent to, and which turn me off - enough to where its not genre specific.

The way music effects me though is its like an emotional vitamin, I'm constantly either using it to lend me certain emotional energies that I can't find within myself at that time being and want or alternatively a lot of times when I'm in an intense emotional state that's kind of on that deeper edge I'll play something that seems to be a really great sonic depiction of that feeling itself. I'm also one of those people who gets what a lot of people consider 'dark light', rolling arround on a very sunny early-spring day where everything feels great and listening to the right kind of dark jungle actually amplifies that happiness or enjoyment of the weather, hammers it in even deeper, and I'm glad I'm usually driving by myself during those times because most people would be complaining nonstop that they want to listen to something that sounds upbeat and happy.

generally music makes me feel happy and relaxed, but sometimes when my head is funny it can make me feel manic and fuzzy in the head(the best description) and i have to turn it off. I also don't like music loud in general, and don't like it when people feel the need to turn the bass up

I love loud music, especially trance.
But also some other types as long as they have a good beat.

Don't like metal much, because to me it just seems like a bunch of savages screaming without a proper beat.
Whoever screams the loudest seems to be the most popular metal band.

Music really seems to have a positive effect on me.
I feel like i have so much energy and wil do alot of sports.
On some songs i manage to do alot more situps even though it hurts like hell after a while
I can't really stand silence and i wil get bored to death by it.

(i love that "dark light" description techstep - reminds me of the Congos/Lee Perry lyric "every morning the black sun rise, out of the ark of the covenant"...)

Music is word, sound and power. Music is one of the most fundamental things in my life - i feel it so deeply that i feel like i'm committing a blasphemy or hurting its "spirit" if i turn off a track before it's finished (hence i have been known to delay leaving my house or let food burn in the oven because of having to listen to the whole of a piece of music)...

my screen name comes from the form of God in Hinduism who is the god of music - Shiva literally dances the universe into existence and the beat of his music is the universe's never-ending creation and destruction (see also the Christian/Gnostic idea, as used in the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, of God singing his creation into existence). when i am out at a rave or in a club with the purpose of dancing and with the right music, i feel like i literally become "possessed" by the music, losing my human self and my normal perception of time and experiencing/"becoming" the rhythm as connection with or integration into the universe... weed or alcohol *can* help with this, but are not necessary (i've never tried E but i think it's the same for me as techstep says...)

i even time things like cooking to music, i think in terms of "fry this for a couple of tracks" rather than say 5 minutes... if i don't have music playing while doing anything except something (like reading a novel or watching a film) which needs my total concentration, i feel like i'm half unconscious...

conversely, how deeply i feel music makes it almost unbearable for me to be in the presence of cheesy, banal or soullessly commercial music... supermarkets and shopping centres are hell for me because of this... and certain songs that most people would just find mildly annoying or depressing can make me feel seriously suicidal if i don't get out of the room...

dancing is stimming for NTs

I'm addicted to music. Most of my stuff is either energizing stuff that a lot of you don't seem to like (Hard Rock mostly, I guess), or calming. I basically listen to the many different kinds of Rock and Electronic, mixed in with some Old School Rap, Classical, Jazz, and random other stuff. I don't like Country and most of the music you hear on the radio. Rap today sucks, but there's some good stuff out there. Oh yeah, on topic.

I listen to music for lots of different reasons, usually as background music. When in certain moods, I sing along while on the computer. My love for singing is the main reason I like certain bands, I have fun singing along ot them. I also have kind of a weakness for female singers, for whatever reason I think they sound better, it could transcend from some everyday issues. I like to have the music playing flow from one genre to the other. I have a few few hour long playlists that span the bulk of genres I have on my computer that I make on the fly sometimes. I listened to music 7 hours straight yesterday, and it had variety. Althought I like to use music as background sometimes, I can't really focus on homework with it on. For homewrok, I can only really listen to Drum and Bass music. That's really the only kind of music that I can "lose myself" in most of the time. Well, that and Depeche Mode.

OK, I'm done.

DANCING!! ! I also dance to my music. It's total flailing, the pefect stim, and people love it.

I pretty much have my headphones on all the time when I'm not at work or actively involved in something at home. I listen to everything from Gregorian chanting to the kind of music they'd play at Japanese circuses in hell. Except American rap. I don't care for American rap at all.

Music's great because it blocks out all the cacophony of the world around me and takes me elsewhere. It's like a drug that boosts my imagination.

I listen to a wide range of music, mostly heavy and completely underground, ranging from metal to gothic to darkwave to industrial to experimental to ambient. I avoid most forms of top 40 music, and despise the commercial nature of MTV and its brethren. NTs seem to depise most of what I listen to!

Listening to really abrasive and heavy music has a calming and sometimes mesmerizing effect, especially when dancing or headbanging to some really intense stuff. Other times, throwing on a noisy soundscape, say Merzbow or Masonna, has a more mesmerizing effect.

I crave stimulation in many ways, and I tend to use music as a way to release pent-up frustrations. It's been quite a journey to fully understand the nature music has on my psyche, for I have found that meltdowns have subsided a lot after releasing pent-up frustrations in this manner. I feel relaxed, sometimes tired and weak a bit, after truly dancing rabidly to intense music and indulging in the visionary soundscapes it provides.

I can't concentrate when listening to music, because I get too absorbed. So, I like quietude when the need for concentration arises. While listening to music, my mind generates visual patterns, usually psychedelic in nature. Other times, I delve into the depths of inner imaginary words of desolation and disfigured landscapes. I strive for the mysterious and dark worlds that it so generates. It brings a breath and a sigh of relief to experience a world apart from reality. It's the ultimate escape.

- Ray M -