Does anyone literally *feel* music?

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All this rather gives new meaning to the timeless Boston hit

More Than A Feeling

I can hear/feel/see/taste? it now......

I sometimes feel some music. I'm glad I can often influence how intensely I experience the sensations. Some music can make me want to cry, and they play some of those songs at the grocery store, and I'd prefer not to cry at the grocery store unless absolutely necessary.

The feelings with good music tend to start around my stomach or my heart and I can let it wash all over me. Some songs will have the effect for decades. I like the energized feelings from the new version, Fraktured, more than I enjoy the more contemplative original King Crimson song Fracture. I listened to Funkadelic's Maggotbrain a few days ago and wept through the entire song, although I associate it with various adult activities. It seems to work like an emotional enhancer.

I guess my synesthesia starts with tactile sensations which have associations with emotional states, and they interact to form my unique experience of hearing a particularly effective song. I bet the musicians who make such songs have a similar experience.

By contrast, I saw and heard Hailee Steinfeld perform Starving on Jimmy Fallon. She made me feel stuff, too, but I don't expect that song to work as well for a decade without her performance. Maybe, though. I did feel like it solidly delivered on a simple premise on all levels, including my tactile experience. Pop songs often do that, though, but don't seem to last. I wonder if it relates to hitting a single area of feeling really hard. For me, pop songs usually work a few times, but don't have the durability of a more complex sensory expression like a 15 minute instrumental song. I don't intend that as a critique of pop music, since it works well doing what it does and there's always a new sensation coming along.